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  • Teacher Professionalism in the Global South

    A Decolonial Perspective

    by Leon Tikly, Rafael Mitchell, Angeline M. Barrett, Poonam Batra, Alexandra Bernal, Leanne Cameron, Alf Coles, Zawadi Richard Juma, Nidia Aviles Nunez, Julia Paulson, Nigusse Weldemariam Reda, Jennifer Rowsell, Michael Tusiime, Beatriz Vejarano ...
    Series series Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education
    This book provides a decolonial critique of dominant global agendas concerning teacher professionalism and proposes a new understanding based on UNESCO-funded research with teachers based in Colombia, Ethiopia (Tigray), India, Rwanda and Tanzania.Outlining from a teacher’s perspective how teacher professionalism may be conceptualized, this book critiques dominant global narratives and conceptions ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • I Can't Do Maths!

    Why children say it and how to make a difference

    by Professor Professor Alf Coles, Professor Professor Nathalie Sinclair ...
    An insightful, myth-busting book based on one core belief: maths doesn't have to be scary!Exploring the many myths around teaching and learning mathematics, this book offers practical strategies to implement new ways of thinking and inspire teacher and pupil confidence in every primary maths lesson. Whether you're an ECT finding your way around the maths curriculum, or an experienced teacher ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Engaging in Mathematics in the Classroom

    Symbols and experiences

    by Alf Coles ...
    What comes first, class management or student engagement? How can the ‘real world’ be used to engage learners? What is the role of technology in engaging students? And is ‘understanding’ or ‘exam success’ more engaging?In the modern world, success in school mathematics can determine life chances. It is therefore vital to engage children and young people in learning mathematics. Engaging in ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Teaching Secondary Mathematics as if the Planet Matters

    by Alf Coles, Richard Barwell, Tony Cotton, Jan Winter, Laurinda Brown ...
    Series series Teaching... as if the Planet Matters
    ‘This book moves us beyond a theoretical pondering of the issues and makes concrete suggestions for teachers and students for how things can be different in mathematics classrooms. This is long overdue.’Peter Gates, University of NottinghamTeaching Mathematics as if the Planet Matters explores how Mathematics teachers can develop approaches to curriculum and learning which help students understand ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • What is a Mathematical Concept?

    Edited by Elizabeth de Freitas, Nathalie Sinclair, Alf Coles ...
    Responding to widespread interest within cultural studies and social inquiry, this book addresses the question 'what is a mathematical concept?' using a variety of vanguard theories in the humanities and posthumanities. Tapping historical, philosophical, sociological and psychological perspectives, each chapter explores the question of how mathematics comes to matter. Of interest to scholars ... Read more

    $118.89 USD

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  • How to Study as a Mathematics Major

    by Lara Alcock ...
    Every year, thousands of students in the USA declare mathematics as their major. Many are extremely intelligent and hardworking. However, even the best will encounter challenges, because upper-level mathematics involves not only independent study and learning from lectures, but also a fundamental shift from calculation to proof. This shift is demanding but it need not be mysterious -- research has ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Teaching Mathematics in Primary Schools

    Principles for effective practice

    by Robyn Jorgensen ...
    'This is an outstanding book: it should be high on the list of any primary school teacher's set of references and a required text for pre-service teachers.'Australian Primary Mathematics ClassroomIn our technology-rich world, numeracy is just as important as the smartphone in your pocket. Students need to develop mathematical ways of seeing the world and strong problem-solving skills, and those ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Transforming Primary Mathematics

    Understanding classroom tasks, tools and talk

    by Mike Askew ...
    Fully updated to reflect the new curriculum, the revised edition of Transforming Primary Mathematics sets out key theories and cutting-edge research in the field to enable teachers to take a fresh look at how they teach mathematics.The book encourages teachers to reflect on their own beliefs and values about mathematics, and asks them to question whether their current methods meet the needs of all ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • The Psychology of Learning Mathematics

    Expanded American Edition

    by Richard R. Skemp ...
    This classic text presents problems of learning and teaching mathematics from both a psychological and mathematical perspective. The Psychology of Learning Mathematics, already translated into six languages (including Chinese and Japanese), has been revised for this American Edition to include the author's most recent findings on the formation of mathematical concepts, different kinds of imagery, ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Math Teachers Know

    Profound Understanding of Emergent Mathematics

    by Brent Davis, Moshe Renert ...
    What sorts of mathematics competencies must teachers have in order to teach the discipline well? This book offers a novel take on the question. Most research is focused on explicit knowledge–that is, on the sorts of insights that might be specified, catalogued, taught, and tested. In contrast, this book focuses on the tacit dimensions of teachers’ mathematics knowledge that precede and enable ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Mathematics as a Constructive Activity

    Learners Generating Examples

    by Anne Watson, John Mason ...
    Series series Studies in Mathematical Thinking and Learning Series
    This book explains and demonstrates the teaching strategy of asking learners to construct their own examples of mathematical objects. The authors show that the creation of examples can involve transforming and reorganizing knowledge and that, although this is usually done by authors and teachers, if the responsibility for making examples is transferred to learners, their knowledge structures can ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Problem Posing

    Reflections and Applications

    Edited by Stephen I. Brown, Marion I. Walter ...
    As a result of the editors' collaborative teaching at Harvard in the late 1960s, they produced a ground-breaking work -- The Art Of Problem Posing -- which related problem posing strategies to the already popular activity of problem solving. It took the concept of problem posing and created strategies for engaging in that activity as a central theme in mathematics education.Based in part upon that ... Read more

    $52.99 USD