TY  - BOOK
AU  - Graeber, Anna Olga
AU  - Valli,Linda
AU  - Newton,Kristie Jones
TI  - Upper elementary mathematics lessons: case studies of real teaching 
SN  - 9781442211964 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - QA 135.6 G734u 2011
U1  - 372.7 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Lanham, Md
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Study and teaching (Elementary)
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Matemáticas
KW  - Enseñanza primaria
KW  - Matemáticas elementales
KW  - Enseñanza
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; PrefaceAlternative Thematic FrameworksIntroductionPart I: The Teaching of Mathematics - Lesson CasesCase 1: Promoting One of the Meanings of Multiplication: Requesting Alternate Methods in Order to Foster UnderstandingCase 2: Fractions, Decimals and Percents: Evoking Student ReasoningCommentary: A Teacher Educator PerspectiveCase 3: Getting a Sense of Grams: Building Conceptual UnderstandingCommentary: A Teacher Educator PerspectiveCase 4: Converting Among Customary Units of Measure: Attending to Students' Developmental LevelsCommentary: A Teacher's PerspectiveCase 5: Converting Units Within a System of Measurement: Encouraging ResourcefulnessCommentary: An English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) PerspectiveCase 6: Distinguishing Between Area and Perimeter: Using Multiple Representations to Aid DiscriminationCase 7: Exploring the Meanings of "Volume": Recognizing a Word's Everyday Meaning and its Mathematical MeaningCommentary: An English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) PerspectiveCommentary: A Teacher's PerspectiveCase 8: The Importance of Sample Size: Posing High Level Questions to Build UnderstandingCommentary: A Teacher's PerspectiveCase 9: Continuous versus Discrete Data: Using Concept Attainment to Define Mathematical TermsPart II: Perspectives on Teaching - CommentariesLearner-Centered Psychological PrinciplesMoral Perspectives on TeachingPerspective from the Special Education Math LiteratureA Principal's PerspectiveReferencesList of Contributors
ER  -