Facilitators Guide To Ways To Think About Mathematics

Author : Steven Benson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781412905213
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facilitator's Guide to Ways to Think about Mathematics written by Steven Benson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National and state standards and frameworks suggest that mathematical investigation, problem solving, and exploratory learning should play a central role in mathematics lessons. It is therefore necessary for teachers to experience mathematical explorations as learners themselves, which places new demands on professional development facilitators and preservice educators. This guide provides resources for facilitators to use while they are planning and implementing courses and workshops using Ways to Think About Mathematics.

Author : Steven Benson
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 9781412905206
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facilitator's Guide to Ways to Think about Mathematics written by Steven Benson and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facilitating mathematical investigations with teachers will help improve their teaching! Because a student's learning depends so heavily on teacher quality, districts and state departments of education, colleges, and universities are called upon to strengthen their teacher preparation and professional development programs. Yet college mathematics courses are often criticized for being disconnected from the mathematics that teachers are asked to teach. The Facilitator's Guide to Ways to Think About Mathematics is designed to close this gap. National and state standards and frameworks suggest that mathematical investigation, problem solving, and exploratory learning should play a central role in mathematics lessons. It is therefore necessary for teachers to experience mathematical explorations as learners themselves, which places new demands on professional development facilitators and preservice educators. This guide provides resources for facilitators to use while they are planning and implementing courses and workshops using Ways to Think About Mathematics. This guide and the accompanying CD-ROM contain: Commentary on the activities Pedagogical suggestions (materials sequencing, promoting active participation, adapting to the needs of particular teachers) Various solution strategies Additional reading and problems tied to the content of the main text Sample solutions for all problems and discussion questions Ways to Think About Mathematics and the Facilitator's Guide will provide staff developers, preservice educators, and math department chairs with all the necessary tools to provide high-quality staff development in secondary mathematics. The materials were funded by the National Science Foundation and successfully field-tested in a wide variety of professional development and preservice settings. CD-ROM is PC and Mac compatible and not sold separately.

Author : David A. Sousa
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 141296590X
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facilitator's Guide, How the Brain Learns Mathematics written by David A. Sousa and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text offers a unique and simplified four-step model for teaching mathematics to PreK--12 students that helps teachers consistently relate what learners experience in the classroom to concrete, real-world applications.

Author : Craig Barton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781943920587
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How I Wish I'd Taught Maths written by Craig Barton and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought to an American audience for the first time, How I Wish I'd Taught Maths is the story of an experienced and successful math teacher's journey into the world of research, and how it has entirely transformed his classroom.

Author : Steve Benson
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780761931058
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ways to Think About Mathematics written by Steve Benson and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2004-10-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funded by the National Science Foundation and successfully field-tested in a variety of settings, the materials presented give teachers the opportunity to grow as learners for the classes they teach.

Author : Geoff Krall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003839835
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Necessary Conditions written by Geoff Krall and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During his years working as an instructional coach for a national network of schools, Geoff Krall had the chance to witness several inspirational moments when math class comes alive for middle or high school students - when it is challenging but also fun, creative, and interactive. In Necessary Conditions: Teaching Secondary Math with Academic Safety, Quality Tasks, and Effective Facilitation, Krall documents the essential ingredients that produce these sorts of moments on a regular basis and for all students. They are Academic Safety, Quality Tasks, and Effective Facilitation. Academic Safety: Krall implements equitable classroom experiences that help fight stigmas associated with race and gender in schools. This allows students to feel socially and emotionally secure while nurturing their identities as mathematicians and increasing engagement during classroom discussions Quality Tasks: Teachers can adapt or create dynamic, student-centered lessons that break down math into small, manageable sections, removing the frustrations felt by students who aren't considered math people Effective Facilitation: This book shows how to incorporate teaching moves and math routines designed for engagement, persistence, and interactivity. Teachers can allow students to explore safely while maintaining consistent classroom expectations. "My work as a math instructional coach for a network of schools has afforded me the unique opportunity to visit exceptional teachers across the country, documenting their tasks, teaching moves, and academically safe learning environments. You'll experience dispatches from these effective classrooms in which we'll observe how teachers attend to all three elements that make up the ecosystem." - Geoff Krall from his book, Necessary Conditions.

