Creative Mathematics Exploring Children's Understanding Author:Rena Brigit Upitis, Eileen Phillips, William Higginson, Rena Upitis This book shows how creative math can really work. Exploring the ways in which math skills can be learned through cross-curicular activities based on visual arts and music, the book presents math as a meaningful and exciting subject which holds no fear for children. The authors recognize that while math-phobia prevails, attitudes and approaches ... more »to teaching the subject need to be reviewed, and issues such as gender stereotyping need to be tackled at an early stage. These classroom-based stories include detailed examples of integrative mathematic projects.« less