Developing Primary Mathematics Teaching

Reflecting on Practice with the Knowledge Quartet

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

How can KS1/2 teachers improve their mathematics teaching? This book helps readers to become better, more confident teachers of mathematics by enabling them to focus critically on what they know and what they do in the classroom. Building on their close observation of primary mathematics classrooms, the authors provide those starting out in the teaching profession with a four-stage framework which acts as a tool of support for developing their teaching:

-making sense of foundation knowledge - focusing on what teachers know about mathematics

-transforming knowledge - representing mathematics to learners through examples, analogies, illustrations and demonstrations

-connection - helping learners to make sense of mathematics through understanding how ideas and concepts are linked to each other

-contingency - what to do when the unexpected happens

Each chapter includes practical activities, lesson descriptions and extracts of classroom transcripts to help teachers reflect on effective practice.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-03-11
Mått:186 x 232 x undefined mm
Vikt:610 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Upplaga:1
Förlag:SAGE Publications
ISBN:9781412948470

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Pedagogisk metodik inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Recensioner i media

This is a very useful text which develops a strong focus on teacher knowledge in the context of teaching mathematics. A strength of the book is the way it connects to concrete examples of lessons and is supported by video clips. A significant issue is that the CD Rom is NOT provided when buying the book from some online retailers and the video materials are NOT open access. Publishers need to smell the coffee and increase their sales by making multi-media resources open access.

Innehållsförteckning

Inside Naomi′s ClassroomKnowledge for teaching mathematics: introducing the Knowledge Quartet frameworkTransformation: using and understanding representations in mathematics teachingTransformation: using examples in mathematics teachingMaking connections in mathematics teachingContingency: tales of the unexpected!Foundation knowledge for teaching mathematicsUsing the Knowledge Quartet to reflect on mathematics teaching