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• Title:Algebra and the elementary classroom : transforming thinking, transforming practice / Maria L. Blanton ; foreword by Megan Loef Franke.
  
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• Author/Creator:Blanton, Maria L.
  
• Published/Created:Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, ©2008.
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QA159 .B53 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Algebra--Study and teaching (Elementary)
  
• Description:xiv, 209 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-203) and index.
  
• ISBN:0325009465 (paper)
  9780325009469 (paper)
  
• Contents:Sect. I. Nature of Algebraic thinking
  1. What Is Algebraic Thinking?
  Sect. II. Changing What I Teach
  2. Generalizing Arithmetic: Finding Algebra in Arithmetic
  3. Functional Thinking in the Elementary Grades
  4. Building Functional Thinking into the Curriculurn
  5. What About Children's Arithmetic Skills?
  Sect. III. Changing How I Teach
  6. Teaching Practices That Develop Children's Algebraic Thinking Skills
  Sect. IV. Changing Where I Teach
  7. Algebraic Thinking Across the School Curriculum
  8. Algebraic Thinking Across the School
  Appendix A. Selected Word Problems and Solutions
  Appendix B. Answers to Selected Teacher Task Questions
  Appendix C. Answers to Selected Think About It Questions.