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Learning to Teach Mathematics in the Secondary School
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 42.95Learning to Teach Mathematics in the Secondary School covers a wide range of issues in the teaching of mathematics and gives supporting activities to students to enable them to translate theory into practice. Topics covered include: mathematics in the National Curriculum different teaching approaches using ICT mathematics education for... more...
Quantum Quandaries
National Science Teachers Association 1995; US$ 9.95For extra credit or just for the fun of itwhy not try a brainteaser? This collection brings together the first 100 brainteasers from Quantum magazine, published by the National Science Teachers Association in collaboration with the Russian magazine Kvant. Through its pages, youll find number rebuses, geometry ticklers, logic puzzles, and... more...
Lessons Learned
Brookings Institution Press 2007; US$ 26.95For more than four decades, international assessments conducted by the International Association for Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) have measured how well students are learning mathematics in different countries. Beyond the horse racethe rankings that compare nationswhat have we learned from the wealth of data collected in... more...
Difficoltà in matematica
Springer 2007; US$ 23.99Il volume affronta il problema delle difficolt in matematica in contesto scolastico: fenomeno diffuso e preoccupante, che a volte si manifesta in forme di rifiuto totale della disciplina e della razionalit che la caratterizza, e davanti al quale l'insegnante si sente impotente e frustrato. Il testo intende dare strumenti agli insegnanti per affrontare... more...
Improving Mathematics and Science Education
RAND Corporation 2006; US$ 9.95The term reform-oriented teaching describes a collection of instructional practices that are designed to engage students as active participants in their own learning and to enhance the development of complex cognitive skills and processes. This monograph presents the findings of a multiyear National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded study of the effectiveness... more...
Primary Mathematics for Teaching Assistants
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 37.95This easy-to-use and accessible book has been specifically written for teaching assistants. It is packed with practical activities, ideas and strategies to help you to enhance your pupils? numeracy and mathematics skills and build on your own subject knowledge. This book: includes a cross-curricular focus that shows how to stop pupils forgetting... more...
Introducing Difficult Mathematics Topics in the Elementary Classroom
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 37.95This exciting text for the pre-service elementary teacher provides hands on mathematics lessons they can use to introduce mathematical concepts and skills that students find particularly challenging. Each chapter is divided into four sections: The Activity employs an engaging thought experiment to help the reader "visit a classroom" to understand... more...
Rethinking School Mathematics
SAGE Publications 2007; US$ 32.00Why is it that so many pupils are put off by maths, seeing it as uninspiring and irrelevant, and that so many choose to drop it as soon as they can? Why is it socially acceptable to be bad at maths? Does the maths curriculum really prepare pupils for life? This book presents some answers to these questions, helping teachers to think through... more...
Patterns of Change
Springer 2008; US$ 159.00The book offers a reconstruction of linguistic innovations in the history of mathematics. It argues that there are at least three ways in which the language of mathematics can be changed. As illustration of changes of the first kind, called re-codings, is the development along the line: synthetic geometry, analytic geometry, fractal geometry, and set... more...
Mathematics Teachers at Work
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 160.00This book compiles and synthesizes existing research on teachers? use of mathematics curriculum materials and the impact of curriculum materials on teaching and teachers, with a particular emphasis on ? but not restricted to ? those materials developed in the 1990s in response to the NCTM?s Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. Despite... more...









