case studies of real teaching Graeber, Anna Olga creator Valli, Linda 1947- Newton, Kristie Jones 1973- text bibliography mdu Lanham, Md Rowman & Littlefield Publishers c2011 2011 monographic eng

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xv, 178 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. PrefaceAlternative Thematic FrameworksIntroductionPart I: The Teaching of Mathematics - Lesson CasesCase 1: Promoting One of the Meanings of Multiplication: Requesting Alternate Methods in Order to Foster UnderstandingCase 2: Fractions, Decimals and Percents: Evoking Student ReasoningCommentary: A Teacher Educator PerspectiveCase 3: Getting a Sense of Grams: Building Conceptual UnderstandingCommentary: A Teacher Educator PerspectiveCase 4: Converting Among Customary Units of Measure: Attending to Students' Developmental LevelsCommentary: A Teacher's PerspectiveCase 5: Converting Units Within a System of Measurement: Encouraging ResourcefulnessCommentary: An English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) PerspectiveCase 6: Distinguishing Between Area and Perimeter: Using Multiple Representations to Aid DiscriminationCase 7: Exploring the Meanings of "Volume": Recognizing a Word's Everyday Meaning and its Mathematical MeaningCommentary: An English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) PerspectiveCommentary: A Teacher's PerspectiveCase 8: The Importance of Sample Size: Posing High Level Questions to Build UnderstandingCommentary: A Teacher's PerspectiveCase 9: Continuous versus Discrete Data: Using Concept Attainment to Define Mathematical TermsPart II: Perspectives on Teaching - CommentariesLearner-Centered Psychological PrinciplesMoral Perspectives on TeachingPerspective from the Special Education Math LiteratureA Principal's PerspectiveReferencesList of Contributors Anna Graeber, Linda Valli, and Kristie Jones Newton. Includes bibliographical references and index. Mathematics Study and teaching (Elementary) Case studies Matemáticas Enseñanza primaria Matemáticas elementales Enseñanza QA 135.6 G734u 2011 372.7 9781442211964 (pbk. : alk. paper) 110304 20230410132733.0 spa