Teaching with Tasks for Effective Mathematics Learning

• Main Authors: Sullivan, Peter (Author), Clarke, Doug (Author), Clarke, Barbara (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Mathematics Teacher Education ; 104
• Subjects: Education.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Teaching.; Mathematics Education.; Teaching and Teacher Education.

Using classroom mathematics tasks to support student learning is the topic of this timely volume. Employing research-based data, the authors focus on teacher practice as well as teacher and student learning and knowledge creation to demonstrate the use of mathematics tasks which promote effective st...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Researching Tasks in Mathematics Classrooms
• 2. Perspectives on Mathematics, Learning and Teaching
• 3. Tasks and Mathematics Learning. 4. Using Purposeful Presentational Tasks
• 5. Using Mathematical Tasks Arising from Contexts
• 6. Using Content-Specific Open-Ended Tasks
• 7. Moving from the Task to the Lesson: Pedagogical Practices and other Issues
• 8. Constructing a Sequencing of Lessons
• 9. Students' Preferences for Different Types of Mathematics Tasks
• 10. Students Perceptions of Characteristics of Desired Mathematics Lessons
• 11. Contrasting Types of Tasks: A Story of Three Lessons. - 12. Conclusions
• 13. A Selection.