Mathematics Classrooms Student's Activities and Teachers' Practices

• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Rotterdam Sense Publishers 2013
• Subjects: Mathematics > Study and teaching; Teaching > Methodology; Teaching > Philosophy
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This book presents unique insights into a significant area of French research relating the learning and teaching of mathematics in school classrooms and their development. Having previously had only glimpses of this work, I have found the book fascinating in its breadth of theory, its links between...

Table of Contents:

• Theory of activity and developmental frameworks for an analysis of teachers' practices and students' learning / Janine Rogalski
• Why and how to understand what is at stake in a mathematics class / Aline Robert and Christophe Hache
• Diversity, variability and commonalities among teaching practices / Eric Roditi
• Stability of practices: what 8th and 9th grade students with the same teacher do during a geometry class period? / Monique Chappet-Paries, Aline Robert, and Janine Rogalski
• The case of textbooks in mathematics teaching / Christophe Hache
• Teaching practices and student learning: a case study / Julie Horoks
• The study of a scenario and its implementation in the classes of two different teachers: comparison of in-class events and the effects on the work of students in exams / Aurélie Chesnais
• Student activities with e-exercise bases / Claire Cazes and Fabrice Vandebrouck
• Teachers' practices using e-exercise bases in their classrooms / Maha Abboud-Blanchard, Claire Cazes, and Fabrice Vandebrouck
• Teachers' activity in dynamic geometry environments: comparison with a session in traditional environments / Maha Abboud-Blanchard and Monique Chappet-Paries
• Qualitative and quantitative studies about mathematics teachers in France / Sayac Nathalie
• Strategies for training mathematics teachers. The first step: training the teachers / Maha Abboud-Blanchard and Aline Robert