Creating a Language-Rich Math Class av Sandra L. (Creating AHAs LLC USA) Atkins

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<BLOCKQUOTE><P>What meanings do your students have for key mathematics concepts? What meanings do you wish them to have? <I>Creating a Language-Rich Math Class </I>offers practical approaches for developing conceptual understandings by connecting concrete, pictorial, verbal, and symbolic representations. The focus is on making mathematics memorable instead of on memorizing.</P></BLOCKQUOTE><P>You''ll learn strategies for introducing students to math language that gives meaning to the terms and symbols they use every day; for building flexibility and precision in students'' use of math language; and for structuring activities to make them more language-rich. This second edition also provides strategies for helping students to at times be quiet and listen to their peers; for purposefully using language to introduce students to more complex mathematical symbolism and algebraic properties; and for using writing prompts to zoom in on the meanings that individual students have given to the l