The Creative Mathematics Teacher's Book of Lists / Peter Appelbaum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Appelbaum, Peter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematics--Study and teaching.

Mathematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XI, 155 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2024]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Unexpected lists that propel your teaching into refreshingly new directions! From lesson planning and assessment strategies to ideas for changing the world, there is something for everybody at every level and age of mathematics – entertaining humor, deeply serious provocations to push you out of the box, and good, clean wholesome tips for creative experiments in classroom organization.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgment

About the Author

Introduction: How to Read This Book - A List of Reading Approaches

Teacher List Circles

Leave It Lying Around

Choose Your Own Adventure

Re-gift the Gift That Keeps on Giving

University Syllabus

One More List of Advice

1. Mathematical Activity Lists

Alan Bishop's Six Mathematical Activities

Counting

Locating

Measuring

Designing

Playing

Explaining

Further Reading

Tamsin Meaney's List of Bishop's Six Activities1

David Kirshner's Three Types of Activity

Exercises

Puzzles

Probes

2. Assessment Lists

Alice Pitt Assessment Categories

Susan Ohanian's Ten Foundational Questions

Jo Boaler's Five Elements of Effective Struggle

Note

3. Hannah Arendt Lists

Hannah Arendt's Three Kinds of Activity

Work

Labor

Action

Hannah Arendt's Four Strategies for Unlearning

Laughter

Translation

Forgiveness

Dramatization

4. Math Joke Lists

Top Dozen Silly Math Jokes

Homophonics and Polysemicity

Common Homophones for Creating Math Jokes

Polysemous Words with Special Mathematics Meanings

5. Math as Art Lists

Josiah McElheny's Three Ways to Use Models

Architect

Scientist

Artist

Models and Representations

Artist-Mathematicians

Susan Sontag's Alternatives to Representation

Sianne Ngai and the Aesthetics of Students' Contributions

Interesting

Zany

The Gimmick

Art Projects for Math Classes

Studio

Exhibitions

Public Provocations

Visual Communication Challenges.

Soundtracks

Performance Art Development

Mathematical Docents &amp

Critics

6. Political &amp

Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Lists

Gloria Ladson-Billing's Six Habits of Highly Effective Teachers

Celebrating the Mathematical Brilliance of Multilingual Learners

Learners as Classroom Leaders

Increasing Student Participation

Partnerships with Peers

Culturally Relevant Contexts

Visuals, Gestures &amp

Sandwiching

Supporting All Forms of Mathematical Literacy

Creative Engagement with Families

Levels of Democratic Mathematics

Questioning the Appropriateness of Formalizing a Problem for a Solution

Critical Mathematics Education

Reflective Thinking as an Evaluative Process

Post-Colonial Mathematics Levels

Multicultural &amp

Diversity Education

Critical Ethnomathematics

Dignity, Recognition &amp

Reconciliation

Reappropriation across Bonaventura de Sousa Santos' Abyssal Line

Anti-Racist Mathematics

Use Mathematics for Anti-Racism

Use Anti-Racist Ideas for Mathematics

Countering the Backlash to Anti-Racism

7. PlayBook Lists

Problem Solving &amp

Posing Lists

Georg Pólya's How to Solve It

Understand the Problem

Carry Out Your Plan

Look Back

John Mason, Kaye Stacey &amp

Leone Burton's Thinking Mathematically

Stephen I. Brown &amp

Marion Walter's Art of Problem Posing

Problem Posing

Start with an Already Solved Problem, or an Ordinary Relationship

Attribute Listing

What-If-Not?

Meaningful Communication Lists

Concept-Based Lesson Genres

Classifying Mathematical Objects

Interpreting Multiple Representations

Evaluating Mathematical Statements.

Exploring Problem Structures

Promoting a Thinking Classroom

Five Dimensions of "TRU"-ly Powerful Classrooms

The Mathematics Content

Cognitive Demand

Equitable Access to Content

Agency, Ownership &amp

Identity

Formative Assessment

Peter's Practical Critical Thinking Strategies

Mathematical Critics

Consequences of Choices

Obsess about Functions

Problematize "the Answer"

Problematize the Pedagogy

Mathematics as Rhetoric

Recognize Ourselves as Objects of Mathematics

Celebratory Archaeology

Five Days of Better Question-Asking

Avoid Information Collection by Probing for Explaining, Elaborating or Clarifying

Allow Plenty of Time for Thinking to Nurture Reflecting and Justifying

Facilitate Students in Making the Mathematics Visible

Use Focus Instead of Steering toward a Target

Encourage Students Asking Each Other

Worksheet Options

Use 'Pretty Good' Worksheets

Do Something Interesting with the Worksheets

Beware of 'Fun' &amp

'Cute'

Expand the Audience for the Work

Storytelling &amp

Literature Lists

Daniels-Type Literature Circle Roles

Literary Luminary

Connector

Illustrator

Soundtracker

Question Collector

Literature Circle Playbook

Storytelling Techniques for Math Teachers

Know Your Story about Math

Show, Don't Tell

Try Binary Opposites, &amp

Then Avoid Them

Change the Standpoint

Add Standpoints

Exploit Resonance &amp

Wonder

Change the Intended Audience, or Make It Not about Math

Make Students into Story Consultants

Three-Act Mathematics

Engage &amp

Perplex

Seek Information &amp

Solution

Discuss Solution &amp

Its Implications

Further Reading.

8. More Than Human Mathematics Lists

Neo-SAMBA School Math

Action &amp

Community-Building Focus

Fractal Assessment

Recursive Planning &amp

Curricular Surface and Depth

Seven Ways Math Can Save the World1

Weather Forecasts &amp

Climate Models

Getting Bang for Buck Out of Super Computers

Making the Most of Renewable Energy Resources

Preparing for Change

Making Sense of 'Big Data' &amp

Developing New Technologies

Making Mathematics Accessible to Everyone

9. Excellence &amp

Flourishing Lists

Lists of Virtues

Aristotle's Virtues

Aristotle's 12 Virtues

Theoretical &amp

Practical Virtues

Virtues Inspired by Judith Butler

Recognition

Response to Suffering

Interpretation

Afrofuturist Virtues

Reconstitution

Refraction of Imagination, Technology &amp

Liberation

World-Building Retrodiction

Collaborative Appropriation with Community Elders

Shopping Lists

What Every Mathematics Classroom Never Knew It Needed

Paper Clips

String

Cabinet of Curiosities

Math Tour Library

Social Media Identity

Community Advisory Board

First Aid Supplies for the Math Teacher's Body &amp

Spirit

First Aid Kit

Ben Orlin's Math with Bad Drawings

Cliff Pickover Books and Social Media

Dan Meyer Social Media

A Freakonomics Membership

A Short List of Mathematical Games You Might Have Overlooked

Ravensburger Labyrinth Family Board Game

Mental Jotto

Looney Labs Fluxx

Clue &amp

Set

Perplext Pack-O-Games

10. List of Last Thoughts

References

Index of Mathematical Topics

Index of Names.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789004688469

90-04-68846-3

OCLC:

1455134871

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004688469 DOI