Reconceiving Mathematics Instruction: A Focus on Errors

(Issues in Curriculum Theory, Policy, and Research)
Raffaella Borasi

Praeger | 1996 | 321 páginas |

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Descrição: As dissatisfaction with the current status of school mathematics grows worldwide, educators and professionals alike are calling for reforms and instructional changes. Yet, significant changes can only be achieved if each educator of school mathematics personally rethinks various aspects of mathematics instruction, and identifies concrete ways in which their current practice could be modified. Before such visions can be meaningfully implemented in classrooms, it is important that mathematics teachers and educators examine critically both the assumptions and implications of the vision for school mathematics that the reports propose. This book is intended to support educators in such a challenging enterprise by focusing attention on "errors" and their use in mathematics instruction. Throughout the book, an approach to errors as opportunities for learning and inquiry will be developed and employed both as a means to create the kinds of instructional experiences advocated for school mathematics reform, and as a heuristic to invite reflections about school mathematics as well as mathematics as a discipline. REVIEWS: "...Raffaella Borasi's newest book offers important contributions to the current debate on school mathematics reform." - Journal for Research in Mathematics Education "There are some great bits of philosophy in this book..." - Mathematics Teaching

More Joy of Mathematics: Exploring Mathematics All Around You

Theoni Pappas

Wide World Publishing/Tetra | 1991 | 305 páginas | pdf | 13 Mb

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This sequel to the popular title furthers a reader's appreciation of just how mathematics is connected to the everyday world--and how a grasp of essential concepts can enrich one's life in innumerable ways. This fresh and lively approach to mathematics--appealing even to those who are intimidated by the world of numbers--unlocks the pleasures, mysteries, and practical applications of hundreds of mathematical concepts

Researching Mathematics Classrooms: A Critical Examination of Methodology

Simon Goodchild, Lyn English

Praeger Publishers | 2002 | 232 páginas | rar - PDF | 1,04 MB

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Critique of research methods and methodology is one of several key features of the regular dialogue between researchers. This critique takes place formally at conferences and seminars, and regularly in universities. Published critique is normally separated from the original work. This book brings together the writing of researcher and independent critique. Thus the book exposes to wider scrutiny the dialogue that exists between researchers. It will be of interest to all who are concerned to understand the nature and substance of this critique. The volume comprises a collection of accounts of classroom studies, each complemented by the reaction of an eminent researcher. The accounts and reactions are written to expose the nature of methodology of classroom research. It argues that methodology encompasses the choice of methods and the researchers' beliefs and values.