Albert B. Bennett

This was a textbook that I purchased and used throughout two terms of college coursework that prepared me to be an elementary school teacher. I enjoyed the coursework, and found the work not to be lacking in rigor.

Now, as a teacher, I keep this book at home (it has not yet found a home in my classroom) but I do refer to it on a regular basis, when an ideas about math concepts pop into my brain at the oddest times. I check the concept in the book, develop instructional ideas, and then refer to other materials, generally the students' texts and corresponding teacher editions, but also anywhere else math realia can be found for classroom instruction. It is great point of reference to generate ideas around designing instruction.… (mehr)