Children learn mathematics most effectively in contexts that are meaningful to them. Realizing the potential of these contexts for fostering young children's mathematical learning while nurturing and challenging them, requires knowledge of mathematics as well as of child development.

Sydney L. Schwartz is Professor Emerita, Elementary and Early Childhood Education, Queens College, City University of New York. She publishes extensively in her field of mathematics education.

• Publisher: Greenwood/Praeger
• Publisher Imprint: Greenwood
• Publication Date: November 19, 2005
• Pages: 224
• ISBN13: 9780275982164
• Item Weight: 490 grams
• Original Price: 695.0 INR
• Edition: N/A
• Binding: Hardcover