Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Teaching - Subjects - Mathematics

Every year, significant numbers of immigrant children from Mexico enter classrooms in the United States. These immigrants comprise a heterogeneous group of students with diverse needs, abilities, and experiences. Transnational and Borderland Studies in Mathematics Education is the first collection to offer research studies across these communities. Providing invaluable research on both sending and receiving communities in Mexico and the US, this collection considers the multiple aspects of children s experiences with mathematics, including curriculum, classroom participation...

Are you interested in using Project Based Learning to revamp your lessons, but aren t sure how to get started? In "DIY Project Based Learning in ELA and History," award-winning teacher and "Edutopia "blogger Heather Wolpert-Gawron makes it fun and easy Project Based Learning encourages students and teachers alike to abandon their dusty textbooks, and instead embrace a form of curriculum design focused on student engagement, innovation, and creative problem-solving. A leading name in this field, Heather Wolpert-Gawron shares some of her most popular units for ELA and Social Studies in this...

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 appreciation.

Some of the turning points considered are the rise of the axiomatic method (most famously in Euclid), and the subsequent major changes in it (for example, by David Hilbert); the...

The twenty-five games and puzzles in Well Played, which have all been field-tested in diverse classrooms, contain:
- explanations of the mathematical importance of each game or puzzle and how it supports student learning;
- variations for...

Whole Numbers & Integers

Fractions

Decimals & Percents

These three essential areas of math skills are absolutely necessary for success in school, college, a career, and in everyday life. Award-winning math teacher and author Richard W. Fisher shares his proven system of teaching that motivates students to learn and produces dramatic results. Using Mr. Fisher's method, students rapidly gain confidence and excitement that quickly lead to success.

Presented in a simple format that everyone can...

Geometry

Problem Solving

Pre-Algebra

These three essentials areas of math skills are absolutely necessary for success in school, college, a career, and in everyday life.

Award-winning teacher and author Richard W. Fisher shares his proven system of teaching that motivates students to learn and produces dramatic results. Using Mr. Fisher's method, students rapidly gain confidence and excitement that quickly lead to success.

*Presented in a simple format...