Teaching Mathematical Reasoning in Secondary School Classrooms

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Brodie, Karin. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2010.
• Subjects: Education.; Curriculum planning.; Mathematics.; Mathematics Education.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Learning & Instruction.; Curriculum Studies.; Education (general).
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09742-8

For too many students, mathematics consists of facts in a vacuum, to be memorized because the instructor says so, and to be forgotten when the course of study is completed. In this all-too-common scenario, young learners often miss the chance to develop skillsspecifically, reasoning skillsthat can...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Contexts, reform and resources
• Mathematical reasoning through tasks: learners' responses
• Learning mathematical reasoning in a collaborative whole class discussion
• Classroom practices for teaching and learning mathematical reasoning
• Teaching mathematics with the five strands
• Teaching the practices of justification and explanation
• Learner contributions
• Teacher moves
• Dilemmas in teaching mathematical reasoning
• Learner resistance to mathematical conversations.