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1. How Chinese Teach Mathematics and Improve Teaching

   Edited by Yeping Li, Rongjin Huang

   Series: Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series

   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 multiple perspectives in viewing and learning about some...

   Published July 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. Transnational and Borderland Studies in Mathematics Education

   Edited by Richard S. Kitchen, Marta Civil

   Series: Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series

   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...

   Published October 11th 2010 by Routledge
6. How We Think

   A Theory of Goal-Oriented Decision Making and its Educational Applications

   By Alan H. Schoenfeld

   Series: Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series

   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...

   Published October 4th 2010 by Routledge
7. Teaching and Learning Proof Across the Grades

   A K-16 Perspective

   Edited by Despina A. Stylianou, Maria L. Blanton, Eric J. Knuth

   Series: Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series

   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...

   Published August 10th 2010 by Routledge
8. The Mathematics that Every Secondary School Math Teacher Needs to Know

   By Alan Sultan, Alice F. Artzt

   Series: Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series

   What knowledge of mathematics do secondary school math teachers need to facilitate understanding, competency, and interest in mathematics for all of their students? This unique text and resource bridges the gap between the mathematics learned in college and the mathematics taught in secondary...

   Published July 27th 2010 by Routledge
9. A Focus on Fractions

   Bringing Research to the Classroom

   By Marjorie M. Petit, Robert E. Laird, Edwin L. Marsden

   Series: Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series

   A Focus on Fractions is the first book to make cognitive research on how students develop their understanding of fraction concepts readily accessible and understandable to pre- and in-service K– 8 mathematics educators. This important resource assists teachers in translating research findings...

   Published May 9th 2010 by Routledge
10. Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics

    Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States, 2nd Edition

    By Liping Ma

    Series: Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series

    Studies of teachers in the U.S. often document insufficient subject matter knowledge in mathematics. Yet, these studies give few examples of the knowledge teachers need to support teaching, particularly the kind of teaching demanded by recent reforms in mathematics education. Knowing and Teaching...

    Published January 24th 2010 by Routledge