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The Mathematical Brain Across the Lifespan is the latest volume in
the Progress in Brain Research series that focuses on new trends
and developments. This established international series examines
major areas of basic and clinical research within the
neurosciences, as well as popular and emerging subfields.
The depth and breadth of a mathematics teacher's understanding of
mathematics matter most as the teacher engages in the daily work of
teaching. One of the major challenges to teachers is to be ready to
draw on the relevant mathematical ideas from different areas of the
school curriculum and from their postsecondary mathematics
experiences that can be helpful in explaining ideas to students,
making instructional decisions, creating examples, and engaging in
other aspects of their daily work. Being mathematically ready and
confident requires teachers to engage in ongoing professional
learning that helps them to connect mathematics to events like
those they live on a daily basis. The purpose of this volume is to
provide teachers, teacher educators, and other facilitators of
professional learning opportunities with examples of authentic
events and tools for discussing those events in professional
learning settings. The work shared in Facilitator's Guidebook for
Use of Mathematics Situations in Professional Learning (Guidebook)
resulted from a collaborative effort of school mathematics
supervisors and university mathematics educators. The collaborators
joined their varied experiences as teachers, coaches, supervisors,
teacher educators, and researchers to suggest ways to scaffold
activities, encourage discussion, and instigate reflection with
teacher-participants of differing mathematics backgrounds and with
varying teaching assignments. Each guide has ideas for engaging and
furthering mathematical thought across a range of facilitator and
participant mathematics backgrounds and draws on the collaborators'
uses of the Situations with in-service and prospective teachers.
The events and mathematical ideas connected to each event come from
Situations in Mathematical Understanding for Secondary Teaching: A
Framework and Classroom- Based Situations. A Situation is a
description of a classroom-related event and the mathematics
related to it. For each of six Situations, school and university
collaborators developed a facilitator's guide that presents ideas
and options for engaging teachers with the event and the
mathematical ideas. The Guidebook also contains suggestions for how
teachers and others might develop new Situations based on events
from their own classrooms as a form of professional learning. Both
teacher educators and school-based facilitators can use this volume
to structure sessions and inspire ideas for professional learning
activities that are rooted in the daily work of mathematics
teachers and students.
Mathematics Applications and Interpretation for the IB Diploma
Higher Level provides comprehensive coverage of the new curriculum,
developed for first examinations in 2021. Written by a highly
experienced IB author team, this book includes the following
features: integrated GeoGebra applets created specifically for the
course, worked examples to help you tackle questions and apply
concepts and skills, practice questions to help you prepare for the
exam, a rich and wide-ranging Theory of Knowledge chapter, and
guidance on the Internal Assessment.
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