Whole Class Mathematics Discussions: Improving In-Depth Mathematical Thinking and Learning

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ISBN: 9780132117333
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Anul publicării: 2012
Pagini: 168

DESCRIERE

Filled with research-based ideas, practical strategies and tools, this book and the accompanying PDToolkit website support teachers in facilitating effective whole class discussions to enhance K-8 students' mathematical understanding.



NCTM standards and the Common Core standards emphasize communication as an integral part of how students should learn mathematics. This book provides a comprehensive approach to whole class math discussion and addresses how to set up a classroom, cultivate classroom routines, plan for instruction, facilitate discussions, and assess for future improvement. Reflective questions throughout the book enable teachers to develop professionally and support formal workshop or book study experiences. The accompanying PDToolkit website offers video clips from five real classrooms which illustrate whole class math discussions in action, teacher and student interviews, and chapter PPTs for professional development sessions.



Features

Comprehensive approach to whole class math discussion addresses how to set up a classroom, cultivate classroom routines, plan for instruction, facilitate discussions, and assess for future improvement.

Common Core and the NCTM Standards for communication are emphasized by showing how to use whole class discussions to help students understand math concepts.

A three-level strategy for questioning shows how to facilitate discussions by starting the whole class discussion, helping students identify issues to discuss, and unpacking layers of meaning (explicit, other student solutions, and big ideas).

Strategies for Your Classroom end each chapter and can be implemented immediately and even placed on a clip board to use as a tool during teaching.

Resources and Tools for Book Study end each chapter and include checklists, rubrics, classroom cases, worksheets, Questions for Reflection and Questions for Book Study that can easily be used in PLCs, book study and workshop settings.

PDToolkit site with the text offers video clips of five different classrooms engaging in whole class discussions and teacher and student interviews, chapter PPTs for professional development sessions.

Additional classroom examples appear in each chapter and feature a broad range of K-8 classrooms to help educators see concepts in action.



Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Why Whole Class Discussions?

Chapter2: Designing the Physical Classroom Space for Discussion

Chapter 3: Cultivating Classroom Routines for Student Participation

Chapter 4: What Do We Talk About?: Planning the Discussion

Chapter 5: Teaching Questioning and Mathematical Connections

Chapter 6: Strategies for Evaluating and Improving Your Discussion



Author Bios

Teruni Lamberg is an Associate Professor of Elementary Education at the University of Nevada Reno. She teaches graduate and undergraduate mathematics education courses and is currently Principal Investigator and director of the Lemelson Foundations’ Math and Science Master’s Cohort Program. A former elementary teacher, she received her doctorate from Arizona State University and completed her Post Doctorate work at Vanderbilt University.



Lamberg was the Principal Investigator of the Northeastern Nevada Mathematics Project that was identified by the U.S department of Education as “model project”, as well as the former Chair of the Psychology of Mathematics Education-Northern American Chapter. Additionally, she serves on the board of the Nevada Math Council, works extensively with teachers across the county to support their mathematical teaching, is a frequent speaker at national and international educational conferences, and has published numerous articles on how children learn math and also on teacher learning. Lamberg co-edited the Psychology of Mathematics Education Northern American Chapter Proceedings in 2007 and co- editor of the 2011 Proceedings. Her research interests include children’s mathematical thinking, teacher education and technology in education.

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