Download or read book Embracing Mathematics written by Peter Appelbaum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "alternative textbook" integrates pedagogy and content exploration in ways that are unique in mathematics education, provoking new ideas for making mathematics education meaningful to teachers at all levels as well as their students.
Download or read book Embracing Math written by Deanna Pecaski McLennan and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gain confidence in your ability to incorporate math into all aspects of your early learning program.
Download or read book Productive Math Struggle written by John J. SanGiovanni and published by Corwin. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All students face struggle, and they should—it is how they learn and grow. The teacher’s job is not to remove struggle, but rather to value and harness it, helping students develop good habits of productive struggle. But what’s missing for many educators is an action plan for how to achieve this, especially when it comes to math. This book guides teachers through six specific actions—including valuing, fostering, building, planning, supporting, and reflecting on struggle—to create a game plan for overcoming obstacles by sharing · Actionable steps, activities, and tools for implementation · Instructional tasks representative of each grade level · Real-world examples showcasing classroom photos and student work
Download or read book Embracing Reason written by Daniel Chazan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-16 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells a single story, in many voices, about a serious and sustained set of changes in mathematics teaching practice in a high school and how those efforts influenced and were influenced by a local university. It challenges us to rethink boundaries between theory and practice and the relative roles of teachers and university faculty in educational endeavors.
Download or read book Mathematics Education for a New Era written by Keith Devlin and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stanford mathematician and NPR Math Guy Keith Devlin explains why, fun aside, video games are the ideal medium to teach middle-school math. Aimed primarily at teachers and education researchers, but also of interest to game developers who want to produce videogames for mathematics education, Mathematics Education for a New Era: Video Games as a Med
Download or read book Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics written by Eric Gutstein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematics education in the United States can reproduce social inequalities whether schools use either "basic-skills" curricula to prepare mainly low-income students of color for low-skilled service jobs or "standards-based" curricula to ready students for knowledge-intensive positions. And working for fundamental social change and rectifying injustice are rarely included in any mathematics curriculum. Reading and Writing the World with Mathematics argues that mathematics education should prepare students to investigate and critique injustice, and to challenge, in words and actions, oppressive structures and acts. Based on teacher-research, the book provides a theoretical framework and practical examples for how mathematics educators can connect schooling to a larger sociopolitical context and concretely teach mathematics for social justice.
Download or read book Living Proof written by Allison K. Henrich and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wow! This is a powerful book that addresses a long-standing elephant in the mathematics room. Many people learning math ask ``Why is math so hard for me while everyone else understands it?'' and ``Am I good enough to succeed in math?'' In answering these questions the book shares personal stories from many now-accomplished mathematicians affirming that ``You are not alone; math is hard for everyone'' and ``Yes; you are good enough.'' Along the way the book addresses other issues such as biases and prejudices that mathematicians encounter, and it provides inspiration and emotional support for mathematicians ranging from the experienced professor to the struggling mathematics student. --Michael Dorff, MAA President This book is a remarkable collection of personal reflections on what it means to be, and to become, a mathematician. Each story reveals a unique and refreshing understanding of the barriers erected by our cultural focus on ``math is hard.'' Indeed, mathematics is hard, and so are many other things--as Stephen Kennedy points out in his cogent introduction. This collection of essays offers inspiration to students of mathematics and to mathematicians at every career stage. --Jill Pipher, AMS President This book is published in cooperation with the Mathematical Association of America.
Download or read book Mine the Gap for Mathematical Understanding Grades K 2 written by John SanGiovanni and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being an effective math educator is one part based on the quality of the tasks we give, one part how we diagnose what we see, and one part what we do with what we find. Yet with so many students and big concepts to cover, it can be hard to slow down enough to look for those moments when students’ responses tell us what we need to know about next best steps. In this remarkable book, John SanGiovanni helps us value our young learners’ misconceptions and incomplete understandings as much as their correct ones—because it’s the gap in their understanding today that holds the secrets to planning tomorrow’s best teaching. SanGiovanni lays out 160 high-quality tasks aligned to the standards and big ideas of grades K-2 mathematics, including counting and representing numbers, number relationships and comparison, addition and subtraction within 100 and 1000, money and time, and multiplication and division. The tasks are all downloadable so you can use or modify them for instruction and assessment. Each big idea offers a starting task followed by: what makes it a high-quality taskwhat you might anticipate before students work with the task 4 student examples of the completed task showcasing a distinct "gap" commentary on what precisely counts for mathematical understanding and the next instructional steps commentary on the misconception or incomplete understanding so you learn why the student veered off course three additional tasks aligned to the mathematics topic and ideas about what students might do with these additional tasks. It’s time to break our habit of rushing into re-teaching for correctness and instead get curious about the space between right and wrong answers. Mine the Gap for Mathematical Understanding is a book you will return to again and again to get better at selecting tasks that will uncover students’ reasoning—better at discerning the quality and clarity of students’ understanding—and better at planning teaching based on the gaps you see.
