Big Ideas in Primary Mathematics

Many trainee teachers feel ill-equipped to tackle primary maths teaching and say that when they studied maths themselves, they resorted to learning rules and methods that they managed to carry out to pass exams, but didn’t understand. Likewise, many often feel they aren’t helping children to understand maths, but simply doing their best to teach children techniques that they are required to know. Sound familiar? Big Ideas in Primary Mathematics was written to address this very problem and will help you become clearer about what concepts and ideas are to be developed that will allow children both to complete the curriculum requirements and become mathematical in their thinking. Here are 9 Big Ideas to get you started.

Mathematical Understanding in the Early Years