1st Edition
Measuring and Visualizing Space in Elementary Mathematics Learning
1. Measure is Fundamental 2. The Context, Goals, and Design of the Research 3. Origins of Quantitative Reasoning in the Measure of Length 4. Creating New Quantities in the Dynamic Generation of Area 5. Extending Motion to Three Dimensions: Volume and Its Measure 6. Integrating Figure and Motion in the Measure of Angle 7. Measurement Models of Arithmetic Operations and Rational Number 8. Highlights of Student Learning Research 9. Teacher Learning 10. Measures and Models in Elementary Science
Biography
Richard Lehrer is a Professor of Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt University. Leona Schauble is a Professor of Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt University.
"The authors show exceptional vision, gleaned over many decades, of how teachers can be guided and supported to engender mathematical thinking in conceptually rich ways." -Joanne Mulligan, Hon. Professor of Education in the School of Education, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, as reviwed in Mathematical Thinking and Learning, July 2024
