MATHEMATICAL MINDSETS : unleashing students' potential through creative math, inspiring... messages and innovative teaching.

✍ Scribed by JO BOALER

• Publisher: JOSSEY-BASS INC ,U S
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 321
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction: The Power of Mindset
Chapter 1 The Brain and Mathematics Learning
Chapter 2 The Power of Mistakes and Struggle
Mistakes in Life
How Can We Change the Ways Students View Struggle and Mistakes?
Chapter 3 The Creativity and Beauty inMathematics
Conclusion
Chapter 4 Creating Mathematical Mindsets:: The Importance of Flexibility with Numbers
Number Sense
What about Math Facts?
How Important Is Math Practice?
What about Older Students?
Math Apps and Games
Conclusion
Chapter 5 Rich Mathematical Tasks
Case 1. Seeing the Openness of Numbers
Case 2. Growing Shapes: The Power of Visualization
Case 3. A Time to Tell?
Case 4. Seeing a Mathematical Connection for the First Time (Pascal’s Triangle)
Case 5. The Wonders of Negative Space
Case 6. From Math Facts to Math Excitement
From Cases of Mathematics Excitement to the Design of Tasks
1. Can You Open the Task to Encourage Multiple Methods, Pathways, and Representations?
2. Can You Make It an Inquiry Task?
3. Can You Ask the Problem before Teaching the Method?
4. Can You Add a Visual Component?
5. Can You Make It Low Floor and High Ceiling?
6. Can You Add the Requirement to Convince and Reason?
Conclusion
Chapter 6 Mathematics and the Path to Equity
The Elitist Construction of Math
The Myth of the Mathematically Gifted Child
When Math Inequalities in Course Placement Become Illegal
Equitable Strategies
1. Offer All Students High-Level Content
2. Work to Change Ideas about Who Can Achieve in Mathematics
3. Encourage Students to Think Deeply about Mathematics
4. Teach Students to Work Together
5. Give Girls and Students of Color Additional Encouragement to Learn Math and Science
6. Eliminate (or at Least Change the Nature of) Homework
Conclusion
Chapter 7 From Tracking to Growth Mindset Grouping
Opportunities to Learn
De-Tracking
Growth Mindset Grouping
Teaching Heterogeneous Groups Effectively: The Mathematics Tasks
1. Providing Open-Ended Tasks
2. Offering a Choice of Tasks
3. Individualized Pathways
Teaching Heterogeneous Groups Effectively: Complex Instruction (with an Update)
Multidimensionality
Roles
Assigning Competence
Teaching Students to Be Responsible for Each Other’s Learning
My Adaptation to Complex Instruction
Conclusion
Chapter 8 Assessment for a Growth Mindset
Race to Nowhere
Assessment for Learning
Developing Student Self-Awareness and Responsibility
1. Self-Assessment
2. Peer Assessment
3. Reflection Time
4. Traffic Lighting
5. Jigsaw Groups
6. Exit Tickets
7. Online Forms
8. Doodling
9. Students Write Questions and Tests
Diagnostic Comments
Advice on Grading
Conclusion
Chapter 9 Teaching Mathematics for a Growth Mindset
Encourage All Students
Setting Up Classroom Norms
The Participation Quiz
Believe in All of Your Students
Value Struggle and Failure
Give Growth Praise and Help
Opening Mathematics
Teach Mathematics as an Open, Growth, Learning Subject
Encourage Students to Be Mathematicians
Teach Mathematics as a Subject of Patterns and Connections
Teach Creative and Visual Mathematics
Encourage Intuition and Freedom of Thought
Value Depth over Speed
Connect Mathematics to the World Using Mathematical Modeling
MP 4: Model with Mathematics
Encourage Students to Pose Questions, Reason, Justify, and Be Skeptical
Teach with Cool Technology and Manipulatives
Putting These Ideas into Practice
Conclusion
References
Appendix A
Appendix B
Index
EULA