This book addresses the cognitive, social, and psychological dimensions that shape students’ mathematics experience to help students become more capable, cooperative, and confident in the process of engaging mathematics. In these ways they can have a more valuable and enjoyable mathematics experience, and become more valued participants in society. The book focuses on the mathematics classroom for students grades six to twelve and how students can become more successful mathematical thinkers, in addition to how the curriculum could be presented so as to provide a more engaging mathematics experience.
Table des matières
Introduction.- On Developing Students’ Mathematical Intelligence.- Presentations into Investigations.- Habits of the Mind: The Heart of the Mathematics Curriculum.- Lessons from a Third-Grade Mathematics Classroom.- Sharing the Language of Productive Inquiry.- Collaborative Mathematics Investigations.- On Providing a Supportive Mathematics Classroom.- Including Students’ Goals.- Grading What We Value.- Homework as a Responsible Practice.- Mathematics Classroom Observations.- Summing Up.
A propos de l’auteur
Marshall Gordon, Ed D has spent over 40 years teaching mathematics in secondary schools and mathematics education and philosophy of education in undergraduate and graduate school. He received his AB in mathematics and philosophy from Hunter College, City University of New York, and his Ed D in mathematics education from Columbia University Teachers College. He has been at the Park School of Baltimore since 1985.
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