Facilitator's Guide to Ways to Think about Mathematics / Edition 1

Facilitator's Guide to Ways to Think about Mathematics / Edition 1

by Steven Benson
ISBN-10:
1412905206
ISBN-13:
9781412905206
Pub. Date:
10/06/2004
Publisher:
Corwin Publishers
ISBN-10:
1412905206
ISBN-13:
9781412905206
Pub. Date:
10/06/2004
Publisher:
Corwin Publishers
Facilitator's Guide to Ways to Think about Mathematics / Edition 1

Facilitator's Guide to Ways to Think about Mathematics / Edition 1

by Steven Benson

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Overview

Facilitating mathematical investigations with teachers will help improve their teaching! Because a student's learning depends so heavily on teacher quality, districts and state departments of education, colleges, and universities are called upon to strengthen their teacher preparation and professional development programs. Yet college mathematics courses are often criticized for being disconnected from the mathematics that teachers are asked to teach. The Facilitator's Guide for Ways to Think About Mathematics is designed to close this gap. National and state standards and frameworks suggest that mathematical investigation, problem solving, and exploratory learning should play a central role in mathematics lessons. It is therefore necessary for teachers to experience mathematical explorations as learners themselves, which places new demands on professional development facilitators and preservice educators. This guide provides resources for facilitators to use while they are planning and implementing courses and workshops using Ways to Think About Mathematics. This guide and the accompanying CD-ROM contain: -Commentary on the activities -Pedagogical suggestions (materials sequencing, promoting active participation, adapting to the needs of particular teachers) -Various solution strategies -Additional reading and problems tied to the content of the main text -Sample solutions for all problems and discussion questions Ways to Think About Mathematics and the Facilitator's Guide will provide staff developers, preservice educators, and math department chairs with all the necessary tools to provide high-quality staff development in secondary mathematics. The materials were funded by the National Science Foundation and successfully field-tested in a wide variety of professional development and preservice settings.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781412905206
Publisher: Corwin Publishers
Publication date: 10/06/2004
Series: 1-Off Ser.
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 140
Product dimensions: 8.48(w) x 10.98(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Prefacevi
IWhat is Mathematical Investigation?1
1Problem solving and problem posing3
2You've got a conjecture-now what?8
3Do it yourself10
4You know the answer? Prove it11
5Discerning what is, predicting what might be12
IIDissections and Area16
1Be a mathematical cut-up17
2Making assumptions, checking procedures19
3Thinking about area21
4Areas of nonpolygonal regions29
5Transformations and area38
IIILinearity and Proportional Reasoning42
1Mix it up43
2Filling in the gaps47
3Guess my rule54
4Functions of two variables60
5From cups to vectors66
IVPythagoras and Cousins72
1What would Pythagoras do?73
2Puzzling out some proofs78
3Pythagoras's second cousins86
4Pythagorean triples (and cousins)92
5More classroom cousins97
VPascal's Revenge: Combinatorial Algebra101
1Trains of thought102
2Getting there105
3Trains and paths and triangles, oh my!112
4Binomial theorem connection116
5Supercalifragilisticgeneratingfunctionology122
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