Learning and Teaching Real World Problem Solving in School Mathematics A Multiple-Perspective Framework for Crossing the Boundary /

• Main Author: Jurdak, Murad (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Education.; Mathematics > Study and teaching.; Mathematics Education.; Learning & Instruction.

The ultimate aim of this book is to identify the conceptual tools and the instructional modalities which enable students and teachers to cross the boundary between school mathematics and real world problem solving. The book identifies, examines, and integrates seven conceptual tools, of which five a...

Table of Contents:

• I. School, students, mathematics and their 'real worlds'
• Students and their real worlds
• School and the real world: Enculturation or apartheid
• Mathematical literacy: Does it really exist?
• II. Multiple perspectives on real world problem solving in school mathematics
• The activity system perspective
• Mathematization's perspective
• Critical mathematics education perspective
• Perspective of Bruner's narrative and paradigmatic modes of thought
• Ethnomathematics perspective
• III. Contexts of real world problem solving in school mathematics
• Social-cultural context
• Work contexts
• STEM contexts
• Virtual world contexts
• IV. Toward a theory of instruction
• Elements of a multidimensional theory of instruction
• Implications for teaching real world problem solving in school mathematics
• Epilogue.