Description
Finally, a resource that guides teachers in answering the challenge of how to create an engaging and effective mathematics environment that supports culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) learners, including English language learners.
Based on years of extensive research into working with CLD students along with personal experiences as a mathematics teacher and teacher supervisor, Arthur Johnson presents classroom teachers with the strategies, techniques, and practices proven to effectively help CLD learners thrive in mathematics. In his newest book, Teaching Mathematics to Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners, Johnson explains the important role mathematics has for CLD learners and provides a foundation for understanding the challenges these students face (including how cultural background affects CLD learners), and those classroom-tested strategies that help them learn mathematics. He has filled his book with real teacher experiences and steps you might take to help each student, examples of surveys, lesson plans, suitable projects, resources in Spanish, multicultural books, and much more to effectively help teachers with CLD learners to learn and understand mathematics to be more than just numbers.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners xx
Growing Diversity in American Student Population
The Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Student in mathematics
Levels of English Language acquisition
Chapter 2 Teaching CLD Students xx
The Teacher Makes a Difference
Attitude Matters
Knowledge of CLD learners and Their Culture
Classroom Communication
Teaching Strategies and English Acquisition Levels
Chapter 3 Organizing for Instruction and Assessment xx
The Student as Learner
Organizing for Instruction
Mathematics Texts and Materials
Planning a Lesson for CLD Students
Technology
Assessment
Chapter 4 The Language of Mathematics xx
The Vocabulary of Mathematics
The Symbolic Language of Mathematics and CLD Learners
Alternative Algorithms
Chapter 5 Multiculturalism in the Mathematics Classroom xx
Multiculturalism Matters
Ethnomathematics
Multicultural Topics in Mathematics
Appendix xx
Lesson Plans and Materials for CLD Students
Resources in Spanish
Resources for Teaching Mathematics to African-American Learners
Multicultural Web Sites
Interactive Mathematics Sites
Multicultural Books with a Mathematics Theme
Spanish Language Books with a Mathematics Theme
A Bookshelf for Teaching Math to CLD Learners
Blackline Masters
References
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Teaching Mathematics to Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners, CourseSmart eTextbook
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$13.99 | ISBN-13: 978-0-13-702262-5
