Ebook: Improving Instruction in Algebra
- Genre: Mathematics // Algebra
- Series: Using cases to transform mathematics teaching and learning 2 Ways of knowing in science and mathematics series
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: Teachers College Press
- City: New York
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Each volume in the set features: * Cases from urban, middle school classrooms with ethnically, racially, and linguistically diverse student populations. Each case illustrates an instructional episode in the classroom of a teacher who is implementing standards-based instruction. * The teachers’ perspective, including their thoughts and actions as they interact with students and with key aspects of mathematical content. * Cognitively challenging mathematics activities that are built around samples of authentic classroom practice. * Facilitation chapters to help professional developers "teach" the cases, including specific guidelines for facilitating discussions and suggestions for connecting the ideas presented in the cases to a teacher’s own practice.
As a complete set, this resource provides a basis on which to build a comprehensive, professional development program to improve mathematics instruction and student learning.