
Mathematical Literacy
Helping Students Make Meaning in the Middle Grades
Heinemann Educational Books,U.S. (Publisher)
Published on 23. January 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
206 pages
978-0-325-01123-3 (ISBN)
Description
Language and communication are important to mathematics just as they are to the other content areas. Mathematical Literacy is a powerful resource that introduces you to a wide spectrum of strategies and approaches for building students facility in mathematical communication. Mathematical Literacy demonstrates how immersion in the language of math supports improved learning through traditional communication skills such as:
- reading
- writing
- speaking
- listening
- symbolizing
- graphing
- creating diagrams
- using tables.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Portsmouth
United States
Publishing group
Heinemann USA
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 214 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-325-01123-3 (9780325011233)
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Persons
Denisse R. Thompson is the coauthor of three Heinemann titles: Math, Culture, and Popular Media: Activities to Engage Middle School Students Through Film, Literature, and the Internet (2009); Mathematical Literacy (2008) and Introduciton to Reasoning and Proof (2008), part of the Math Process Standards Series for Grades 6-8. A professor of mathematics education at the University of South Florida, Tampa, she currently serves as President of the Florida Council of Teachers of Mathematics (2008-2009) and as monograph series editor for the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (2005-2008). Denisse previously taught at the middle school, high school, and community college levels, and since 2005 has been Director of Evaluation for the Secondary Component of the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project. She has written extensively on mathematics communication and the use of children's literature to teach mathematics.
Author
University of South Florida
University of South Florida
University of Michigan Ann Arbor