Mathematics Books

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11. Becoming a Primary Mathematics Specialist Teacher

    By Gina Donaldson, Jenny Field, Dave Harries, Clare Tope, Helen Taylor

    What is the role of the mathematics specialist? What is deep subject knowledge in mathematics? What sort of pedagogical knowledge does a mathematics specialist need? How can you best support your colleagues to improve mathematics teaching and learning? Becoming a Primary Mathematics Specialist...

    Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
12. More Trouble with Maths

    A complete guide to identifying and diagnosing mathematical difficulties

    By Steve Chinn

    Series: David Fulton / Nasen

    There are many factors that can contribute to the learning difficulties children and adults have with mathematics. These include poor working memory, difficulties in retrieving so-called ‘basic’ facts and the ability to remember and apply formulas and procedures correctly. This highly practical...

    Published March 26th 2012 by Routledge
13. MORE! Teaching Fractions and Ratios for Understanding

    In-Depth Discussion and Reasoning Activities, 3rd Edition

    By Susan J. Lamon

    More is not an answer key but a resource that provides the scaffolding for the groundbreaking approach to fraction and ratio instruction presented in its companion text, Teaching Fractions and Ratios. Keeping the focus on the reasoning needed to properly understand and teach rational numbers, More...

    Published October 25th 2011 by Routledge
14. Teaching Fractions and Ratios for Understanding

    Essential Content Knowledge and Instructional Strategies for Teachers, 3rd Edition

    By Susan J. Lamon

    For over a decade, Teaching Fractions and Ratios for Understanding has pushed readers beyond the limits of their current understanding of fractions and rational numbers, challenging them to refine and explain their thinking without falling back on rules and procedures they have relied on...

    Published October 18th 2011 by Routledge
15. The Impact of Reform Instruction on Student Mathematics Achievement

    An Example of a Summative Evaluation of a Standards-Based Curriculum

    By Thomas A. Romberg, Mary C. Shafer

    Series: Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series

    Summarizing data derived from a four-year combined longitudinal/ cross-sectional comparative study of the implementation of one standards-based middle school curriculum program, Mathematics in Context, this book demonstrates the challenges of conducting comparative longitudinal research in the...

    Published October 4th 2011 by Routledge
16. The Trouble with Maths

    A Practical Guide to Helping Learners with Numeracy Difficulties, 2nd Edition

    By Steve Chinn

    Now in a second edition, the award-winning The Trouble with Maths offers important insights into the often confusing world of numeracy. By looking at learning difficulties in maths from several perspectives, including the language of mathematics, thinking styles and the demands of individual topics...

    Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
17. Mathematics Teachers at Work

    Connecting Curriculum Materials and Classroom Instruction

    Edited by Janine T. Remillard, Beth A. Herbel-Eisenmann, Gwendolyn M. Lloyd

    Series: Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series

    This 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...

    Published August 11th 2011 by Routledge
18. Geometry as Objective Science in Elementary School Classrooms

    Mathematics in the Flesh

    By Wolff-Michael Roth

    Series: Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education

    This study examines the origins of geometry in and out of the intuitively given everyday lifeworlds of children in a second-grade mathematics class. These lifeworlds, though pre-geometric, are not without model objects that denote and come to anchor geometric idealities that they...

    Published March 27th 2011 by Routledge
19. What Does Understanding Mathematics Mean for Teachers?

    Relationship as a Metaphor for Knowing

    By Yuichi Handa

    Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series

    This book opens up alternative ways of thinking and talking about ways in which a person can "know" a subject (in this case, mathematics), leading to a reconsideration of what it may mean to be a teacher of that subject. In a number of European languages, a distinction is made in ways of knowing...

    Published March 2nd 2011 by Routledge
20. Mathematics Teacher Noticing

    Seeing Through Teachers' Eyes

    Edited by Miriam Sherin, Vicki Jacobs, Randy Philipp

    Series: Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series

    Mathematics Teacher Noticing is the first book to examine research on the particular type of noticing done by teachers---how teachers pay attention to and make sense of what happens in the complexity of instructional situations. In the midst of all that is happening in a classroom, where do...

    Published December 19th 2010 by Routledge