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  • Perspectives on the Teaching of Geometry for the 21st Century

    An ICMI Study

    Edited by V. Villani, C. Mammana ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    In recent years geometry seems to have lost large parts of its former central position in mathematics teaching in most countries. However, new trends have begun to counteract this tendency. There is an increasing awareness that geometry plays a key role in mathematics and learning mathematics. Although geometry has been eclipsed in the mathematics curriculum, research in geometry has blossomed as ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • A Mathematician's Lament

    How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

    by Paul Lockhart ...
    “One of the best critiques of current K-12 mathematics education I have ever seen, written by a first-class research mathematician who elected to devote his teaching career to K-12 education.” —Keith Devlin, NPR’s “Math Guy”A brilliant research mathematician reveals math to be a creative art form on par with painting, poetry, and sculpture, and rejects the standard anxiety-producing teaching ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

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  • Researching the History of Mathematics Education

    An International Overview

    Edited by Alexander Karp, Fulvia Furinghetti ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book offers insights into the history of mathematics education, covering both the current state of the art of research and the methodology of the field. History of mathematics education is treated in the book as a part of social history. This book grew out of the presentations delivered at the International Congress on Mathematics Education in Hamburg. Modern development and growing ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Characterizing Pedagogical Flow

    An Investigation of Mathematics and Science Teaching in Six Countries

    Edited by W.H. Schmidt ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Characterizing Pedagogical Flow presents conclusions from a multi-disciplinary, multi-national research project blending quantitative and qualitative approaches through a discourse methodology. The work produced portraits of mathematics and science education that were dramatically different for each of the countries involved: France, Japan, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States. To ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • On the Teaching of Linear Algebra

    Edited by J.-L. Dorier ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    To a large extent, it lies, no doubt, in what is presented in this work under the title of ‘meta lever‘, a method which it is certainly interesting to develop and further refine. There exists in mathematics courses a strange prudery which forbids one to ask questions such as, ‹‹ Why are we doing this? », ‹‹ At what is the objective aimed? », whereas it is usually easy to reply to such questions, ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Shifts in the Field of Mathematics Education

    Stephen Lerman and the turn to the social

    Edited by Peter Gates, Robyn Jorgensen (Zevenbergen) ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Professor Stephen Lerman has been a leader in the field of mathematics education for thirty years. His work is extensive, making many significant contributions to a number of key areas of research. Stephen retired from South Bank University in 2012, where he had worked for over 20 years, though he continues to work at Loughborough University. In this book several of his long standing colleagues ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Mathematics Teacher Preparation in Central America and the Caribbean

    The Cases of Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela

    Edited by Angel Ruiz ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This Open Access book is an excellent synthesis of the initial and continuing preparation for Mathematics Teaching in Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic and Venezuela, from which comparative analyses can be made that show similarities and differences, and highlight various perspectives.In August 2012, a workshop of the Capacity and Networking Project (CANP) of the International Commission on ... Read more

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  • Comprehensive Teacher Induction

    Systems for Early Career Learning

    by E.D. Britton, L. Paine, S. Raizen ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides a detailed examination of how systems located within five countries shape the early career learning of beginning teachers. It describes, discusses and analyzes comprehensive teacher induction found within France, Japan, New Zealand, Shanghai and Switzerland. We refer to the phenomena we observed as induction ‘systems’ because they are am- tious, substantial and established: all ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Turning Points in the History of Mathematics

    by Israel Kleiner, Hardy Grant ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book explores some of the major turning points in the history of mathematics, ranging from ancient Greece to the present, demonstrating the drama that has often been a part of its evolution. Studying these breakthroughs, transitions, and revolutions, their stumbling-blocks and their triumphs, can help illuminate the importance of the history of mathematics for its teaching, learning, and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Chinese Students' Higher Achievement in Mathematics

    Comparison of Mathematics Education of Australian and Chinese Primary Schools

    by Dacheng Zhao ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book shares insights into the achievement gap in mathematics between East Asian and Western countries, and the ways to improve students’ mathematics achievements. Especially, it highlights the importance to integrate case studies with large-scale international comparative studies in general, and comparative studies of mathematics education in particular. This book is a must-read for ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Many Visions, Many Aims

    Volume 2: A Cross-National Investigation of Curricular Intensions in School Science

    Edited by W.H. Schmidt, S. Raizen, E.D. Britton, Leonard J. Bianchi, Richard G. Wolfe ...
    PREFACE The Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), sponsored by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) and the g- ernments of the participating countries, is acomparative study of education in mathematics and the sciences conducted in approximately 50 educational systems on six continents. The goal of TIMSS is to measure student ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Rewriting the History of School Mathematics in North America 1607-1861

    The Central Role of Cyphering Books

    by Nerida Ellerton, M.A. (Ken) Clements ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The focus of this book is the fundamental influence of the cyphering tradition on mathematics education in North American colleges, schools, and apprenticeship training classes between 1607 and 1861. It is the first book on the history of North American mathematics education to be written from that perspective. The principal data source is a set of 207 handwritten cyphering books that have never ... Read more

    $89.09 USD