Teaching with Tasks for Effective Mathematics Learning

✍ Scribed by Peter Sullivan, Doug Clarke, Barbara Clarke (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 214
• Series: Mathematics Teacher Education 104
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

​This book is about how teachers can use classroom mathematics tasks to support student learning, and presents data on the ways in which teachers used those tasks in a particular research project. It is the product of research findings focusing on teacher practice, teacher learning and knowledge, and student learning. It demonstrates how teachers can use mathematics tasks to promote effective student learning.​

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Researching Tasks in Mathematics Classrooms....Pages 1-5
Perspectives on Mathematics, Learning, and Teaching....Pages 7-12
Tasks and Mathematics Learning....Pages 13-21
Using Purposeful Representational Tasks....Pages 23-37
Using Mathematical Tasks Arising from Contexts....Pages 39-56
Using Content-Specific Open-Ended Tasks....Pages 57-70
Moving from the Task to the Lesson: Pedagogical Practices and Other Issues....Pages 71-83
Constructing a Sequence of Lessons....Pages 85-98
Students’ Preferences for Different Types of Mathematics Tasks....Pages 99-109
Students’ Perceptions of Characteristics of Desired Mathematics Lessons....Pages 111-120
Contrasting Types of Tasks: A Story of Three Lessons....Pages 121-134
Conclusion....Pages 135-143
A Selection of Mathematical Tasks....Pages 145-193
Back Matter....Pages 195-206

✦ Subjects

Mathematics Education; Teaching and Teacher Education