Mathematics Classrooms That Promote Understanding

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Pub. Date: 1999-04-01
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

Synthesizes the implications of research done by the National Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences on integrating two somewhat disparate bodies of scholarly inquiry: the studies of teaching and the study of learning mathematics.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
PART I. SETTING THE STAGE 1(42)
Mathematics Worth Teaching, Mathematics Worth Understanding
3(16)
Thomas A. Romberg
James J. Kaput
Teaching and Learning Mathematics With Understanding
19(14)
Thomas P. Carpenter
Richard Lehrer
Equity as a Value-Added Dimension in Teaching for Understanding in School Mathematics
33(10)
Walter G. Secada
Patricia Williams Berman
PART II: CLASSROOMS THAT PROMOTE UNDERSTANDING 43(114)
Learning Basic Number Concepts and Skills as Problem Solving
45(18)
Thomas P. Carpenter
Elizabeth Fennema
Karen Fuson
James Hiebert
Piet Human
Hanlie Murray
Alwyn Olivier
Diana Wearne
Building on Children's Intuitions to Develop Mathematical Understanding of Space
63(26)
Richard Lehrer
Cathy Jacobson
Vera Kemeny
Dolores Strom
Promoting Learning in Middle-Grades Mathematics
89(20)
Judith Sowder
Randolph Philipp
Understanding of Statistics
109(24)
Susanne P. Lajoie
Teaching and Learning a New Algebra
133(24)
James J. Kaput
PART III: DEVELOPING CLASSROOMS THAT PROMOTE UNDERSTANDING 157(44)
Assessment in Classrooms That Promote Understanding
159(26)
Mary C. Shafer
Thomas A. Romberg
Creating Classrooms That Promote Understanding
185(16)
Elizabeth Fennema
Judith Sowder
Thomas P. Carpenter
Author Index 201(2)
Subject Index 203

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