Download or read book Teaching Math to Multilingual Students Grades K 8 written by Kathryn B. Chval and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using strengths-based approaches to support development in mathematics It’s time to re-imagine what’s possible and celebrate the brilliance multilingual learners bring to today’s classrooms. Innovative teaching strategies can position these learners as leaders in mathematics. Yet, as the number of multilingual learners in North American schools grows, many teachers have not had opportunities to gain the competencies required to teach these learners effectively, especially in disciplines such as mathematics. Multilingual learners—historically called English Language Learners—are expected to interpret the meaning of problems, analyze, make conjectures, evaluate their progress, and discuss and understand their own approaches and the approaches of their peers in mathematics classrooms. Thus, language plays a vital role in mathematics learning, and demonstrating these competencies in a second (or third) language is a challenging endeavor. Based on best practices and the authors’ years of research, this guide offers practical approaches that equip grades K-8 teachers to draw on the strengths of multilingual learners, partner with their families, and position these learners for success. Readers will find: • A focus on multilingual students as leaders • A strength-based approach that draws on students’ life experiences and cultural backgrounds • An emphasis on maintaining high expectations for learners’ capacity for mastering rigorous content • Strategies for representing concepts in different formats • Stop and Think questions throughout and reflection questions at the end of each chapter • Try It! Implementation activities, student work examples, and classroom transcripts With case studies and activities that provide a solid foundation for teachers’ growth and exploration, this groundbreaking book will help teachers and teacher educators engage in meaningful, humanized mathematics instruction.
Download or read book The Language of Mathematics written by Robert L. Baber and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and unique way of understanding the translation of concepts and natural language into mathematical expressions Transforming a body of text into corresponding mathematical expressions and models is traditionally viewed and taught as a mathematical problem; it is also a task that most find difficult. The Language of Mathematics: Utilizing Math in Practice reveals a new way to view this process—not as a mathematical problem, but as a translation, or language, problem. By presenting the language of mathematics explicitly and systematically, this book helps readers to learn mathematics¿and improve their ability to apply mathematics more efficiently and effectively to practical problems in their own work. Using parts of speech to identify variables and functions in a mathematical model is a new approach, as is the insight that examining aspects of grammar is highly useful when formulating a corresponding mathematical model. This book identifies the basic elements of the language of mathematics, such as values, variables, and functions, while presenting the grammatical rules for combining them into expressions and other structures. The author describes and defines different notational forms for expressions, and also identifies the relationships between parts of speech and other grammatical elements in English and components of expressions in the language of mathematics. Extensive examples are used throughout that cover a wide range of real-world problems and feature diagrams and tables to facilitate understanding. The Language of Mathematics is a thought-provoking book of interest for readers who would like to learn more about the linguistic nature and aspects of mathematical notation. The book also serves as a valuable supplement for engineers, technicians, managers, and consultants who would like to improve their ability to apply mathematics effectively, systematically, and efficiently to practical problems.
Download or read book Math is Language Too written by Phyllis Whitin and published by National Council of Teachers of English (Ncte). This book was released on 2000 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes strategies for helping children learn about math in which students write, draw, and talk to each other about the individual ways they work through math concepts.
Download or read book Language and Communication in Mathematics Education written by Judit N. Moschkovich and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers some of the outstanding questions regarding language and communication in the teaching and learning of mathematics – an established theme in mathematics education research, which is growing in prominence. Recent research has demonstrated the wide range of theoretical and methodological resources that can contribute to this area of study, including those drawing on cross-disciplinary perspectives influenced by, among others, sociology, psychology, linguistics, and semiotics. Examining language in its broadest sense to include all modes of communication, including visual and gestural as well as spoken and written modes, it features work presented and discussed in the Language and Communication topic study group (TSG 31) at the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME-13). A joint session with participants of the Mathematics Education in a Multilingual and Multicultural Environment topic study group (TSG 32) enhanced discussions, which are incorporated in elaborations included in this book. Discussing cross-cutting topics it appeals to readers from a wide range of disciplines, such as mathematics education and research methods in education, multilingualism, applied linguistics and beyond.
