Getting the Buggers to Add Up

Equips teachers with a number of strategies for improving pupils' mathematics and problem-solving skills in the classroom. This book attempts to show how active learning, equipment-based and surprise perspectives can bring mathematics alive. Offering tips and advice on various aspects of teaching mathematics, it is of interest to maths teachers.

1. Introduction; 2. What is mathematics, why teach it and why learn it?; 3. Strategies for teaching mathematics; 4. Mathematical surprises; 5. People-math; 6. Using practical equipment in mathematics classrooms; 7. Mental mathematics; 8. Mathematics across the curriculum; 9. Teaching mathematics through 'real-life' contexts; 10. Mathematics and ICT; 11. Planning a scheme of work on pedagogic foundations; 12. Managing a mathematics classroom; 13. Developing students' thinking skills; 14. Teaching mathematics without a textbook; 15. Mathematics and... 16. Daring to be different; 17. And finally... everything is connected.