Early Numeracy: Assessment for Teaching and Intervention [Paperback]

The assessment tools in this revised edition help teachers identify children's difficulties and misconceptions and become more skilled and confident in planning programs for intervention and monitoring children's progress.The assessment tools in this revised edition help teachers identify children's difficulties and misconceptions and become more skilled and confident in planning programs for intervention and monitoring children's progress.

Unlike many book based on research work this book doesn't just let teachers know what is going wrong with children'slearning it actually gives some practical advice about what to do next. The whole book is based upon extensiveobservation and recording of individual children and their difficulties with mathematics. These children are themost difficult to plan for in a busy classroom and the authors appreciate the small steps and the different learningstylesapproaches needed for these children. This approach fits well with the NNS wave and springboard materials but takesthe analysis of the individual's difficulties to a more detailed level. The book brings together research carriedout acrossa range of countries and therefore shows the versatility of the approaches taken. This will be a very useful bookfor trainee teachers as it exemplifies how to use assessment to feed into teaching. It will be helpful for classteachersand mathematics co-ordinators as well as SENCOs to assist in improving the teaching and learning for specificchildren in our schools'

- Mary Briggs, Primary and Early Years PGCE Co-ordinator, Institute of Education,University of Warwick

This is a highly practical resource that will be appreciated by classroom and specialist teachers alike. It willprovide teachers new to the Math Recovery program with practical help and support to diagnose errors andmisconceptions in early numeracy. Practicing Math Recovery SpecialistslS-