Upper Elementary Math Lessons: Case Studies of Real Teaching Book

Preface Alternative Thematic Frameworks Introduction Part I: The Teaching of Mathematics - Lesson Cases Case 1: Promoting One of the Meanings of Multiplication: Requesting Alternate Methods in Order to Foster Understanding Case 2: Fractions, Decimals and Percents: Evoking Student Reasoning Commentary: A Teacher Educator Perspective Case 3: Getting a Sense of Grams: Building Conceptual Understanding Commentary: A Teacher Educator Perspective Case 4: Converting Among Customary Units of Measure: Attending to Students' Developmental Levels Commentary: A Teacher's Perspective Case 5: Converting Units Within a System of Measurement: Encouraging Resourcefulness Commentary: An English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Perspective Case 6: Distinguishing Between Area and Perimeter: Using Multiple Representations to Aid Discrimination Case 7: Exploring the Meanings of "Volume": Recognizing a Word's Everyday Meaning and its Mathematical Meaning Commentary: An English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Perspective Commentary: A Teacher's Perspective Case 8: The Importance of Sample Size: Posing High Level Questions to Build Understanding Commentary: A Teacher's Perspective Case 9: Continuous versus Discrete Data: Using Concept Attainment to Define Mathematical Terms

Part II: Perspectives on Teaching - Commentaries Learner-Centered Psychological Principles Moral Perspectives on Teaching Perspective from the Special Education Math Literature A Principal's Perspective

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