'Thinking Mathematically' seeks to turn this familiar statement into a promise of opportunity and exploration. The examples provided offer both a contextual and procedural base that students can easily build upon.
In Children's Mathematics: Cognitively Guided Instruction, Thomas Carpenter, Megan Franke, and Linda Levi helped tens of thousands of teachers understand children's intuitive problem-solving and computational processes. More important, the authors...
This book is invaluable for anyone who wishes to promote mathematical thinking in others or for anyone who has always wondered what lies at the core of mathematics.
Thinking Mathematically unfolds the processes which lie at the heart of mathematics. It demonstrates how to encourage, develop, and foster the processes which seem to come naturally to mathematicians. In...
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A. Keats, K. F. Collis, & G. S. Halford (Eds.), Cognitive Development: Research Based on a Neo-Piagetian approach. New York: John VViley & Sons. ... Cottrill,J., Dubinsky, E., Nichols, D., Schwingendorf, K., Thomas, K., & References 43 5.
"Mathematical thinking is not the same as 'doing math'--unless you are a professional mathematician.
In those conferences, interdisciplinary teams reviewed major topic areas and put together distillations of what was known about them.* A more recent conference -- upon which this volume is based -- offered a forum in which various people ...
Try to fit a 17% slice of the pie in with the 93% share held by the one-percenters and you find you've got more pie than plate. 93% and 17% add up to more than 100%; how does this make sense? It makes sense because the bottom 90% ...