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1. Culturally Responsive Mathematics Education

   Edited by Brian Greer, Swapna Mukhopadhyay, Arthur B. Powell, Sharon Nelson-Barber

   Series: Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series

   At a time of rapid demographic change and amidst the many educational challenges facing the US, this critical new collection presents mathematics education from a culturally responsive perspective. It tackles the most crucial issues of teaching mathematics to an ethnically diverse school population...

   Published March 26th 2009 by Routledge
2. Blue Genes

   Sharing and Conserving the World's Aquatic Biodiversity

   By David Greer, Brian Harvey

   The advance of genetic sciences has led to a 'blue revolution' in the way we use aquatic biodiversity. By 2020, the world will be eating almost as much farmed as wild fish, marine bacteria could yield the cure for cancer and deep-sea bacteria may be exploited to gobble up oil spills. Science is...

   Published August 31st 2004 by Routledge
3. Theories of Mathematical Learning

   Edited by Leslie P. Steffe, Pearla Nesher, Paul Cobb, Bharath Sriraman, Brian Greer

   Chemists, working with only mortars and pestles, could not get very far unless they had mathematical models to explain what was happening "inside" of their elements of experience -- an example of what could be termed mathematical learning. This volume contains the proceedings of Work Group 4:...

   Published July 31st 1996 by Routledge