Author : Rose Mary Zbiek
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1641130814
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facilitator's Guidebook for Use of Mathematics Situations in Professional Learning written by Rose Mary Zbiek and published by IAP. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The depth and breadth of a mathematics teacher’s understanding of mathematics matter most as the teacher engages in the daily work of teaching. One of the major challenges to teachers is to be ready to draw on the relevant mathematical ideas from different areas of the school curriculum and from their postsecondary mathematics experiences that can be helpful in explaining ideas to students, making instructional decisions, creating examples, and engaging in other aspects of their daily work. Being mathematically ready and confident requires teachers to engage in ongoing professional learning that helps them to connect mathematics to events like those they live on a daily basis. The purpose of this volume is to provide teachers, teacher educators, and other facilitators of professional learning opportunities with examples of authentic events and tools for discussing those events in professional learning settings. The work shared in Facilitator’s Guidebook for Use of Mathematics Situations in Professional Learning (Guidebook) resulted from a collaborative effort of school mathematics supervisors and university mathematics educators. The collaborators joined their varied experiences as teachers, coaches, supervisors, teacher educators, and researchers to suggest ways to scaffold activities, encourage discussion, and instigate reflection with teacher–participants of differing mathematics backgrounds and with varying teaching assignments. Each guide has ideas for engaging and furthering mathematical thought across a range of facilitator and participant mathematics backgrounds and draws on the collaborators’ uses of the Situations with in-service and prospective teachers. The events and mathematical ideas connected to each event come from Situations in Mathematical Understanding for Secondary Teaching: A Framework and Classroom-Based Situations. A Situation is a description of a classroom-related event and the mathematics related to it. For each of six Situations, school and university collaborators developed a facilitator’s guide that presents ideas and options for engaging teachers with the event and the mathematical ideas. The Guidebook also contains suggestions for how teachers and others might develop new Situations based on events from their own classrooms as a form of professional learning. Both teacher educators and school-based facilitators can use this volume to structure sessions and inspire ideas for professional learning activities that are rooted in the daily work of mathematics teachers and students.

Author : Antonia Cameron
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Working with the Ratio Table, Grades 5-8 written by Antonia Cameron and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their series of professional books for teachers, Young Mathematicians at Work, Catherine Twomey Fosnot and Maarten Dolk described Mathematics in the City, an innovative project where teachers helped young children construct a deep understanding of number and operation in a math-workshop environment. Now they and two colleagues from the project have developed a flexible, video-based, digital context for inquiry into the teaching and learning of mathematics that will change how professional development is conducted. Designed for you, the workshop leader or college instructor, the Working with the Ratio Table Resource Package enables your in- or preservice teachers to not only watch but interact with video that depicts classroom teachers as they listen to, question, and interpret students' thinking; develop connections between mathematical ideas and strategies; and, ultimately, develop vibrant mathematical communities in their classrooms. The Resource Package includes three valuable components: A completely interactive CD-ROM, where your workshop participants can explore-independently or under your guidance-videos of instruction and assessment; sample children's work over time to analyze development; take and save notes on what they see; capture specific frames or footage; and then email their captured video clips and notes to other members of your professional development workshop. The context of the classroom will be at the fingertips of your participants for exploration. A Professional Development Overview Manual that provides general advice on how you can use the CD-ROM for staff development. A Facilitator's Guide whose field-tested content is specific to the CD-ROM and includes helpful suggestions for using video clips and student examples on the CD to design rich professional development experiences; sample dialogue to help you anticipate what your participants might say; tips for facilitating discussions among teachers; and descriptions of the mathematical ideas being explored. In Working with the Ratio Table, your workshop participants will observe sixth graders as they construct some of the big ideas related to fractions, making connections between ratios and equivalence and uncovering landmark division strategies like comparison through common denominators. By studying the use of carefully crafted problems designed both to generate a range of solution strategies and to highlight the power of ratio tables and other models for division, teachers will discover what a valuable tool real-life contexts are for building a solid foundation in mathematics. System Requirements for CD-ROM Windows/PC Pentium II Processor 266MHz (or higher) Windows 98 (or higher) 64 MB RAM (more recommended) SVGA Color Display (or better) 4x CD-ROM Drive (or faster) Sound Card 16-bit Flash(TM) Player and Acrobat Reader(R) Quicktime 6.0 (or higher) Mac PowerPC Processor G3/233MHz (or higher) System 9.2 or 10.2 (or higher) 64 MB RAM (more recommended) SVGA Color Display (or better) 4x CD-ROM Drive (or faster) Sound Card 16-bit Flash(TM) Player and Acrobat Reader(R) Quicktime 6.0 (or higher) *Please note CD-ROM is not compatible with Mac OS X 10.7

Author : Randolph Philipp
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 : 9780132099400
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facilitator's Guide for IMAP Integrating Mathematics and Pedagogy written by Randolph Philipp and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MARKET: Perfect for mathematics coaches, department supervisors, staff trainers, and school leaders to use in book study sessions, workshops, and institutes.

Author : Deborah Schifter
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781508446194
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reasoning Algebraically about Operations Facilitator's Guide written by Deborah Schifter and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the "big ideas" in elementary school mathematics? How do students understand them? How can teachers best offer help and support as their students grapple with these ideas? These and other questions about the practice of teaching K-8 mathematics are the focus of Developing Mathematical Ideas (DMI), a powerful, engaging professional development curriculum for current and future teachers. At the heart of a DMI seminar is the casebook, sets of classroom episodes (cases) illustrating student thinking as described by their teachers. In addition to case discussions, the curriculum offers teachers opportunities: to explore mathematics in lessons led by facilitators; to share and discuss the work of their own students; to view and discuss DVD clips of mathematics classrooms; to write their own classroom cases; and to read overviews of related research.