What's Math Got to Do with It?: Helping Children Learn to Love Their Least Favorite Subject-and Why It's Important for America

Jo Boaler

Viking Adult | 2008| 288 páginas | rar-epub | Mb

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A 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. According to Jo Boaler, who was a professor of mathematics education at Stanford University for nine years, statistics like these are becoming all too common—we have reached the point of crisis, and a new course of action is crucial.

In this straightforward and inspiring book, Boaler outlines the nature of the problem by following the progress of students in middle and high schools over a number of years, to find out which teaching methods are exciting students and getting results. Based on her research, she presents concrete solutions that will help reverse the trend, including classroom approaches, essential strategies for students, advice for parents on how to help children enjoy mathematics, and ways to work with teachers in schools.

The United States is continuing to fall rapidly behind the rest of the developed world when it comes to math education, and the future of our economy depends on the quality of teaching that our children receive today. In What’s Math Got to Do with It?, Jo Boaler offers us a new way forward, making this book in dispensable for all parents and educators, as well as anyone interested in the mathematical and scientific future of our society

Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
1 / What Is Math? - And Why Do We All Need It?
2 / What’s Going Wrong in Classrooms? - Identifying the Problems
3 / A Vision for a Better Future - Effective Classroom Approaches
4 / Taming the Monster - New Forms of Testing That Encourage Learning
5 / Stuck in the Slow Lane - How American Grouping Systems Perpetuate Low Achievement
6 / Paying the Price for Sugar and Spice - How Girls and Women Are Kept Out of  ...
7 / Key Strategies and Ways of Working
8 / Giving Children the Best Mathematical Start - Activities and Advice
9 / Making a Difference through Work with Schools
Appendix A - Solutions to the Mathematics Problems
Appendix B - Mathematics Curricula
Appendix C - Recommended Math Puzzle Books (in order of difficulty)
Notes

Index

Livros da mesma autora, neste blog:

Experiencing school mathematics : traditional and reform approaches to teaching and their impact on student learning por Jo Boaler Idioma: Inglês   Editora: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum, 2002.

Multiple perspectives on mathematics teaching and learning por Jo Boaler Idioma: Inglês   Editora: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.