Shaping the Future with Math, Science, and Technology (Paperback)

Dennis Adams

ISBN 10: 1610481178 / ISBN 13: 9781610481175

Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Lanham, 2011

Beschreibung

Paperback. Shaping the Future with Math, Science, and Technology examines how ingenuity, creativity, and teamwork skills are part of an intellectual toolbox associated with math, science, and technology. The book provides new ideas, proven processes, practical tools, and examples useful to educators who want to encourage students to solve problems and express themselves in imaginative ways. The development of a technological knowledge-based economy depends on the development of educational systems that allow schools, teachers, and students of diverse capabilities, backgrounds and learning preferences do better with both content and imaginative problem solving. This book makes the case that it is, indeed, possible to educate our way to a better economy and a better future. Paying attention to 21st century approaches and skills can help accomplish those goals. Shaping the Future with Math, Science, and Technology examines how ingenuity, creativity, and teamwork skills are part of an intellectual toolbox associated with math, science, and technology. The book provides new ideas, proven processes, practical tools, and examples useful . Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781610481175

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Shaping the Future with Math, Science, and Technology (Paperback)
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Lanham
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1610481178
• ISBN-13: 9781610481175
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: new

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Inhaltsangabe

Shaping the Future with Math, Science, and Technology examines how ingenuity, creativity, and teamwork skills are part of an intellectual toolbox associated with math, science, and technology. The book provides new ideas, proven processes, practical tools, and examples useful to educators who want to encourage students to solve problems and express themselves in imaginative ways.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dennis Adams is a Canadian education and technology consultant who has taught at the University of Minnesota and McGill University in Montreal. He has done graduate work at Harvard University and has a PhD from the University of Wisconsin. Adams is a veteran elementary school teacher who has authored more than a fifteen books on various educational topics. Mary Hamm is a professor of elementary education at San Francisco State University. She has taught at Ohio State University and the University of Colorado. Her background also includes extensive teaching at the elementary and middle school levels. In addition she has written many articles and books on science and mathematics education.