Writing to Learn Mathematics: Strategies That Work, K-12 - Softcover

Countryman, John

 
9780435083298: Writing to Learn Mathematics: Strategies That Work, K-12
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0435083295 ISBN 13: 9780435083298
Verlag: Heinemann, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

This text demonstrates that the use of journals, learning logs, letters, autobiographies, investigations, and formal papers can improve the reasoning abilities of maths students. It provides descriptions of activities and examples of student writing, from journal excerpts to research papers.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

<p>Joan Countryman is assistant head for academic planning at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, where she has taught mathematics since 1970, and is a lecturer at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. Since 1985 she has worked with the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation as a master teacher in a program offering summer institutes for secondary mathematics teachers. Joan has lectured extensively on new trends in elementary and secondary mathematics education, on gender and mathematics, and on the use of writing in mathematics classes. Her approach to teaching and learning mathematics is described by William Zinsser in a chapter of book, Writing to Learn.</p>

Joan Countryman is assistant head for academic planning at Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, where she has taught mathematics since 1970, and is a lecturer at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania. Since 1985 she has worked with the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation as a master teacher in a program offering summer institutes for secondary mathematics teachers. Joan has lectured extensively on new trends in elementary and secondary mathematics education, on gender and mathematics, and on the use of writing in mathematics classes. Her approach to teaching and learning mathematics is described by William Zinsser in a chapter of book, Writing to Learn.

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Verlag
Heinemann
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0435083295
ISBN 13 
9780435083298
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
101
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