Becoming the math teacher you wish you'd had : ideas and strategies from vibrant classrooms / Tracy Johnston Zager ; foreword by Elham Kazemi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zager, Tracy, 1972- author.

Contributor:

Kazemi, Elham, 1970- writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Study and teaching.

Mathematics.

Mathematics teachers--Training of.

Mathematics teachers.

Effective teaching.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 376 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

becoming the math teacher you wish you'd had

Place of Publication:

Portlan, Maine : Stenhouse Publishers, [2017]

Summary:

While mathematicians describe mathematics as playful, beautiful, creative, and captivating, many students describe math class as boring, stressful, useless, and humiliating. In Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You'd Had, Tracy Zager helps teachers close this gap by making math class more like mathematics. Tracy spent years with highly skilled math teachers in a diverse range of settings and grades. You'll find this book jam-packed with new thinking from these vibrant classrooms. You'll grapple with big ideas: How is taking risks inherent to mathematics? How do mathematicians balance intuition and proof? How can teachers value both productive mistakes and precision? You'll also find dozens of practical teaching techniques you can try in your classroom right away--strategies to stimulate students to connect ideas; rich tasks that encourage students to wonder, generalize, conjecture, and persevere; routines to teach students how to collaborate. All teachers can move toward increasingly authentic, delightful, robust mathematics teaching and learning for themselves and their students. This important book helps us develop instructional techniques that will make the math classes we teach so much better than the math classes we took.

Contents:

1. Breaking the cycle

2. What do mathematicians do?

3. Mathematicians take risks

4. Mathematicians make mistakes

5. Mathematicians are precise

6. Mathematicians rise to a challenge

7. Mathematicians ask questions

8. Mathematicians connect ideas

9. Mathematicians use intuition

10. Mathematicians reason

11. Mathematicians prove

12. Mathematicians work together and alone

13. "Favorable conditions" for all math students.

Notes:

Description based on print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (Pages 357-366) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Johnston Zager, Tracy Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You'd Had

ISBN:

9781003842415

1003842410

9781032680637

1032680636

9781625311283

1625311281

9781003839514

1003839517

OCLC:

950004343