E-book: Embracing Reason: Egalitarian Ideals and the Teaching of High School Mathematics

Chazan (mathematics, U. of Maryland) and his co-authors, who are high school mathematics teachers, offer their perspectives on the changes wrought by reforms in mathematics teaching practice. Along with high school students, postdoctoral researchers, teachers and administrators and college faculty, they explain their thoughts and actions as they sought to improve and expand basic skills, retention, inquiry, and critical thinking. In this case study they describe how theory informed practice and vice versa in assessment, curriculum and instructional models, planning, instructional tasks and classroom roles. They closely explain their students' experiences (with lots of help from the students themselves) and their own professional growth. They also consider how reforms in mathematics teaching changed how their students thought and dealt with other disciplines and behaviors. Lawrence Erlbaum is an imprint of Taylor & Francis. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)