Sandra L. Atkins

Creating a Language-Rich Math Class (eBook, PDF)

Strategies and Activities for Building Conceptual Understanding

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What meanings do your students have for key mathematics concepts? What meanings do you wish them to have? This book offers practical approaches for developing conceptual understandings by connecting concrete, pictorial, verbal, and symbolic representations. The focus is on making mathematics memorable instead of on memorizing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000461176
• Artikelnr.: 62625870

Autorenporträt

Sandra L. Atkins is committed to finding those "AHA moments" when mathematical connections are made by teachers and students. She currently works with school districts across the United States and with International Independent Schools through her company, Creating AHAs.

Inhaltsangabe

1. What Are They Really Thinking? Determining the Meaning Kids Have for
Terms 2. Investigating Symbolic Decoding vs. Conceptual Language 3.
Understanding the Meaning of the Operations 4. Tips for Creating a
Language-Rich Math Class 5. The Power of the Forced Mute 6. Purposefully
Choose and Use Materials 7. Purposefully Use Representations to Build the
Language of Properties 8. Changing the Order for Introducing Mathematical
Language: Experience Then Name 9. Structuring Activities to Make Them
Language Rich 10. Building Precision and Flexibility in Using Mathematical
Language 11. Introducing Mathematical Language as We Record Student
Thinking 12. Making Sense of Word Problems: Developing Independent Problem
Solvers 13. The Importance of Writing in a Language Rich Mathematics Class