Description: Focused on all the complex aspects of teaching mathematics in today's classroom--and the most current NCTM recommendations and standards--this book shows users how to creatively incorporate the Standards into their teaching-- along with inquiry instructional strategies (for leading pupils to do meaningful mathematics) and direct strategies (for developing mathematical skills). KEY TOPICS": Interactive in approach, it includes an abundance of illustrative examples, numerous cases, one expansive case study that follows a mathematics teacher through his first year in the profession, cooperative learning activities, field-based activities, and transitional activities. Features over 150 scenarios" (cases) that explore actual classroom experiences, following teachers' thought, actions, and reactions, as they design, organize, conduct, evaluate, and re-design lessons for all classes of mathematics instruction. For secondary and middle school mathematics teachers.

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