Providing a foundation for teaching mathematics in the middle grades /
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Imprint: | Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1995. |
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Description: | viii, 336 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | SUNY series, reform in mathematics education |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2388604 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Continuing the Mathematical Preparation of Middle-Grade Teachers: An Introduction
- Part 1. Mathematics for the Middle Grades
- 2. Instructing for Rational Number Sense
- 3. Creating Spaces for Learning Fractions
- 4. Critical Ideas, Informal Knowledge, and Understanding Fractions
- 5. Multiplication and Division of Fractions: The Search for Meaning
- 6. Addressing the Story-Problem Problem
- 7. From Naive-Interpretist to Operation-Conserver
- 8. Ratio and Proportion: Elementary Didactical Phenomenology
- 9. Notation, Convention, and Quantity in Elementary Mathematics
- 10. The Value of Interaction in Promoting Teaching Growth
- Part II. Case Studies: Catalysts for Change
- 11. Instructional Effects of Knowledge Of and About Mathematics: A Case Study
- 12. Orchestrating, Promoting, and Enhancing Mathematical Discourse in the Middle Grades: A Case Study
- 13. A Responsible Mathematics Teacher and the Choices She Makes: A Case Study
- List of Contributors
- Index