Improving Instruction in Algebra: Using Cases to Transform Mathematics Teaching and Learning: v. 2 (Ways of Knowing in Science and Mathematics): Using ... of Knowing in Science and Mathematics Series) - Softcover

Smith, Margaret Schwan; Silver, Edward A.; Stein, Mary Kay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807745308 ISBN 13: 9780807745304

Publisher: Teachers College Press, 2005

Synopsis

Helping students develop an understanding of important mathematical ideas is a persistent challenge for teachers. In this book, one of a three-volume set, well-known mathematics educators Margaret Smith, Edward A. Silver, and Mary Kay Stein provide teachers of mathematics the support they need to improve their instruction. They focus on ways to engage upper elementary, middle school, and high school students in thinking, reasoning, and problem solving to build their mathematics understanding and proficiency. The content focus of Volume Two is algebra.

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About the Author

Margaret Schwan Smith holds a joint appointment at the University of Pittsburgh as an associate professor in the Department of Instruction and Learning in the School of Education and Research Scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center (LRDC). Edward A. Silver is Professor of Education and Mathematics at the University of Michigan. Mary Kay Stein holds a joint appointment at the University of Pittsburgh as an associate professor in the Administrative and Policy Department of the School of Education and Research Scientist at the LRDC.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0807745308
• ISBN 13: 9780807745304
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 168