Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series
Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States
3rd Edition
By Liping Ma
January 16, 2020
The 20th anniversary edition of this groundbreaking and bestselling volume offers powerful examples of the mathematics that can develop the thinking of elementary school children. Studies of teachers in the U.S. often document insufficient subject matter knowledge in mathematics. Yet, these studies...
The Mathematics That Every Secondary School Math Teacher Needs to Know
2nd Edition
By Alan Sultan, Alice F. Artzt
July 24, 2017
Designed to help pre-service and in-service teachers gain the knowledge they need to facilitate students' understanding, competency, and interest in mathematics, the revised and updated Second Edition of this popular text and resource bridges the gap between the mathematics learned in college ...
Integrating Research on the Graphical Representation of Functions
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas A. Romberg, Elizabeth Fennema, Thomas P. Carpenter
February 29, 2016
This volume focuses on the important mathematical idea of functions that, with the technology of computers and calculators, can be dynamically represented in ways that have not been possible previously. The book's editors contend that as result of recent technological developments combined with the...
Rational Numbers: An Integration of Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas P. Carpenter, Elizabeth Fennema, Thomas A. Romberg
December 18, 2015
Until recently there had been relatively little integration of programs of research on teaching, learning, curriculum, and assessment. However, in the last few years it has become increasingly apparent that a more unified program of research is needed to acquire an understanding of teaching and ...
Transnational and Borderland Studies in Mathematics Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard S. Kitchen, Marta Civil
April 27, 2015
Every year, significant numbers of immigrant children from Mexico enter classrooms in the United States. These immigrants comprise a heterogeneous group of students with diverse needs, abilities, and experiences. Transnational and Borderland Studies in Mathematics Education is the first ...
How Chinese Teach Mathematics and Improve Teaching
1st Edition
Edited
By Yeping Li, Rongjin Huang
June 19, 2013
How Chinese Teach Mathematics and Improve Teaching builds upon existing studies to examine mathematics classroom instruction in China. It combines contributions from Chinese scholars with commentary from key Western scholars to offer a truly systematic examination of some important and distinctive ...
The Impact of Reform Instruction on Student Mathematics Achievement: An Example of a Summative Evaluation of a Standards-Based Curriculum
1st Edition
By Thomas A. Romberg, Mary C. Shafer
October 07, 2011
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 ...
Mathematics Teachers at Work: Connecting Curriculum Materials and Classroom Instruction
1st Edition
Edited
By Janine T. Remillard, Beth A. Herbel-Eisenmann, Gwendolyn M. Lloyd
August 12, 2011
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 ...
Mathematics Teacher Noticing: Seeing Through Teachers' Eyes
1st Edition
Edited
By Miriam Sherin, Vicki Jacobs, Randy Philipp
January 20, 2011
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 ...
How We Think: A Theory of Goal-Oriented Decision Making and its Educational Applications
1st Edition
By Alan H. Schoenfeld
November 16, 2010
Teachers try to help their students learn. But why do they make the particular teaching choices they do? What resources do they draw upon? What accounts for the success or failure of their efforts? In How We Think, esteemed scholar and mathematician, Alan H. Schoenfeld, proposes a groundbreaking ...
Teaching and Learning Proof Across the Grades: A K-16 Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Despina A. Stylianou, Maria L. Blanton, Eric J. Knuth
September 09, 2010
A Co-Publication of Routledge for the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) In recent years there has been increased interest in the nature and role of proof in mathematics education; with many mathematics educators advocating that proof should be a central part of the mathematics ...
Embracing Reason: Egalitarian Ideals and the Teaching of High School Mathematics
1st Edition
By Daniel Chazan, Sandra Callis, Michael Lehman
December 21, 2009
This book tells a single story, in many voices, about a serious and sustained set of changes in mathematics teaching practice in a high school and how those efforts influenced and were influenced by a local university. It includes the writings and perspectives of high school students, high school ...