The Math Teachers Know: Profound Understanding of Emergent Mathematics - Hardcover

Davis, Brent; Renert, Moshe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415858437 ISBN 13: 9780415858434

Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

What sorts of mathematics competencies must teachers have in order to teach the discipline well? This book offers a novel take on the question. Most research is focused on explicit knowledge–that is, on the sorts of insights that might be specified, catalogued, taught, and tested. In contrast, this book focuses on the tacit dimensions of teachers’ mathematics knowledge that precede and enable their competencies with formal mathematics. It highlights the complexity of this knowledge and offers strategies to uncover it, analyze it, and re-synthesize it in ways that will make it more available for teaching. Emerging from 10 years of collaborative inquiry with practicing teachers, it is simultaneously informed by the most recent research and anchored to the realities of teachers’ lives in classrooms.

About this title

About the Author

Brent Davis is Professor and Distinguished Research Chair in Mathematics Education at the University of Calgary, Canada.

Moshe Renert is a noted mathematics educator in Western Canada with extensive teaching experience at secondary and post-secondary levels

Review

"This book argues convincingly that teaching mathematics is a complex process and teachers need to reflect on fundamental ideas. It raises important questions, provides practical examples, and offers invaluable insights into mathematics teaching. Summing up: Recommended." - H.P. Koirala, Eastern Connecticut State University, in CHOICE, January 2014

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0415858437
• ISBN 13: 9780415858434
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 152