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The Math Teachers Know: Profound Understanding of Emergent Mathematics

By Brent Davis , Moshe Renert

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
ISBN
0415858437, 9780415858434
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5622043 bytes)
Pages
152\150
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-02-13 01:43:24

Description

What sorts of mathematics competencies must teachers have in order to teach the discipline well? This book offers a novel take on the question. Most research is focused on explicit knowledge–that is, on the sorts of insights that might be specified, catalogued, taught, and tested. In contrast, this book focuses on the tacit dimensions of teachers’ mathematics knowledge that precede and enable their competencies with formal mathematics. It highlights the complexity of this knowledge and offers strategies to uncover it, analyze it, and re-synthesize it in ways that will make it more available for teaching. Emerging from 10 years of collaborative inquiry with practicing teachers, it is simultaneously informed by the most recent research and anchored to the realities of teachers’ lives in classrooms.

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