Engaging Diverse Learners in the Mathematics Classroom: A Functional Language Awareness Approach for Middle and High School Educators

ISBN-13: 9781681256313 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 192 str.

Wayne E. Wright

Spis treści

• About the Online Companion Materials
• About the Author
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
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• Chapter 1: A Functional Language Awareness Approach to Teaching Mathematics
• Objectives
• What we mean by language and literacy
• Solving for area: A language function with many features
• Introducing functional language and language awareness
• Summary
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• Chapter 2: Into the Classroom: Contexts and Activities
• Objectives
• Defining contexts for learning
• Embracing diverse classroom experiences
• Learning through activity
• Summary
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• Chapter 3: Lesson Planning with Language Functions and Language Objectives in
• Mind
• Objectives
• Lesson planning with functional language awareness
• Understanding language demands and language objectives
• Summary
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• Chapter 4: Introducing New Material: Defining and Describing
• Objectives
• What do we mean by ‘defining’ in the mathematics classroom?
• Focusing explicitly on vocabulary
• Tools for word study in the classroom
• Summary
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• Chapter 5: Making Sense of Problems: Inferring, Predicting and Outlining
• Objectives
• What we mean by problem-solving in the mathematics classroom
• Focusing explicitly on grammar
• Tools for problem solving in the classroom
• Summary
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• Chapter 6: Building Expertise in Explaining and Reasoning
• Objectives
• What we mean by explaining in the mathematics classroom
• Focusing explicitly on grammar and frames for explaining
• Promoting explaining in the classroom
• Summary
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• Chapter 7: Reviewing and Communicating Results
• Objectives
• What we mean by reviewing and communicating results
• The art of reviewing in the mathematics classroom
• Communicating results: Precision in language
• Summary
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• Chapter 8: Reflecting on Practice in Functional Language Awareness Classrooms
• Objectives
• Using functional language awareness to design and reflect on the big issues
• Reflection in unit and lesson planning
• Summary
• Glossary
• References