?Highly accessible and enjoyable for readers who love and loathe math.? ?Booklist...
$17.40This work reports on case studies of two schools that have taught mathematics in different ways. Three hundred students were followed over three years, providing a range of data to show the ways their beliefs and understandings were shaped by different approaches to mathematics teaching.
$43.44Authors analyze mathematics education from a range of perspectives. They address such practical problems as: maximizing the impact of teacher education programmes; increasing learning opportunities for students working in groups; and the impact of male domination in mixed classrooms.
$163.85Authors analyze mathematics education from a range of perspectives. They address such practical problems as: maximizing the impact of teacher education programmes; increasing learning opportunities for students working in groups; and the impact of male domination in mixed classrooms.
$53.77This work reports on case studies of two schools that have taught mathematics in different ways. Three hundred students were followed over three years, providing a range of data to show the ways their beliefs and understandings were shaped by different approaches to mathematics teaching.
$124.20"Where do content and pedagogy meet? They converge in these beautifully crafted cases of teaching-richly detailed, deeply interpreted, sensitively glossed, moving effortlessly between written and visual media. Jo Boaler and Cathy Humphreys model the exquisite collaboration between a scholar of practice and a scholarly practitioner."...
$36.63Subtitled, "Helping Children Learn & Love Maths". Boaler outlines the crisis in maths education in the UK and the USA, and proposes ways to excite and motivate pupils about the subject.
Currently Unavailable More detailsExamines how the multiple dimensions of race, class, culture, power and knowledge interact in mathematics classrooms to foster and create inequities. This book explores theoretical perspectives, describes successful classroom practices, and offers insights into how we might develop an effective sociocultural approach to equity in math education.
Currently Unavailable More detailsA recent assessment of mathematics performance around the world ranked the United States twenty-eighth out of forty countries in the study. When the level of spending was taken into account, we sank to the very bottom of the list. We are falling rapidly behind the rest of the developed world when it comes to math education-and the consequences are dire....
Currently Unavailable More detailsIn math, like any subject, real learning takes place when students can connect what they already know to new ideas. In Connecting Mathematical Idea s, Jo Boaler and Cathy Humphreys offer a comprehensive way to improve your ability to help adolescents build connections between different mathematical ideas and representations and between domains like algebra and geometry.
Currently Unavailable More details