Mathematics for elementary school teachers (5th ed)

Intended for the one- or two-semester course required of Education majors, "Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers, 5th edititon," offers future teachers a comprehensive mathematics course designed to foster concept development through examples, investigations, and explorations.

Visual icons throughout the main text allow instructors to easily connect content to the hands-on activities in the corresponding Explorations Manual.

Bassarear presents real-world problems, problems that require active learning in a method similar to how archaeologists explore an archaeological find: they carefully uncover the site, slowly revealing more and more of the structure.

The author demonstrates that there are many paths to solving a problem, and that sometimes, problems have more than one solution.

With this exposure, future teachers will be better able to assess student needs using diverse approaches.