Mathematical Mindsets : Unleashing Students' Potential Through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching.

Mathematical Mindsets : Unleashing Students' Potential Through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and Innovative Teaching.

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Banish math anxiety and give students of all ages a clear roadmap to success Mathematical Mindsets provides practical strategies and activities to help teachers and parents show all children, even those who are convinced that they are bad at math, that they can enjoy and succeed in math. Jo Boaler-S...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Boaler, Jo, 1964-
Other Authors: Dweck, Carol S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2015.
Subjects:
Mathematics > Study and teaching (Secondary)
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 The Brain and Mathematics Learning
  • Chapter 2 The Power of Mistakes and Struggle
  • Mistakes in Life
  • How Can We Change the Ways Students View Mistakes?
  • Chapter 3 The Creativity and Beauty in Mathematics
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 4 Creating Mathematical Mindsets: The Importance of Flexibility with Numbers
  • Number Sense
  • What about Math Facts?
  • How Important Is Math Practice?
  • What about Older Students?
  • Math Apps and Games
  • Wuzzit Trouble
  • Mathbreakers
  • Number Rack
  • Motion Math
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 5 Rich Mathematical Tasks
  • Case 1. Seeing the Openness of Numbers
  • Case 2. Growing Shapes: The Power of Visualization
  • Case 3. A Time to Tell?
  • Case 4. Seeing a Mathematical Connection for the First Time (Pascal's Triangle)
  • Case 5. The Wonders of Negative Space
  • Case 6. From Math Facts to Math Excitement
  • From Cases of Mathematics Excitement to the Design of Tasks
  • 1. Can You Open the Task to Encourage Multiple Methods, Pathways, and Representations?
  • 2. Can You Make It an Inquiry Task?
  • 3. Can You Ask the Problem Before Teaching the Method?
  • 4. Can You Add a Visual Component?
  • 5. Can You Make It Low Floor and High Ceiling?
  • 6. Can You Add the Requirement to Convince and Reason?
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 6 Mathematics and the Path to Equity
  • The Elitist Construction of Math
  • The Myth of the Mathematically Gifted Child
  • When Math Inequalities in Course Placement Become Illegal
  • Equitable Strategies
  • 1. Offer all students high-level content
  • 2. Work to change ideas about who can achieve in mathematics
  • 3. Encourage students to think deeply about mathematics
  • 4. Teach students to work together
  • 5. Give girls and students of color additional encouragement to learn math and science.
  • 6. Eliminate (or at least change the nature of) homework
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 7 From Tracking to Growth Mindset Grouping
  • Opportunities to Learn
  • De-Tracking
  • Growth Mindset Grouping
  • Teaching Heterogeneous Groups Effectively: The Mathematics Tasks
  • 1. Providing Open-Ended Tasks
  • 2. Offering a Choice of Tasks
  • 3. Individualized Pathways
  • Teaching Heterogeneous Groups Effectively: Complex Instruction
  • Multidimensionality
  • Roles
  • Assigning Competence
  • Teaching Students to Be Responsible for Each Other's Learning
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 8 Assessment for a Growth Mindset
  • Race to Nowhere
  • Assessment for Learning
  • Developing Student Self-Awareness and Responsibility
  • 1. Self-Assessment
  • 2. Peer Assessment
  • 3. Reflection Time
  • 4. Traffic Lighting
  • 5. Jigsaw Groups
  • 6. Exit Ticket
  • 7. Online Forms
  • 8. Doodling
  • 9. Students Write Questions and Tests
  • Diagnostic Comments
  • Advice on Grading
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 9 Teaching Mathematics for a Growth Mindset
  • Encourage All Students
  • Setting Up Classroom Norms
  • The Participation Quiz
  • Believe in All of Your Students
  • Value Struggle and Failure
  • Give Growth Praise and Help
  • Opening Mathematics
  • Teach Mathematics as an Open, Growth, Learning Subject
  • Encourage Students to Be Mathematicians
  • Teach Mathematics as a Subject of Patterns and Connections
  • Teach Creative and Visual Mathematics
  • Encourage Intuition and Freedom of Thought
  • Value Depth over Speed
  • Connect Mathematics to the World Using Mathematical Modeling
  • MP 4: Model with Mathematics
  • Encourage Students to Pose Questions, Reason, Justify, and Be Skeptical
  • Teach with Cool Technology and Manipulatives
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • About the Author
  • Index
  • EULA.

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