Balancing the Common Core Curriculum in Middle School Education: Composing Archimedes' Lever, the Equation, and the Sentence as an Interdisciplinary U

ISBN-13: 9783319834429 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 227 str.

James H. Bunn

Spis treści

Introduction: Balance at the Core

Chapter 1: The Archimedean Lever

Chapter 2: The Equation

Chapter 3: The Sentence

Chapter 4: Seeking a Middle Measure

O autorze

James H. Bunn is Professor Emeritus of English at the University at Buffalo, USA. 

Blurb

This book examines the idea of ‘good education’ which is thought to include a scientific and technical component, a mathematical component, a writing component, and an ethical and aesthetic component. Often taught separately in schools and in the Common Core Curriculum, Bunn proposes a new three-way intersection in these teachings: the basic sciences and mechanics of levering on a seesaw, the basic formulations of patterning an algebraic equation, and the basic rules for writing a sentence in English. In all three forms of inquiry, balance is the mainstay through which problems in US middle school education are brought together and analyzed.