Mathematics, teachers and children : a reader
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Mathematics, teachers and children : a reader
Hodder and Stoughton in association with the Open University, 1988
Available at 8 libraries
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An Open University coursebook for mathematics teachers and teacher trainers designed especially to accompany course ME234 "Mathematical Thinking". It consists of a collection of articles and readings designed for those concerned with teaching primary and secondary mathematics, with an emphasis on helping pupils take responsibility for their own learning and apply skills and knowledge in context. Key issues of problem solving, problem posing, assessment and evaluation are addressed.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Classroom issues: a question of balance
- some infants' work
- chairs for bears
- towards a problem-solving school
- a problem-solving approach to a diagnostic assessment
- modelling sunrise data with a graph plotter
- computer modelling in a problem-solving environment. Part 2 Social, political and personal issues: mathematics for a multicultural society
- Asian children in school
- the marginalization of girls in mathematics - some causes and some remedies
- low attainers can do mathematics
- hidden messages
- the politics of per cent
- looking for relevance - can we let them decide?
- what are we assessing and what are we assessing for?
- school applications of IT
- opening-up
- responding to change
- tensions
- Gestalt therapy, educational process and personal development. Part 3 Mathematical issues: on the mathematical nature of turtle programming
- some roles of problem posing in the learning of mathematics
- modelling - what do we really want students to learn?
- aspects of proof in pupils' practice of school mathematics. Part 4 Mathematical education issues: playing games and real mathematics
- evaluating mathematical activity
- why should teachers be interested in research in mathematics education?
- teachers' decision making
- "is" versus "seeing as" - constructivism and the mathematics classroom
- imagery, imagination and mathematics classrooms
- investigating investigations
- Lucas turns in his grave.
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