Schools, mathematics, and the world of reality / Robert B. Davis and Carolyn A. Maher, editors.

Other author Davis, Robert B. (Robert Benjamin), 1926-1997
Other author Maher, Carolyn Alexander.
Format Book
Publication InfoBoston : Allyn and Bacon, ©1993.
Descriptionxii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Mathematics--Study and teaching. --Congresses.

Contents Introduction : schools, mathematics, and the world of reality / Robert B. Davis, Carolyn A. Maher -- Mathematics education : the context of the crisis / Gerald A. Goldin -- What are the issues? / Robert B. Davis, Carolyn A. Maher -- Constructivism and caring / Nel Noddings -- Thereality of negative numbers / Robert B. Davis, Carolyn A. Maher -- Learning mathematics : perspectives from everyday life / Terezinha Nunes -- Understanding mathematics : the impact of technology / Anthony Ralston -- Learning to use children's mathematics thinking : a case study / Elizabeth Fennema ... [et al.] -- Mathematics as procedural instructions and mathematics as meaningful activity : the reality of teaching for understanding / Paul Cobb ... [et al.] -- Students' disagreements during small-group mathematical problem solving / Louise Cherry Wilkinson, Amy Martino -- Brian's representation and development of mathematical knowledge : the first two years / Carolyn A. Maher, Robert B. Davis, Alice Alston.
Contents (cont.) Mathematics and the reality of the student : bringing the two together / Anna O. Graeber -- Assessing mathematical thinking and learning potential / Herbert P. Ginsburg, Susan F. Jacobs, Luz S. Lopez -- Real tasks and real assessment / Jan de Lange.
General notePapers originally presented at a conference in the fall of 1990 at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education, New Brunswick, N.J.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 92011678
ISBN0205134459

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Joyner General Stacks QA11.A1 S363 1993 ✔ Available Place Hold