Teaching Secondary School Mathematics: Techniques and Enrichment Units - Softcover

Posamentier, Alfred S.; Stepelman, Jay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067521209X ISBN 13: 9780675212090

Publisher: Pearson College Div, 1990

Synopsis

This practical book leads the way in secondary mathematics instruction with unique enrichment units, technology updates, and a highly readable style. It provides step-by step techniques on preparing lessons and tests, motivating students, designing assignments, and organizing the classroom. Also included are “hands-on” activities enrichment units, teaching strategies, and pre- and post-tests that are cross-referenced to methods presented earlier in the text. Explores the use of technology, with special emphasis on the application and uses of the Geometer's Sketchpad software program. Also updates the graphics calculator's application in the classroom and includes extensive references to the World Wide Web. Provides a more detailed discussion of problem-solving strategies, in a particularly strong chapter on problem solving, which reflects the mandate that problem solving, be one of the prime concerns for mathematics instruction today.

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From the Publisher

The practical alternative to texts that are too long on theory and too short on techniques! In the first half of the text, the author presents a wealth of specific, step-by-step techniques and skills for teaching secondary mathematics. He includes such topics as preparing lessons and tests, motivating, designing assignments, and organizing the classroom. The second half consists of 120 self-contained enrichment units...hands-on ideas ready for use in junior and senior high classrooms, together with performance objectives, motivation ideas, teaching strategies, and pre- and post-tests...each cross-referenced to methods coverage presented earlier.

From the Back Cover

Key Benefit: The practical alternative to books that are too long on theory and too short on techniques! In the first half of the book, the author presents a wealth of specific, step-by-step techniques and skills for teaching secondary mathematics. Key Topics: Included are such topics as preparing lessons and tests, motivating, designing assignments, and organizing the classroom. The second half consists of 120 self-contained enrichment units...hands-on ideas ready for use in junior and senior high classrooms, together with performance objectives, motivation ideas, teaching strategies, and pre- and post-tests...each cross-referenced to methods coverage presented earlier.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson College Div
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 067521209X
• ISBN 13: 9780675212090
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 478