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Front Matter	i-xx
Executive Summary	1-14	(skim)
1 Looking at Mathematics and Learning	15-30	(skim)
2 The State of School Mathematics in the United States	31-70	(skim)
3 Number: What Is There to Know?	71-114	(skim)
4 The Strands of Mathematical Proficiency	115-156	(skim)
5 The Mathematical Knowledge Children Bring to School	157-180	(skim)
6 Developing Proficiency with Whole Numbers	181-230	(skim)
7 Developing Proficiency with Other Numbers	231-254	(skim)
8 Developing Mathematical Proficiency Beyond Number	255-312	(skim)
9 Teaching for Mathematical Proficiency	313-368	(skim)
10 Developing Proficiency in Teaching Mathematics	369-406	(skim)
11 Conclusions and Recommendations	407-432	(skim)
Biographical Sketches	433-440	(skim)
Index	441-454	(skim)

Description

Adding it Up explores how students in pre-K through 8th grade learn mathematics and recommends how teaching, curricula, and teacher education should change to improve mathematics learning during these critical years.

The committee identifies five interdependent components of mathematical proficiency and describes how students develop this proficiency. With examples and illustrations, the book presents a portrait of mathematics learning:

• Research findings on what children know about numbers by the time they arrive in pre-K and the implications for mathematics instruction.
• Details on the processes by which students acquire mathematical proficiency with whole numbers, rational numbers, and integers, as well as beginning algebra, geometry, measurement, and probability and statistics.

The committee discusses what is known from research about teaching for mathematics proficiency, focusing on the interactions between teachers and students around educational materials and how teachers develop proficiency in teaching mathematics.

Reviews

"Don't look away at the sight of 'mathematics' in the title: the audience for this book is as much outside its field as inside. ...this book provides a persuasive and well crafted synthesis of research, critically evaluated and revised through an extesnvie review process prior to publication..."
-- Cambridge Journal of Education, 2003 (Vol. 33, Nov. 2)

Authoring Organizations

• Center for Education (CFE)
• Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE)
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NOTES

  Also of interest, Helping Children Learn Mathematics.