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Young Children Continue to Reinvent Arithmetic---2nd Grade
Implications of Piaget's Theory, 2nd Edition
Constance Kamii
Early Childhood Education Series
Pub Date: November 2003, 216 pages
Paperback: $23.95, ISBN: 0807744034
Cloth: $52, ISBN: 0807744042
 
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Responding to their recent research on how children learn mathematics, the authors have revised this bestselling textbook to provide practical advice on what works and what should be avoided when teaching second graders. This volume features important revisions to their groundbreaking program based on Piaget’s theory that children learn arithmetic by constructing it from the inside, through their own natural ability to think. New for the Second Edition! - The harmful effects of teaching "carrying" and"borrowing"—compared with the results of encouraging children to invent their own ways of dealing with multidigit numbers.
- The addition of new games that respond to what has been discovered in recent research.
- A shift in strategy for doing subtraction with second graders—computational fluency de-emphasized in favor of word problems.
- The difference between repeated addition and multiplication for this age group and how teachers can respond appropriately.
- The harmful effects of "testmania" and quick fixes versus teaching based on the most recent scientific explanation of how children learn mathematics.
Constance Kamii is professor of early childhood education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her other books include Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic andYoung Children Continue to Reinvent Arithmetic—3rd Grade. Linda Joseph is now Principal of Gwin Elementary School in the Hoover City Schools near Birmingham. |