Download or read book The Problem with Math Is English written by Concepcion Molina and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching K-12 math becomes an easier task when everyoneunderstands the language, symbolism, and representation of mathconcepts Published in partnership with SEDL, The Problem with Math IsEnglish illustrates how students often understand fundamentalmathematical concepts at a superficial level. Written to inspire?aha? moments, this book enables teachers to help students identifyand comprehend the nuances and true meaning of math concepts byexploring them through the lenses of language and symbolism,delving into such essential topics as multiplication, division,fractions, place value, proportional reasoning, graphs, slope,order of operations, and the distributive property. Offers a new way to approach teaching math content in a waythat will improve how all students, and especially English languagelearners, understand math Emphasizes major attributes of conceptual understanding inmathematics, including simple yet deep definitions of key terms,connections among key topics, and insightful interpretation This important new book fills a gap in math education byillustrating how a deeper knowledge of math concepts can bedeveloped in all students through a focus on language andsymbolism.
Download or read book The Language of Math written by Marilyn M. Toomey and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to help students identify terms associated with quantity, order math operations and principles of math in daily experience and also to suggest ways of "talking through" simple math operations and the reasons supporting them. For early primary grade students.
Download or read book Teaching for Biliteracy written by Karen Beeman and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What s Math Got to Do with It written by Jo Boaler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how to make mathematics for children enjoyable and why it is important for American children to succeed in mathematics and choose math-based career paths in the future.
Download or read book Teaching Math as a Language written by Rodney Weems and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Teaching Math as a Language, author Rodney Weems explains how training students to use a simple, triangular map with eleven elements gives them the confidence and ability to solve ninety-five percent of all problems encountered in middle and high school. The map functions as a mathematical mnemonic that lowest-quartile students, in particular, gravitate towards with striking success. This practical, integrated approach to effective math instruction is aimed at new and mid-career teachers, including homeschool parents. Here are a few quotes from Teaching Math as a Language: "It is remarkable that in most American secondary schools no consistent style of problem solving runs uniformly across the grades. The resulting inefficiencies are shameful, the myriad and often contradictory methods that students must struggle with frightening." "The less adept the students, the higher the likelihood they will cling to the first procedures they are taught as the only procedures they comprehend and feel comfortable using. It becomes all the more imperative, then, that the first procedures they are taught carry a mirror of larger problems to come." " Emotional safety] is arguably the most difficult element to provide in many learning environments because providing it requires a well-developed sense of balance. It requires creating a space where humor makes the environment fun, but where laughing at others' failures is never an option; a place where perfection is the goal, but simultaneously a place where mistakes are lauded as the stepping stones to success rather than loathed as indicators of failure; a place where external discipline systems form guide rails along established learning paths, but also a place that seeks to fan the flames of curiosity and self-directed exploration." Participants in the workshops that encouraged this book have written: "So many practical ideas reduced to a few categories." "It was empowering to be with an educator that has developed techniques based on reflections on direct student learning experiences." "Great, can't wait to use this every day." Rodney is the recipient of a B.S. in physics from the United States Naval Academy, a Dodge Foundation Alternate-Route Teaching Scholarship winner and a former National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar Participant. Eighty-nine percent of his lowest-quartile students have passed the New Jersey state High School Proficiency Assessment in recent years, at-risk students performing twenty-five percent above his school's average. Visit us at www.trilastic.com
Download or read book Classroom Research on Mathematics and Language written by Núria Planas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an international perspective on the current and future state of the research, focusing, in particular, on the role and use of language in mathematics school teaching and learning. It focuses on the development of a unified view of the languages of the learners, of the teachers and of mathematics by considering the role of language in the learning, teaching and doing of mathematics in the classroom, and the current richness and plurality of language and culture. The contributions in this volume combine to show how views of language and of language research in mathematics education have changed significantly in recent decades, and how they will continue to change and become even more complex and challenging in the era of diversity. All of these contributions by leading scholars are grouped into two sections for emphasis on issues of: • Theorising the complexity of language in mathematics teaching and learning • Opening spaces of learning with mathematics classroom research on language This book will be of great interest to mathematics teachers, teacher educators, curriculum developers and mathematics education researchers who deal with the study and implementation of pedagogies of mathematics teaching and learning, specifically in regions of the world which are culturally and sociolinguistically diverse.
Download or read book Math on the Move written by Malke Rosenfeld and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kids love to move. But how do we harness all that kinetic energy effectively for math learning? In Math on the Move, Malke Rosenfeld shows how pairing math concepts and whole body movement creates opportunities for students to make sense of math in entirely new ways. Malke shares her experience creating dynamic learning environments by: exploring the use of the body as a thinking tool, highlighting mathematical ideas that are usefully explored with a moving body, providing a range of entry points for learning to facilitate a moving math classroom. ..."--Publisher description.
