DEVELOPING MATHEMATICAL IDEAS 2009 NUMBERS AND OPERATIONS (PART 2) MAKING MEANING OF OPERATIONS CASEBOOK (Developing Mathematical Ideas: Numbers and Operations)

Participants examine the actions and situations modeled by the four basic operations. The seminar begins with a view of young children's counting strategies as they encounter word problems, moves to an examination of the four basic operations on whole numbers, and revisits the operations in the context of rational numbers.