1st Edition

Learning Mathematics From Hierarchies to Networks

Edited By Prof Leone Burton, Leone Burton Copyright 1999
280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

Learning Mathematics brings together a collection of interrelated and forward-looking chapters by internationally recognized experts that explores changes in the theories and practices of learning (and teaching) mathematics. The authors reject a traditional, transmission view of the teaching of mathematics which has proved so ineffective for learning. In its place they offer information gathered... Read more
Section One: chapters by Jere Confrey, Leone Burton, Merrilyn Goos, Peter Galbraith and peter Renshaw, Mats Martinsson and Ference MArton, Walter Secada. Section Two: chapters by Stephen Lerman, Kathryn Crawford, Sal Restivo, JAnet Kaahwa and Suzanne Damarin. Section 3: chapters by Barbara Jaworski, Terry Wood and Tammy Turner-Vorbeck, John Mason, Thomas Kieren, Susan Pirie and Lynn Gordon Calvert, Hilary Povey and Leone Burton with Corinne Angier and Mark Boylan, Christine Keitel.

Biography

Leone Burton

'... a treasure chest of big ideas - not just for tomorrow's lesson, but for a lifetime of them.' - The Times Educational Supplement