RT Book, Whole DB /z-wcorg/ DS http://worldcat.org ID 927064311 LA In English. T1 How the brain learns mathematics. A1 Sousa, David A., YR 2015 SN 9781483368467 1483368467 AB This second edition includes includes new brain-friendly strategies to help mathematics teachers incorporate what they learn about their students? developing minds into the classroom. It addresses the cognitive mechanisms involved in processing mathematical operations, while exploring the environmental and developmental factors that create learning difficulties. The book also presents a simplified four-step teaching model that relates students? classroom experience to concrete, real-world applications. Features of the new edition include: more strategies for motivating adolescents; integration of the arts into mathematics instruction; new information on how technology affects attention and memory; and expanded sections on number sense and ELL instruction. [Publisher website, ed].