Product Description: All over the world there are children who learn one (or more) language at home and then have to learn another language when they attend school. In some cases this is because children come from immigrant backgrounds; in other cases children come from indigenous communities in countries which have been colonised...read more

Product Description: Jennie Bickmore-Brand has collated the writings of the major voices in the field of language and mathematics teaching. These writers warn of the dangers both of the traditional approach to teaching mathematics and of current trends, and seek to offer constructive ways to maximize the contribution that language can make in generating, comprehending, and expressing mathematical ideas and mathematical knowledge...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)