Ted Scott Burton

The ninth edition of Mathematics for Elementary Teachers: A Conceptual Approach continues the innovative time-tested approach of the previous editions: an emphasis on learning via specific, realistic examples and the extensive use of visual aids, hands-on activities, problem-solving strategies and a...

“Is Daddy going to tear down the Christmas tree this year?” This is the opening line of ‘Oh My Blessed Father’, the first of a two book set. It is also one of the first sentences that the narrator Benny Cooper had composed as a two-year old. From the opening line, you can gather that this is the sto...

The ninth edition of Mathematics for Elementary Teachers: A Conceptual Approach continues the innovative time-tested approach of the previous editions: an emphasis on learning via specific, realistic examples and the extensive use of visual aids, hands-on activities, problem-solving strategies and a...

Albert B. Bennett, Jr. and L. Ted Nelson have presented hundreds of workshops on how to give future teachers the conceptual understanding and procedural fluency they will need in order to successfully teach elementary-school mathematics. "The Eighth Edition of Mathematics for Elementary Teachers: A ...