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Author Thom, Jennifer S. (Jennifer Susan)

Title Re-Rooting the Learning Space : Minding Where Children's Mathematics Grow.

Publication Info. Boston : BRILL, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (418 pages).
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Series New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education Ser.
New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education Ser.
Contents Preliminary Material -- We are Connected to this Earth -- Significances in the Flow of Interacting -- Encircling our Perceptions -- Traditions, Tensions, and Transitions -- Portraits of Mathematical Understanding -- New Furniture -- Languaging Emergent Mathematics -- Atmosphere and Recognizing Differences -- Attending to the Physical Space in the Classroom -- Conceptualization of Time -- Making Three Spaces for Recursion -- A Snowflake of a Different Kind -- Re-Viewing and Seeing Differently -- Recursion as Relations -- Understandings that Speak to One Another -- Free Ideas and Connecting as Shape-Shifting -- Opening Spaces of their Own -- Mathematics Beyond the Classroom -- Connecting me, Connecting us -- Connecting us to IT -- Spaces for Unpredictable Mathematics -- Off the Trail -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Summary To understand a living system, such as a tree, in an ecologically systemic way involves more than simply reducing the tree down to its parts or by analyzing the tree from part to whole. Not only does one need to study the tree's leaves, stems, branches, trunk, root system, and its interaction with the environment but from many vantage points to make sense of how each part exists in dynamic relationship with the others as an integrated system. The same is true about the purpose of this book . It is not meant to be a recipe for how to teach mathematics well or to serve as simply a descriptive account of a teaching practice. It is in essence, a systemic exploration into the embeddedness and co-emergence of theory and practice in mathematics teaching. This book is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in mathematics education and curriculum studies. With its up close and contextual forms of data and a variety of interpretive methods used for the analyses, this book is highly suitable for courses in research. The audience includes professors, teacher educators, and in-service teachers who are interested in ecological theories and how these inform mathematics teaching and learning. ".
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Subject Mathematics -- Study and teaching.
Mathematics -- Study and teaching.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Thom, Jennifer S. Re-Rooting the Learning Space : Minding Where Children's Mathematics Grow. Boston : BRILL, ©2012 9789460914294
ISBN 9004406182
9789004406186 (electronic book)
9789460914294
9460914292
9460914284
9789460914287