Download or read book Teaching Math with Favorite Picture Books written by Judi Hechtman and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides literature-based activities for teaching math to students in grades one through three, each with activities, reproducible patterns, and recording sheets.
Download or read book Language in Mathematics written by Jennie Bickmore-Brand and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a movement across Australia to pay a closer look at how mathematics can be integrated with the language arts philosophy and curriculum. Teachers are using literature to teach mathematical concepts, and modelling mathematical processing on process writing techniques. However, some fear that these activities could have the effect of trivialising mathematics. This book collates the writings of the major voices in the field of language and mathematics teaching. These writers warn of the dangers of both the traditional approach to teaching mathematics, and of current trends, and seek to offer constructive ways to maximise the contribution that language can make in generating, comprehending and expressing mathematical ideas and mathematical knowledge.
Download or read book Math Curse written by Jon Scieszka and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-10-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you ever wake up to one of those days where everything is a problem? You have 10 things to do, but only 30 minutes until your bus leaves. Is there enough time? You have 3 shirts and 2 pairs of pants. Can you make 1 good outfit? Then you start to wonder: Why does everything have to be such a problem? Why do 2 apples always have to be added to 5 oranges? Why do 4 kids always have to divide 12 marbles? Why can't you just keep 10 cookies without someone taking 3 away? Why? Because you're the victim of a Math Curse. That's why. But don't despair. This is one girl's story of how that curse can be broken.
Download or read book Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners written by Luciana C. de Oliveira and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited book is about preparing pre-service and in-service teachers to teach secondary-level mathematics to English Language Learners (ELLs) in twenty-first century classrooms. Chapter topics are grounded in both research and practice, addressing a range of timely topics including the current state of ELL education in the secondary mathematics classroom, approaches to leveraging the talents and strengths of bilingual students in heterogeneous classrooms, best practices in teaching mathematics to multilingual students, and ways to infuse the secondary mathematics teacher preparation curriculum with ELL pedagogy. This book will appeal to all teachers of ELLs, teacher educators and researchers of language acquisition more broadly. This volume is part of a set of four edited books focused on teaching the key content areas to English language learners. The other books in the set focus on teaching History and Social Studies, English Language Arts, and Science to ELLs.
Download or read book Creating a Language Rich Math Class written by Sandra L. Atkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What meanings do your students have for key mathematics concepts? What meanings do you wish them to have? Creating a Language-Rich Math Class offers practical approaches for developing conceptual understandings by connecting concrete, pictorial, verbal, and symbolic representations. The focus is on making mathematics memorable instead of on memorizing. You’ll learn strategies for introducing students to math language that gives meaning to the terms and symbols they use everyday; for building flexibility and precision in students’ use of math language; and for structuring activities to make them more language-rich. Book Features: Detailed directions for sample games and activities for immediate classroom use; Investigations to Try and Questions for Reflection to assist in implementing these ideas into your practice; Graphic organizer for helping students first understand, solve, and defend their solutions to word problems; Blackline masters of game cards and puzzles (also available at http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138916296/)
Download or read book Precalculus written by Warren W. Esty and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended as a bridge from high school Algebra II and trigonometry to college calculus,Warren Esty's Precalculus fills the need for a text that delves deeper into the power of algebra and algebraic notation than the usual texts that emphasize calculation skills. The text includes the usual precalculus material, such as functions, powers, polynomials, logarithms, exponentials, and trigonometry, while placing special emphasis on learning how to read and use mathematical symbolism. As it is not designed for a terminal course, Precalculus offers students the tools they need to retain what they learn. For example, in addition to the usual calculation problems for practice, the text has problems that ask for an illustration, explanation, or a statement in mathematical notation, rather than just a computation; in fact, some problems ask for the plan and not the answer. Typically, students do well with algebra if the context is simple and the computation is with numbers; however, they have a harder time at the deeper level required to do word problems and calculus, which ask students to write about operations applied to letters (variables). Thus, texts that duplicate the calculation-oriented algebra of high school without stressing algebraic symbolism-with letters as they appear every day in calculus-fall short in preparing students for higher math. Precalculus does not.
