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Young Mathematicians at Work: Constructing Multiplication and Division

by Catherine Twomey Fosnot

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Publisher Comments:

In our efforts to reform mathematics education, we've learned a tremendous amount about young students' strategies and the ways they construct knowledge, without fully understanding how to support such development over time. The Dutch do. So, funded by the NSF and Exxon Mobil, Mathematics in the City was begun, a collaborative inservice project that pooled the best thinking from both countries. In Young Mathematicians at Work, Catherine Fosnot and Maarten Dolk reveal what they learned after several years of intensive study in numerous urban classrooms.

In this second volume in a series of three, Fosnot and Dolk focus on how to develop an understanding of multiplication and division in grades 3-5. Their book:

  • describes and illustrates what it means to do and learn mathematics
  • provides strategies to help teachers turn their classrooms into math workshops that encourage and reflect mathematizing
  • examines several ways to engage and support children as they construct important strategies and big ideas related to multiplication
  • takes a close look at the strategies and big ideas related to division
  • defines modeling and provides examples of how learners construct models - with a discussion of the importance of context
  • discusses what it means to calculate using number sense and whether or not algorithms should still be the goal of computation instruction
  • describes how to strengthen performance and portfolio assessment
  • emphasizes teachers as learners by encouraging them to see themselves as mathematicians.

Synopsis:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-165) and index.

Synopsis:

In this second volume in a series of three, Fosnot and Dolk focus on how to develop an understanding of multiplication and division in grades 3-5.
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About the Author

CATHERINE TWOMEY FOSNOT is Professor of Education at The City College of the City of New York and Director of Mathematics in the City. She twice has won the "best writing" award from AERA's Constructivist SIG and she was the recipient of the "young scholar" award by Educational Communication and Technology Journal . She is an author of several books on mathematics education, most recently, the Young Mathematicians at Work series.MAARTEN DOLK is a researcher and developer of mathematics education at the Freudenthal Institute in the Netherlands, where he has been involved in the development of professional materials for teachers and for student teachers. He also has directed an inservice project in the Netherlands for teacher educators and staff developers. His work in the United States is related to the inservice of primary school teachers. He is the coauthor of the Young Mathematicians at Work series.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780325003542
Subtitle:
Constructing Multiplication and Division
Author:
Fosnot, Catherine Twomey
Author:
Dolk, Maarten
Publisher:
Heinemann Educational Books
Location:
Portsmouth, NH
Subject:
Mathematics
Subject:
Elementary
Subject:
Teaching Methods & Materials - Mathematics
Subject:
Division
Subject:
Multiplication
Subject:
Multiplication - St
Subject:
Division -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
Series Volume:
no. 82]
Publication Date:
September 2001
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
192
Dimensions:
9.46x7.38x.36 in. .76 lbs.
Age Level:
08-10
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