Talk:Primary Mathematics/General Overview of the Teaching of Mathematics

= Beginning =

I have added this chapter in part because I think parents using this book need to understand what their children's learning environment is like. For this reason, each chapter in this book needs to give examples of manipulatives and/or incorporate the use of models in every chapter. Additionally, because the web of mathematical understanding is rather complex, a good deal of thought must be given to how to make the various "connections" that the different models support apparent, without too much confusion for the reader. Hopefully, editors will begin to develop a "format" for each chapter that can be outlined and explained in this "Overview" chapter. I'm not sure if this approach puts the cart before the horse or not, but after a few chapters (that address these issues) have been written, someone should come back to this chapter and updated it to serve as a guide to understanding those chapters, as well a serve as a template for editing of other chapters. Leightwing 01:51, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

It occurs to me that if this becomes a Course rather than a textbook that it might make sense to approach it as if it were an overview of Teaching Primary Mathematics for someone that wants to home-school their child(ren). In this way the focus would still be on the pedagogical approach, but the language would be directed at the "lay"-educator. Leightwing 16:49, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

= July 2010 =

I see the last edits were a while ago. There is a Wikiversity project now that is distinct from this Wikibook. I will attempt to edit both during the next few months, adding to this Wikibook as a readable book on primary mathematics for self-learners of all ages and to the Wikiversity topic as a guide to teaching primary mathematics for both homeschooling parents and classroom teachers. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) 19:47, 8 July 2010 (UTC)

Navigation Templates
Hey anyone, I'm adding navigation to these pages and I'm basically using the same template as on another page. I'm new to this so I'm still figuring out the coding and whatnot. I can't seem to find any reference on how to make the Previous link take the user back to the main page of this book. Help? Sheppard (talk) 04:08, 3 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Hmm... probably the template isn't robust enough to do this. I came up with a rather kludgey fix.  I created a redirect page, and pointed it to the main page.  Then I put this as the link to point to in the navigation template.  The only downside is that, when you follow that link there will be in small print at the top of the page "Redirected from ..."  Try it out and tell me what you think. Thenub314 (talk) 04:58, 3 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I think it's a worthwhile workaround until something more fluid can be figured. I'm going to start reading through this book; see what I can do to make it better. Sheppard (talk) 15:11, 3 December 2010 (UTC)