Education for Mathematics in the Workplace

Everyone concerned with vocational education, everyone interested in cultural and cognitive aspects of mathematics

List of contents

Mathematical Knowledge in School and at Work.- Preface.- The Transfer of Mathematics Learning From School to Work Not Straightforward But Not Impossible Either!.- Working Knowledge: Mathematics in Use.- Forms of Mathematical Knowledge Relating to Measurement in Vocational Training for the Building Industry.- The Integration of Mathematics into Vocational Courses.- Mathematical Means and Models from Vocational Contexts.- Bringing School and Workplace Together.- Preface.- Working Mathematics for Learners with Lower Abilities.- Classroom Teachers Doing Research in the Workplace.- Making Authentic Mathematics Work for All Students.- Mathematics Knowledge as a Vocational Qualification.- Educating Future Workers.- Preface.- Geometry at Work.- Teaching Mathematics to Shop-Assistant Apprentices Exploring Content and Didactical Situations.- Developing a New Mathematics Crriculum for Post-Compulsory Education.- Research Methods for Mathematics at Work.- Preface.- The Mathematical Needs of Engineering Apprentices.- Identification of some Mathematical needs Linked to the Use of Mathematics at work.- Ethnography and the Situatedness of Workplace Numeracy.- Visibility of Mathematical Objects Present in Professional Practice.- Conclusion.

Product details

• Assisted by: Bessot (Editor), A Bessot (Editor), A. Bessot (Editor), Annie Bessot (Editor), RIDGWAY (Editor), Ridgway (Editor), J. Ridgway (Editor), Jim Ridgway (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.2010
• EAN: 9789048156009
• ISBN: 978-90-481-5600-9
• No. of pages: 265
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 16 mm x 203 mm
• Weight: 320 g
• Illustrations: XXIV, 265 p.
• Series: Mathematics Education Library; Mathematics Education Library
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology