How The Brain Learns Mathematics Av David A. Sousa

<p><strong><em>To reach all your math students, use your brain—and theirs, too!<br/></em></strong><br/> The bestselling and award-winning first edition of <em>How the Brain Learns Mathematics </em>quickly revolutionized math teaching and learning. The second edition takes readers to the next level with new brain-friendly strategies backed by the latest research from education and neuroscience and even more ways to seamlessly incorporate what you learn about your students’ developing minds into your math classroom.<br/><br/> In this essential resource, you’ll discover the cognitive mechanisms involved in processing mathematical operations, while exploring the environmental and developmental factors that create learning difficulties.<em> How the Brain Learns Mathematics</em> also presents a unique and simplified four-step teaching model that relates students’ classroom experience to concrete, real-world applications. Features of the new edi