Overview
- Includes extensive qualitative analyses of classroom mathematics teaching and learning
- Illustrates the impact of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act on the accountability system
- Proposes a set of solutions for improving mathematical understanding among teachers across the country
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This volume examines how several key components of the mathematics education system in the United States fail to provide teachers with adequate and effective tools to teach mathematics in K-12 classrooms. These components consist of teachers’ own learning experiences as students in K-12 classrooms, their undergraduate or graduate trainings in mathematics, and their in-service professional development trainings. Newton argues that unless we improve these system components as a whole and recognize the importance of teaching future mathematics teachers explicitly and rigorously the topics they are expected to teach, teachers will continue to recycle a body of incoherent and incomprehensible mathematical knowledge to their students, because these are the only types of mathematical knowledge they have at their disposal, both in terms of what they themselves have learned as K-12 students and in terms of the mathematical resources available to them, including the textbooks they rely on to teach as mathematics teachers.
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Reviews
“This book is a timely and welcome exposition of the key issues involved in teaching school mathematics effectively and a convincing reminder that teachers' mathematical content knowledge will be foundational to better student learning.” (Hung-Hsi Wu, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
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Xiaoxia A. Newton is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Education, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Improving Teacher Knowledge in K-12 Schooling
Book Subtitle: Perspectives on STEM Learning
Authors: Xiaoxia A. Newton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71207-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71206-2Published: 23 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10026-1Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71207-9Published: 15 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 198
Number of Illustrations: 29 b/w illustrations
Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Learning & Instruction, Schools and Schooling