Measures and Handling Data: Activities for Children with Mathematical Learning Difficulties [Paperback]

Foreword, Introduction to the Series, Acknowledgements, Measures: 1. Teaching Time to Children with Mathematical Learning Difficulties, 2. The Passage of Time: Moving Through the Months, 3. The Passage of Time: How Months Follow On, 4. Telling the Time, 5. Capacity, 6. Cooking, 7. How Heavy are You?, 8. Measuring Your Body, 9. Measuring Length: Non-standard Units, 10. Measuring Length: Standard Units, 11. Measuring Lines: Standard Units, 12. Measuring a Greater Length: Non-standard and Standard Units, 13. Finding the Area: Non-Standard and Standard Units, 14. Maths Competition; Data Handling: 15. Sets and Sorting, 16. Sets and Sorting: Decision Trees, 17. Interpreting Data, 18. Probability, 19. Special Project: Time TravelFirst Published in 2003. This book offers practical advice to those students of maths who dont understand it and dont like it. The author asks So what shall we do about it? This is what makes her books so helpful; they give parents and teachers practical ideas they can use. First addressing the question of the types of difficulty encountered, she then moves on to overcoming the difficulty.USCopyright ? Mel Lever 2003