How Students Mis Understand Science And Mathematics

Author : Ruth Stavy,Dina Tirosh
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807770418

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How Students (mis-) Understand Science and Mathematics by Ruth Stavy,Dina Tirosh Pdf

In this long-awaited book, Timothy J. Lensmire examines the problems and promise of progressive literacy education. He does this by developing a series of striking metaphors in which, for example, he imagines the writing workshop as a carnival or popular festival and the teacher as a novelist who writes her student-characters into more and less desirable classroom stories. Grounded in Lensmire's own and others' work in schools, Powerful Writing, Responsible Teaching makes powerful use of Bakhtin's theories of language and writing and Dewey's vision of schooling and democracy. Lensmire's book is, at once, a defense, a criticism, and a reconstruction of progressive and critical literacy approaches.

Author : Page Keeley,Cheryl Rose Tobey
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412968126

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Mathematics Formative Assessment by Page Keeley,Cheryl Rose Tobey Pdf

"There is a substantive body of research that indicates formative assessment can significantly improve student learning. Yet, this same research shows that the features of formative assessment that impact student achievement are sadly missing from many classrooms (Black, et al., 2003). This book provides teachers with guidance and suggestions for using formative assessment to improve teaching and learning in the mathematics classroom, and identifies and describes practical techniques teachers can use to build a rich repertoire of formative assessment strategies. The acronym, FACT, is used to label the techniques included in this book. FACT stands for Formative Assessment Classroom Technique. Through the varied use of FACTs, explicitly tied to a purpose for gathering information about or promoting students--thinking and learning, teachers can focus on what works best for learning and design or modify lessons to fit the needs of the students"--

Author : Page Keeley,Cheryl Rose Tobey
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452269443

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Mathematics Formative Assessment, Volume 1 by Page Keeley,Cheryl Rose Tobey Pdf

Transform your mathematics instruction with this rich collection of formative assessment techniques Award-winning author Page Keeley and mathematics expert Cheryl Rose Tobey apply the successful format of Keeley’s best-selling Science Formative Assessment to mathematics. They provide 75 formative assessment strategies and show teachers how to use them to inform instructional planning and better meet the needs of all students. Research shows that formative assessment has the power to significantly improve learning, and its many benefits include: Stimulation of metacognitive thinking Increased student engagement Insights into student thinking Development of a discourse community

Author : Page Keeley
Publisher : NSTA Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780873552554

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Uncovering Student Ideas in Science: 25 formative assessment probes by Page Keeley Pdf

V. 1. Physical science assessment probes -- Life, Earth, and space science assessment probes.

Author : Fou-Lai Lin,Thomas J. Cooney
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789401008280

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Making Sense of Mathematics Teacher Education by Fou-Lai Lin,Thomas J. Cooney Pdf

This is a research-based book that deals with a broad range of issues about mathematics teacher education. It examines teacher education programs from different societies and cultures as it develops an international perspective on mathematics teacher education. Practical situations that are associated with related theories are studied critically. It is intended for teacher educators, mathematics educators, graduate students in mathematics education, and mathematics teachers.

Author : Thomas A. Romberg
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807744816

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Standards-based Mathematics Assessment in Middle School by Thomas A. Romberg Pdf

This volume takes an in-depth look at the problems and practices involved in conducting formative assessments in middle school mathematics classrooms. In these chapters, researchers and teachers identify the challenges teachers faced as they attempted to implement new assessment procedures, moving from more traditional methods to an emphasis in the quality of student work. This authoritative book: Documents the shift from traditional ways of judging student performance (tests to measure what students know) to reform notions of mathematical literacy (documenting students' growth in understanding specific content domains); Discusses four key steps in the change process that helped teachers to accomplish the necessary shift in assessment practices. Includes two chapters written by teachers that describe their personal experiences with implementing these new practices in the classroom and outlines a professional development program that evolved as a consequence of the work done by the teachers and students discussed in this book.

Author : C Haines,P Galbraith,W Blum,S Khan
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780857099419

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Mathematical Modelling by C Haines,P Galbraith,W Blum,S Khan Pdf

This book continues the ICTMA tradition of influencing teaching and learning in the application of mathematical modelling. Each chapter shows how real life problems can be discussed during university lectures, in school classrooms and industrial research. International experts contribute their knowledge and experience by providing analysis, insight and comment whilst tackling large and complex problems by applying mathematical modelling. This book covers the proceedings from the Twelfth International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematical Modelling and Applications. Covers the proceedings from the Twelfth International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematical Modelling and Applications Continues the ICTMA tradition of influencing teaching and learning in the application of mathematical modelling Shows how real life problems can be discussed during university lectures, in school classrooms and industrial research

Author : Cheryl M. Rose,Leslie Minton,Carolyn Arline
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781483334103

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Uncovering Student Thinking in Mathematics by Cheryl M. Rose,Leslie Minton,Carolyn Arline Pdf

Appropriate for all grade levels, these 25 field-tested, easy-to-use mathematics assessment probes help teachers modify instruction by determining students' understanding of core mathematical concepts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : CORNELL:31924097723310

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ENC Focus by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lyn D. English,David Kirshner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135192761

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Handbook of International Research in Mathematics Education by Lyn D. English,David Kirshner Pdf

This book brings together mathematics education research that makes a difference in both theory and practice - research that anticipates problems and needed knowledge before they become impediments to progress.

