Maths

This is a list of introductory texts originally offered as a starting point to Maths PGCE students and useful for experienced teachers who want to improve their own practise.

If you have ideas about an issue that you would like to explore further within Maths teaching they provide a useful introduction and can help in directing you towards more specialist or focused literature

Haggarty, L. (ed)

Aspects of Teaching Secondary Mathematics
Routledge/Falmer, 2002
**Also available as an e-book

Hart, K. M.

Children’s Understanding Of Mathematics 11-16
Gardners Books, 1981

Mason, Graham & Johnston-Wilder

Developing Thinking in Algebra
London: Paul Chapman, 2005

Ollerton, M. & Watson, A.

Inclusive Mathematics 11-18
London: Continuum, 2001

Polya, G.

How to solve it
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1948