Empowering Mathematics Learners

Yearbook 2017, Association of Mathematics Educators

This book contributes towards the literature in the field of mathematics education, specifically on aspects of empowering learners of mathematics. The book, comprising eighteen chapters, written by renowned researchers in mathematics education, provides readers with approaches and applicable classroom strategies to empower learners of mathematics.

The chapters in the book can be classified into four sections. The four sections focus on how learners could be empowered in their learning, cognitive and affective processes, through mathematical content, purposefully designed mathematical tasks, whilst developing 21st century competencies.

Contents:

• Empowering Mathematics Learners (Berinderjeet Kaur & Lee Ngan Hoe)
• Empowering Learning in an Algebra Class: The Case of Expansion and Factorisation (Chua Boon Liang)
• Facilitating Students' Mathematical Noticing (Tan Liang Soon & Hang Kim Hoo)
• Empowering Junior College Students through the Educational Use of Graphics Calculators (Barry Kissane)
• Understanding Future Teachers' Mathematical Knowing to Overcome Double Discontinuities (Hyungmi Cho & Oh Nam Kwon)
• Developing Student Voice in the Mathematics Classroom (Glenda Anthony & Roberta Hunter)
• Empowering Mathematics Learners through Effective Memory Strategies (Wong Khoon Yoong)
• Empower Primary School Pupils to Use Representations to Solve Process Problems (Yeo Kai Kow Joseph)
• Empowering Mathematics Learners with Metacognitive Strategies in Problem Solving (Loh Mei Yoke & Lee Ngan Hoe)
• Mathematical Problem Solving: An Approach to Empowering Students in the Mathematics Classroom (Toh Tin Lam)
• Empowering Mathematics Learners through Exploratory Tasks (Ariyadi Wijaya)
• Use of Open and Guided Investigative Tasks to Empower Mathematics Learners (Joseph B W Yeo)
• Using Representations to Develop Mathematical Thinking (Palanisamy K Veloo & Parmjit Singh)
• Empowering Teachers to Use Open-Ended Real-World Tasks in Primary Mathematics Classrooms (Ng Kit Ee Dawn)
• ACISK Framework — A Tool for Empowering Mathematics Learners to be Self-Directed (Wong Lai Fong & Berinderjeet Kaur)
• Empowering Students through Inquiry (Steve Thornton)
• Developing Self-Regulated Learners in the Primary Mathematics Classroom (Cheng Lu Pien & Teong Ying Xi Theodora)
• Empowering Students' Learning through Mathematical Modelling (Chun Ming Eric Chan, Rashidah Vapumarican, Kaiwen Vanessa Oh, Huanjia Tracey Liu & Yew Hwee Seah)

Readership: Graduate students, researchers, practitioners and teachers in mathematics.
Key Features:

• Firstly it has a focused theme: Empowering Mathematics Learners, which is of prime concern to mathematics educators
• Secondly it is written by university scholars who work closely with classroom mathematics teachers thereby drawing on their research knowledge and classroom experiences
• Lastly, the book is a rich resource of tried and tested practical know-how of approaches that promote mathematics learning, for mathematics educators in Singapore schools and elsewhere