Organizing and Collecting: The Number System (Context for Learning Math)

Fosnot, Catherine Twomey; Dolk, Maarten; Liu, Nina

ISBN 10: 0325010110 / ISBN 13: 9780325010113

Published by HEINEMANN, 2008

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Title: Organizing and Collecting: The Number System...

Publisher: HEINEMANN

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: paperback

Condition: New

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Cathy Fosnot is a leading voice in mathematics education. She is Professor Emerita of Education at the City College of New York and the founder of Mathematics in the City, a national center for professional development located at the college. In 2007 she established New Perspectives on Learning to devote her time to speaking around the world, fostering school change through professional learning and support, and producing new resources and materials.

Watch Cathy talk about the importance of context in math.

Follow Cathy on Twitter @ctfosnot

Maarten Dolk is a researcher and developer at the Freudenthal Institute for science and mathematics education in the Netherlands. He is involved in the development and research of in-service and multimedia in-service materials for teachers, staff developers, and teacher educators in a number of countries. He has been a collaborating partner in Mathematics in the City since its inception and is co-author of the first three books in the Young Mathematicians at Work series.