Mathematics category: 12022 books
Mathematics Teacher Education in the Public Interest
Equity and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Mathematics teacher education has a critical role to play in preparing teachers to put at center stage goals to support equity in mathematics education and to diversify student interest and participation in mathematics. These goals must also resonate with broader public interest goals to improve educational...
by John Mack, Bruce Vogeli
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
This book provides the global mathematics education community with information on the recent and current status of the teaching of mathematics in a group of island nations in the Asia-Pacific region. Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and twelve...
Deep Thinking
What Mathematics Can Teach Us About the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
There is more than one way to think. Most people are familiar with the systematic, rule-based thinking that one finds in a mathematical proof or a computer program. But such thinking does not produce breakthroughs in mathematics and science nor is it the kind of thinking that results in significant...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
The interaction of the history of mathematics and mathematics education has long been construed as an esoteric area of inquiry. Much of the research done in this realm has been under the auspices of the history and pedagogy of mathematics group. However there is little systematization or consolidation...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book addresses the historiography of mathematics as it was practiced during the 19th and 20th centuries by paying special attention to the cultural contexts in which the history of mathematics was written.
In the 19th century, the history of mathematics was recorded by a diverse range...
Cases for Mathematics Teacher Educators
Facilitating Conversations about Inequities in Mathematics Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE) in its 2015 position paper on Equity in Mathematics Teacher Education provides a list of actions for mathematics teacher educators (MTE’s) to help them develop and implement equitable practices. The position paper states it is critical that mathematics...
Diversifying Mathematics Teaching
Advanced Educational Content and Methods for Prospective Elementary Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
The book is written to enhance the preparation of elementary teacher candidates by offering teaching ideas conducive to the development of deep understanding of concepts fundamental to the mathematics curriculum they are to teach. It intends to show how the diversity of teaching methods stems from...
Mathematics Education in Korea
Volume 1: Curricular and Teaching and Learning Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
This book will introduce the history and practices of mathematics education in Korea. How it has been influenced from Japan, America, and other countries, and has developed into the unique Korean style of mathematics education. The editors have planned to include most of the topics researchers outside...
by I. Y. Hali
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
EasyRead Mathematics for Junior Secondary Schools is a doing it yourself mathematics series that is written for pupils with learning difficulties in mathematics. This series of books is easytoread and easytounderstand; as the style used in writing the texts is a stepbystep approach and the explanations...
by Michael K. J. Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
An easy-to-read presentation of the early history of mathematics
Engaging and accessible, An Introduction to the Early Development of Mathematics provides a captivating introduction to the history of ancient mathematics in early civilizations for a nontechnical audience. Written with practical...
Effective Mathematics Lessons through an Eclectic Singapore Approach
Yearbook 2015, Association of Mathematics Educators
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
With this seventh volume, as part of the series of yearbooks by the Association of Mathematics Educators in Singapore, we aim to provide a range of learning experiences and teaching strategies that mathematics teachers can judiciously select and adapt in order to deliver effective lessons to their...
What Is Mathematics?:An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 1996
For more than two thousand years a familiarity with mathematics has been regarded as an indispensable part of the intellectual equipment of every cultured person. Today, unfortunately, the traditional place of mathematics in education is in grave danger. The teaching and learning of mathematics has...
Engineering Mathematics I
Electromagnetics, Fluid Mechanics, Material Physics and Financial Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2016
This book highlights the latest advances in engineering mathematics with a main focus on the mathematical models, structures, concepts, problems and computational methods and algorithms most relevant for applications in modern technologies and engineering. In particular, it features mathematical methods...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2010
This is a one-of-a-kind reference for anyone with a serious interest in mathematics. Edited by Timothy Gowers, a recipient of the Fields Medal, it presents nearly two hundred entries, written especially for this book by some of the world's leading mathematicians, that introduce basic mathematical...