Author : Rina Zazkis,Nathalie Sinclair,Peter Liljedahl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781461435495

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Lesson Play in Mathematics Education: by Rina Zazkis,Nathalie Sinclair,Peter Liljedahl Pdf

Lesson play is a novel construct in research and teachers’ professional development in mathematics education. Lesson play refers to a lesson or part of a lesson presented in dialogue form—inspired in part by Lakatos’s evocative Proofs and Refutations—featuring imagined interactions between a teacher and her/his students. We have been using and refining our use of this tool for a number of years and using it in a variety of situations involving mathematics thinking and learning. The goal of this proposed book is to offer a comprehensive survey of the affordances of the tool, the results of our studies—particularly in the area of pre-service teacher education, and the reasons that the tool offers such productive possibilities for both researchers and teacher educators.

Author : Margaret Schwan Smith,Edward A. Silver,Mary Kay Stein
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807745316

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Improving Instruction in Geometry and Measurement by Margaret Schwan Smith,Edward A. Silver,Mary Kay Stein Pdf

Helping students develop an understanding of important mathematical ideas is a persistent challenge for teachers. In this book, one of a three-volume set, well-known mathematics educators Margaret Smith, Edward A. Silver, and Mary Kay Stein provide teachers of mathematics the support they need to improve their instruction. They focus on ways to engage upper elementary, middle school, and high school students in thinking, reasoning, and problem solving to build their mathematics understanding and proficiency. The content focus of Volume One is rational numbers and proportionality. Using materials that were developed under the NSF-funded COMET (Cases of Mathematics to Enhance Teaching) program, each volume in the set features cases from urban, middle school classrooms with ethnically, racially, and linguistically diverse student populations. Each case illustrates an instructional episode in the classroom of a teacher who is implementing standards-based instruction, the teachers' perspective, including their thoughts and actions as they interact with students and with key aspects of mathematical content, cognitively challenging mathematics activities that are built around samples of authentic classroom practice., and facilitation chapters to help professional developers "teach" the cases, including specific guidelines for facilitating discussions and suggestions for connecting the ideas presented in the cases to a teacher's own practice. As a complete set, this resource provides a basis on which to build a comprehensive professional development program to improve mathematics instruction and student learning.

Author : Marilyn Paula Carlson,Chris Rasmussen
Publisher : MAA
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0883851830

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Making the Connection by Marilyn Paula Carlson,Chris Rasmussen Pdf

The chapters in this volume convey insights from mathematics education research that have direct implications for anyone interested in improving teaching and learning in undergraduate mathematics. This synthesis of research on learning and teaching mathematics provides relevant information for any math department or individual faculty member who is working to improve introductory proof courses, the longitudinal coherence of precalculus through differential equations, students' mathematical thinking and problem-solving abilities, and students' understanding of fundamental ideas such as variable and rate of change. Other chapters include information about programs that have been successful in supporting students' continued study of mathematics. The authors provide many examples and ideas to help the reader infuse the knowledge from mathematics education research into mathematics teaching practice. University mathematicians and community college faculty spend much of their time engaged in work to improve their teaching. Frequently, they are left to their own experiences and informal conversations with colleagues to develop new approaches to support student learning and their continuation in mathematics. Over the past 30 years, research in undergraduate mathematics education has produced knowledge about the development of mathematical understandings and models for supporting students' mathematical learning. Currently, very little of this knowledge is affecting teaching practice. We hope that this volume will open a meaningful dialogue between researchers and practitioners toward the goal of realizing improvements in undergraduate mathematics curriculum and instruction.

Author : Elaine V. Howes
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807742104

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Connecting Girls and Science by Elaine V. Howes Pdf

Shows the positive results that can occur in secondary science classes when student's curiosity about science is brought to the centre of the curriculum. In particular, it demonstrates how girls can become more interested when such topics as childbirth and sexism in science are included.

Author : Rina Zazkis,Patricio Herbst
Publisher : Springer
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319626925

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Scripting Approaches in Mathematics Education by Rina Zazkis,Patricio Herbst Pdf

This book shows how the practice of script writing can be used both as a pedagogical approach and as a research tool in mathematics education. It provides an opportunity for script-writers to articulate their mathematical arguments and/or their pedagogical approaches. It further provides researchers with a corpus of narratives that can be analyzed using a variety of theoretical perspectives. Various chapters argue for the use of dialogical method and highlight its benefits and special features. The chapters examine both “low tech” implementations as well as the use of a technological platform, LessonSketch. The chapters present results of and insights from several recent studies, which utilized scripting in mathematics education research and practice.