Fostering Children's Mathematics Development -CD (Software) (04 Edition)

In their Young Mathematicians at Work series, Catherine Twomey Fosnot and Maarten Dolk described Mathematics in the City, an innovative project where teachers helped young children construct a deep understanding of number and operations in a math workshop environment. Now they and two colleagues from the project have developed a 21st-century approach that provides pre- and inservice teachers with an interactive, video-based, digital context for inquiry into the teaching and learning of mathematics.

Designed for workshop participants and preservice teachers, the Fostering Children's Mathematical Development CD-ROM offers users a multi-media learning environment for professional development on topics ranging from instruction to assessment, and that stimulates action, reflection, and discussion with dynamic video clips, children's work samples, and interviews with students and teachers.

Fostering Children's Mathematical Development focuses on short video clips from classroom situations, providing opportunities to observe, analyze, and discuss critical moments in children's development, and then to build a landscape of the ideas, strategies, and models of early number, addition, and subtraction development.

Users also study teachers at work: designing rich contexts for problem-solving; drawing connections between mathematical ideas and strategies; and developing a vibrant mathematical community. System Requirements for CD-ROM

Windows/PC

Pentium II Processor

266Mhz (or higher)

Windows 98 (or higher)

64 MB RAM (more recommended)

SVGA Color Display (or better)

4X CD-ROM Drive (or faster)

Sound Card

16-bit Flash(TM) Player and Acrobat Reader(R)

Quicktime 6.0 (or higher)

MacIntosh

PowerPC Processor

G3/233Mhz (or higher)

System 9.2 (or higher)

64 MB RAM (more recommended)

SVGA Color Display (or better)

4X CD-ROM Drive (or faster)

Sound Card

16-bit Flash(TM) Player and Acrobat Reader(R) Quicktime 6.0 (or higher)

Designed for workshop participants and preservice teachers, the Fostering Children's Mathematical Development CD-ROM offers users a multi-media learning environment for professional development on topics ranging from instruction to assessment.

Designed for workshop participants and preservice teachers, the Fostering Childrens Mathematical Development CD-ROM offers users a multi-media learning environment for professional development on topics ranging from instruction to assessment.

Maarten Dolk is a researcher and developer at the Freudenthal Institute for science and mathematics education in the Netherlands. He is involved in the development and research of in-service and multimedia in-service materials for teachers, staff developers, and teacher educators in a number of countries. He has been a collaborating partner in Mathematics in the City since its inception and is co-author of the first three books in the Young Mathematicians at Work series.Catherine Twomey Fosnot is the Founding Director of Mathematics in the City and former Professor of Education at The City College of the City of New York. She has twice received 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 the lead author of the Contexts for Learning Mathematics series as well as the Young Mathematicians at Work series.