Negative Numbers –– a Collection of Exercises: Teacher Workbook
The negative numbers represent a central theme in the 7th-grade
curriculum that ought not to be reduced to the application of
poorly-understood rules of calculation but rather should challenge and
support the students/ forces for thinking and imagination. How can the
concept of this new domain of numbers be provided with conceptual depth?
Which attitudes and forces can be developed in the process?
Here
is a real gift to the teacher presenting negative numbers. It
represents a companion workbook to one for students which gives the
teacher a pathway to a creative presentation and rigorous approaches to
the conceptualization and application of negative numbers in
mathematics.
The exercise book for the students contains a rich
spectrum of the most diverse problems that on the one hand support in
an exemplary way skill acquisition concerning a variety of different
thought forms, while on the other hand continually stimulate reflection
on one’s activity. The teacher’s book contains the solution to all
exercises (including an explanation of the solution path), a didactic
exposition of the theme, as well as hints for possible ways to organize
the instruction (either as the main lesson or otherwise).
Waldorf Publications
113 pages
Full Color
8.5 x 11