| Description |
xii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Series Foreword / Louise Cherry Wilkinson -- Introduction: Schools, Mathematics, and the World of Reality / Robert B. Davis and Carolyn A. Maher -- Pt. 1. Context. Ch. 1. Mathematics Education: The Context of the Crisis / Gerald A. Goldin. Ch. 2. What Are the Issues? / Robert B. Davis and Carolyn A. Maher. Ch. 3. Constructivism and Caring / Nel Noddings -- Pt. 2. Relating Schools to Reality. Ch. 4. The Reality of Negative Numbers / Robert B. Davis and Carolyn A. Maher. Ch. 5. Learning Mathematics: Perspectives from Everyday Life / Terezinha Nunes. Ch. 6. Understanding Mathematics: The Impact of Technology / Anthony Ralston -- Pt. 3. What Should a Classroom Look Like? Ch. 7. Learning to Use Children's Mathematics Thinking: A Case Study / Elizabeth Fennema, Thomas P. Carpenter, Megan L. Franke and Deborah A. Carey. Ch. 8. Mathematics as Procedural Instructions and Mathematics as Meaningful Activity: The Reality of Teaching for Understanding / Paul Cobb, Terry Wood, Erna Yackel and Elizabeth McNeal. Ch. 9. Students' Disagreements During Small-Group Mathematical Problem Solving / Louise Cherry Wilkinson and Amy Martino -- Pt. 4. The Reality of Students. Ch. 10. Brian's Representation and Development of Mathematical Knowledge: The First Two Years / Carolyn A. Maher, Robert B. Davis and Alice Alston. Ch. 11. Mathematics and the Reality of the Student: Bringing the Two Together / Anna O. Graeber. Ch. 12. Assessing Mathematical Thinking and Learning Potential / Herbert P. Ginsburg, Susan F. Jacobs and Luz S. Lopez. Ch. 13. Real Tasks and Real Assessment / Jan de Lange |
| Notes |
Papers originally presented at a conference in the fall of 1990 at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education, New Brunswick, N.J |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Davis, Robert B. (Robert Benjamin), 1926-
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Maher, Carolyn Alexander.
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| LC no. |
92011678 |
| ISBN |
0205134459 |
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