Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series
Standards-based School Mathematics Curricula: What Are They? What Do Students Learn?
1st Edition
Edited
By Sharon L. Senk, Denisse R. Thompson
September 01, 2003
The Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics published by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in 1989 set forth a broad vision of mathematical content and pedagogy for grades K-12 in the United States. These Standards prompted the development of Standards-based ...
Engaging Young Children in Mathematics: Standards for Early Childhood Mathematics Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Douglas H. Clements, Julie Sarama, Associate Edito DiBiase, Ann-Marie DiBiase
July 01, 2003
This book consists of conclusions drawn from the expertise shared at the Conference on Standards for Prekindergarten and Kindergarten Mathematics Education. It offers substantive detail regarding young students' understandings of mathematical ideas....
The Development of Arithmetic Concepts and Skills: Constructive Adaptive Expertise
1st Edition
Edited
By Arthur J. Baroody, Ann Dowker
January 01, 2003
This volume focuses on two related questions that are central to both the psychology of mathematical thinking and learning and to the improvement of mathematics education: What is the nature of arithmetic expertise? How can instruction best promote it? Contributors from a variety of specialities,...
Experiencing School Mathematics: Traditional and Reform Approaches To Teaching and Their Impact on Student Learning, Revised and Expanded Edition
1st Edition
By Jo Boaler
September 01, 2002
NORTH AMERICAN RIGHTS ONLY: This is a revised edition of Experiencing School Mathematics first published in 1997 by Open University Press, © Jo Boaler. This revised edition is for sale in North America only.The first book to provide direct evidence for the effectiveness of traditional and ...
Beyond Classical Pedagogy: Teaching Elementary School Mathematics
1st Edition
Edited
By Terry Wood, Barbara Scott Nelson, Janet E. Warfield
May 01, 2001
The emergence of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards in 1989 sparked a sea change in thinking about the nature and quality of mathematics instruction in U.S. schools. Much is known about transmission forms of mathematics teaching and the influence of this teaching on students'...
Using Assessment To Reshape Mathematics Teaching: A Casebook for Teachers and Teacher Educators, Curriculum and Staff Development Specialists
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra K. Wilcox, Perry E. Lanier
April 01, 2000
This casebook is intended to support professionals who are working in a variety of contexts to use classroom-based assessment more effectively to support teacher learning and teaching change, and to enhance the opportunities for all students to develop mathematical power. It grows out of a ...
Mathematics Classrooms That Promote Understanding
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Fennema, Thomas A. Romberg
April 01, 1999
Mathematics Classrooms That Promote Understanding synthesizes the implications of research done by the National Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences on integrating two somewhat diverse bodies of scholarly inquiry: the study of teaching and the study of learning mathematics. This research ...
Word Problems: Research and Curriculum Reform
1st Edition
By Stephen K. Reed
December 01, 1998
Research by cognitive psychologists and mathematics educators has often been compartmentalized by departmental boundaries. Word Problems integrates this research to show its relevance to the debate on the reform of mathematics education. Beginning with the different knowledge structures that ...
Designing Learning Environments for Developing Understanding of Geometry and Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Lehrer, Daniel Chazan
October 01, 1998
This volume reflects an appreciation of the interactive roles of subject matter, teacher, student, and technologies in designing classrooms that promote understanding of geometry and space. Although these elements of geometry education are mutually constituted, the book is organized to highlight, ...
Reflections on Statistics: Learning, Teaching, and Assessment in Grades K-12
1st Edition
Edited
By Susanne P. Lajoie
March 01, 1998
An issue in the current push for reform in mathematics education is the call to address statistics at the precollege level. This volume represents the emerging findings of an interdisciplinary collaboration among a group of mathematics educators, cognitive scientists, teachers, and statisticians to...
Mathematical Reasoning: Analogies, Metaphors, and Images
1st Edition
Edited
By Lyn D. English
July 01, 1997
How we reason with mathematical ideas continues to be a fascinating and challenging topic of research--particularly with the rapid and diverse developments in the field of cognitive science that have taken place in recent years. Because it draws on multiple disciplines, including psychology, ...
Mathematics Teachers in Transition
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Fennema, Barbara Scott Nelson
May 01, 1997
This book addresses the need of professional development leaders and policymakers for scholarly knowledge about influencing teachers to modify mathematical instruction to bring it more in alignment with the recommendations of the current reform movement initiated by the National Council of Teachers...