Motivation and Disposition 2011: Pathways to Learning Mathematics - 73rd Yearbook

Brahier, Daniel J.; Speer, William R. (editors)

ISBN 10: 0873536614 / ISBN 13: 9780873536615

Published by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Motivation and Disposition 2011: Pathways to Learning Mathematics - 73rd Yearbook
• Publisher: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873536614
• ISBN 13: 9780873536615
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket - as Issued

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Synopsis

Teaching mathematics is a much broader endeavor than simply helping students to acquire skills and problem-solving strategies. Teachers also strive to develop motivation and positive dispositions toward studying mathematics-aspects that will have long-term effects on everything from students' confidence to do mathematics to their career choices. Each lesson in a mathematics classroom should take into account students' motivation level and dispositions and have as a goal the development of these affective characteristics. Explore a wide variety of perspectives on motivation and disposition as these concepts relate to mathematics teaching and learning. NCTM's seventy-third yearbook examines such elements as the demographic composition of a school; the role of movies, television and the Internet; and nontraditional pedagogy as means of promoting and influencing positive student and teacher dispositions. Motivation and disposition can arise from diverse sources and many factors can magnify-or diminish-both. The presence or lace of curiosity, ambition, parental influence, teacher encouragement, peer pressure and future goals-these and other elements play central roles. Against these realities, cumbersome rhetoric is less effective than concrete ideas for implementation-this book offers a perspective to the reader that reinforces action.