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Teaching Math, Science, and Technology in Schools Today: Guidelines for Engaging Both Eager and Reluctant Learners offers unique, engaging, and thought-provoking ideas. It surveys today's most important trends and dilemmas while explaining how collaboration and critical thinking can be translated into fresh classroom practices.
List of contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Helping All Students Learn About Math and Science
Chapter 2: Creative and Inventive Thinking: Collaborative Inquiry, Open-Ended Problem Solving, and Innovation
Chapter 3: Mathematical Problem Solving: Reasoning and Collaborating in an Age of Data
Chapter 4: Science Involving All Students with Active Involvement and Collaborative Inquiry
Chapter 5: Technology: The Powerful Possibility of Tools
About the author
Dennis Adams is a former Fulbright Scholar who taught elementary school and also higher education at the University of Minnesota, University of Maine, and McGill University in Montreal. He did graduate work at Harvard University and has a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of more than twenty books and more than a hundred journal articles on various educational topics.
Mary Hamm has taught at Ohio State University and the University of Colorado. More recently, she has been teaching at San Francisco State University. She has worked on both the math and science standards and has published more than a dozen books and eighty journal articles on these subjects.
Summary
Teaching Math, Science, and Technology in Schools Today: Guidelines for Engaging Both Eager and Reluctant Learners offers unique, engaging, and thought-provoking ideas. It surveys today's most important trends and dilemmas while explaining how collaboration and critical thinking can be translated into fresh classroom practices.
