International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning for Mathematical Literacy

Oda Heidi Bolstad, Simon Goodchild, Merrilyn Goos (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-50451-6 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on international research and practice on teaching and learning for mathematical literacy. It offers a fresh perspective on mathematical literacy, and the chapters include practical examples that educators and students may adapt for their own needs.

Mathematics plays an important role in today’s world and is used in daily life more than is often appreciated. Mathematical literacy denotes the competence to deal with the mathematical issues of life in modern society. The underlying purpose of this book is to support the development of rich understandings and practices of how an education for mathematical literacy can be realised. The collected works, emerging from several educational systems, offer a fresh perspective on mathematical literacy and the chapters include practical examples that teachers, pre-service teachers, and teacher educators might adapt to their own needs.

Oda Heidi Bolstad is Associate Professor of Mathematics Education at Volda University College, Norway. She is a teacher educator and her research areas include mathematical literacy and mathematical modelling. Simon Goodchild was Professor at the University of Agder, Norway. He was a mathematics teacher educator who has published research on mathematics teaching in higher education. Merrilyn Goos is Adjunct Professor of Education at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. She is a mathematics educator who has published research and teacher education resources on numeracy across the curriculum and across the lifespan.

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1 International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning for Mathematical Literacy: An Introduction

Oda Heidi Bolstad and Simon Goodchild

Part 1: Mathematical Literacy in Teaching and Teacher Education

2 Preparing Pre-service Teachers to Engage in Mathematical Literacy Practices across the Curriculum

Kathy O’Sullivan and Merrilyn Goos

3 The Teaching of Mathematical Literacy in Four South African Classrooms

Ellamma Pillay and Sarah Bansilal

Part 2: Designing and Evaluating Mathematical Literacy Tasks

4 Levels of Context Use: An Analytical Tool to Inform the Influence of Problem Context on Students’ Performance and to Construct Mathematical Problems

Felipe Almuna and Kaye Stacey

5 Interplay between Contextual and Mathematical Literacy in Task Design: The Math-LIGHT Program as an Example

Roza Leikin, Masha Boriskovsky and Math-LIGHT team

Part 3: Mathematical Literacy in Real World Tasks and Experiences

6 Supporting Teachers to Develop Mathematical Literacy through Contemporary Financial Contexts

Carly Sawatzki, Jill Brown and Tim Powers

7 Mathematical Literacy in the Context of Statistics: A Theoretical Discussion and an Example from a Research Project

Jonas Bergman Ärlebäck, Peter Frejd, Robert Schaller and Patrick Bergman Skiba

8 Fostering Student’s Mathematical Literacy through Mathematical Modelling Tasks

Peter Frejd, Jonas Bergman Ärlebäck and Pauline Vos

9 Mathematical Literacy as a Disruptive Innovation

Merrilyn Goos

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Mathematics Teaching and Learning ; 6
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	524 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
ISBN-10	90-04-50451-6 / 9004504516
ISBN-13	978-90-04-50451-6 / 9789004504516
Zustand	Neuware