Teaching Mathematics to the Disadvantaged Child.

Mayberry, Claude

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Publication Date: 1977

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Teaching Mathematics to the Disadvantaged Child

Mayberry, Claude

Education for the Disadvantaged Child, 3, 3, 2-9, Spr 77

Notes that attempting to teach formal mathematics to disadvantaged children, before they have mastered the four operations on whole numbers, only frustrates them and turns them off to mathematics early in their school life. (Author/AM)

Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Mathematics, Mathematics Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction, Models, Relevance (Education), Teaching Methods, Teaching Models

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