Download or read book The Young Child and Mathematics Third Edition written by Angela Chan Turrou and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tap into the Power of Child-Led Math Teaching and Learning Everything a child does has mathematical value--these words are at the heart of this completely revised and updated third edition of The Young Child and Mathematics. Grounded in current research, this classic book focuses on how teachers working with children ages 3 to 6 can find and build on the math inherent in children's ideas in ways that are playful and intentional. This resource - Illustrates through detailed vignettes how math concepts can be explored in planned learning experiences as well as informal spaces - Highlights in-the-moment instructional decision-making and child-teacher interactions that meaningfully and dynamically support children in making math connections - Provides an overview of what children know about counting and operations, spatial relations, measurement and data, and patterns and algebra - Offers examples of informal documentation and assessment approaches that are embedded within classroom practice Deepen your understanding of how math is an integral part of your classroom all day, every day. Includes online video!
Download or read book Teaching Mathematics written by Brent Davis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an approach to the teaching of mathematics that departs radically from conventional prescription-oriented and management-based methods. It brings together recent developments in such diverse fields as continental and pragmatist philosophy, enactivist thought, critical discourses, cognitive theory, evolution, ecology, and mathematics, and challenges the assumptions that permeate much of mathematics teaching. The discussion focuses on the language used to frame the role of the teacher and is developed around the commonsense distinctions drawn between thought and action, subject and object, individual and collective, fact and fiction, teacher and student, and classroom tasks and real life. The discussion also addresses the question of how mathematics teaching can be reformed to better suit current academic and social climates. Making use of the theoretical framework of enactivism, the book explores the subject through an account of a middle school teacher's appreciation and understanding of her role. Teaching mathematics, as both the report of this teacher's experience and the discussion make clear, demands an embracing of ambiguity, uncertainty, complexity, and moral responsibility. Courses for Adoption Education: Mathematics for Elementary Teachers, Methods for Teaching Elementary Schools, Methods for Teaching Secondary Schools, Curriculum Studies, Critical Pedagogy Special Features *Elucidates the importance and relationship between theory and practice. Employs reflective teaching techniques to focus students on their own learning, knowledge, and understanding of mathematics.Details a collaborative venture that traces the development of new thinking and insights about math teaching and learning. *A fine blending of theory with practice.
Download or read book Mathematics for beginners written by Nicky Huys and published by Nicky Huys. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mathematics for Beginners" is a comprehensive guide that introduces readers to the fundamental principles of mathematics. Whether you're a student struggling with math concepts or an adult looking to refresh your math skills, this book provides a clear and accessible approach to understanding the world of numbers. Starting from the basics, it covers topics such as number systems, arithmetic operations, algebraic foundations, geometry, measurement, data analysis, and more. With easy-to-follow explanations, step-by-step examples, and practical exercises, this book aims to build a solid foundation in mathematics. Discover the beauty and power of mathematical reasoning, problem-solving strategies, and their applications in various fields. Whether you're preparing for exams or simply seeking to improve your mathematical abilities, "Mathematics for Beginners" is your go-to resource for mastering the essential concepts and skills of mathematics.
Download or read book Why Rural Schools Matter written by Mara Casey Tieken and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Rural Schools Matter
Download or read book The Nature and Utility of Mathematics written by Charles Davies and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mathematical Enculturation written by Alan Bishop and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1991-06-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematics is in the unenviable position of being simultaneously one of the most important school subjects for today's children to study and one of the least well understood. Its reputation is awe-inspiring. Everybody knows how important it is and everybody knows that they have to study it. But few people feel comfortable with it; so much so that it is socially quite acceptable in many countries to confess ignorance about it, to brag about one's incompe tence at doing it, and even to claim that one is mathophobic! So are teachers around the world being apparently legal sadists by inflicting mental pain on their charges? Or is it that their pupils are all masochists, enjoying the thrill of self-inflicted mental torture? More seriously, do we really know what the reasons are for the mathematical activity which goes on in schools? Do we really have confidence in our criteria for judging what's important and what isn't? Do we really know what we should be doing? These basic questions become even more important when considered in the context of two growing problem areas. The first is a concern felt in many countries about the direction which mathematics education should take in the face of the increasing presence of computers and calculator-related technol ogy in society.
Download or read book Math Doesn t Suck written by Danica McKellar and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title has been removed from sale by Penguin Group, USA.
Download or read book Elements of Analytical Mechanics written by William Holms Chambers Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elements of Natural Philosophy written by William Holms Chambers Bartlett and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
