Routledge | 2007 | páginas | rar - pdf | Mb
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This book argues that even in today's high-stakes testing environment, 'teaching to the test' need not be teachers’ only focus as they introduce young children to mathematics. Judith McVarish demonstrates how building a community of learners and using problem solving to engage students can help teachers encourage students’ disposition to creative thinking and reasoning—skills that can otherwise become lost due to the pressure of the many other expectations placed upon both teachers and students. This book offers strategies for infusing mathematics learning and reasoning into elementary school classrooms while meeting curriculum and testing mandates. The teacher researcher component of each chapter provides a vehicle for teachers to bring their own expertise and questions back into the teaching and learning equation.
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Series Editor’s Foreword xi
Chapter 1 Setting the Stage . 1
Chapter 2 What Does the Room Teach? 25
Chapter 3 Who Asks the Questions? Who Answers Them? 43
Chapter 4 How Can I Tune Transitions to a New Key? 65
Chapter 5 What Is Real about Homework? . 79
Chapter 6 How Do I De-Fang the Test? . 99
Chapter 7 How Can We Take Critical Thinking Beyond the Classroom? 119
Chapter 8 What Do Parents Know? . 139
Chapter 9 Is Thinking about Thinking Just a Play on Words? . 155
References 173
Index 177
