Foundations for Teaching Arithmetic Version 1.1 Editors: Kyla Marston & Kaye Stacey This CD-ROM is for teachers and teacher education students. It supports the teaching of number and arithmetic from early primary into junior secondary years. It explains the important mathematical principles, demonstrates how these can be explained to children and shows both expert performance and intermediate stages of algorithms. It is useful for both practising teachers and teacher education students. It can be used as part of a teacher education course or in-service course, or as a stand-alone self-help program to improve basic understanding of arithmetic and its underlying principles and increase knowledge for teaching. The CD has text, extensive graphics, slide shows and small movies demonstrating solution methods of various stages of sophistication. Contents Each topic includes: Whole Numbers Meaning and Models Fractions Key Ideas Decimals Operations Measurement Teaching Connections Negative Numbers Quiz and Answers Percent, Ratio and Rates   Playback system requirements: Windows pentium processor or equivalent, Windows 95, 989, NT4 or later, minimum 24MB available RAM. Netscape 4 or above or Internet Explorer 4 or above, QuickTime 4 software included on CD. Macintosh PowerPC or above with system 7.6.1 or later, minimum 24MB available RAM. Netscape 4 or above or Internet Explorer 4 or above, QuickTime 4 software included on CD. Price: $44.00 (Australian dollars incl. GST and Australian postage. Add $10 for international postage). Order from: Ms Ela Lugin Faculty of Education Doug McDonell Building University of Melbourne AUSTRALIA 3010 or emlugin@unimelb.edu.au Tel (03) 8344 8400 Fax: 8344 3742 International Tel +61 3 8344 8400 Fax +61 3 8344 8742 Reference Marston, K. & Stacey, K. (2001) Foundations of Teaching Arithmetic (CD-ROM) Melbourne: University of Melbourne, Department of Science and Mathematics Education, Faculty of Education.