Credo Reference helps you start your mathematics research with dictionaries of terminology, overviews and histories of core ideas in mathematics, and profiles of key mathematicians.
Whether you are a new or an experienced teacher, Communication and Creativity in the Math Classroom provides you with classroom-tested activities and ideas which are motivating, engaging, and meaningful to students. This book provides you with activities and ideas which stress life skills such as communicating more effectively, being creative, analyzing a variety of problems, following directions, and working cooperatively with others.
In this book, the authors discuss how educators can successfully apply the flipped classroom model to teaching math. Each chapter offers practical guidance, including how to approach lesson planning, what to do with class time and how the flipped model can work alongside learning through inquiry.
Functions -- Lines in the plane -- Quadratic polynomials -- Trigonometry -- Hyperbolic trigonometry -- Numbers -- Operations in number systems -- Topics in number systems -- Exponentiation -- Exponential and logarithmic functions: history, computation, and application -- Transcendental functions and complex numbers -- Beyond quadratics: higher degree polynomials -- Measurement.
This proven, accessible approach to a curriculum presents a learner-centered approach to math education. Mathematizing provides both the emergent curriculum and professional development frameworks to help young children learn math throughout their everyday routine and to facilitate teachers' understanding of how to see and support children's math learning at every turn.