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Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You'd Had | Stenhouse Publishers

"Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You'd Had" shows teachers how to make math class more like the playful, creative, and captivating experience mathematicians describe. Author Tracy Zager tackles big ideas and instructional decisions, drawing on years of work with amazing teachers from across the country." summarizes Education Week.



"While mathematicians describe mathematics as playful, beautiful, creative, and captivating, many students describe math class as boring, stressful, useless, and humiliating. In Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You’d Had, Tracy Zager helps teachers close this gap by making math class more like mathematics."

Tracy spent years with highly skilled math teachers in a diverse range of settings and grades. You’ll find this book jam-packed with new thinking from these vibrant classrooms. You’ll grapple with big ideas: How is taking risks inherent to mathematics? How do mathematicians balance intuition and proof? How can teachers value both productive mistakes and precision? You’ll also find dozens of practical teaching techniques you can try in your classroom right away—strategies to stimulate students to connect ideas; rich tasks that encourage students to wonder, generalize, conjecture, and persevere; routines to teach students how to collaborate.

Table of Contents

    Foreword
    Acknowledgments
    Chapter 1: Breaking the Cycle
    Chapter 2: What Do Mathematicians Do?
    Chapter 3: Mathematicians Take Risks
    Chapter 4: Mathematicians Make Mistakes
    Chapter 5: Mathematicians Are Precise
    Chapter 6: Mathematicians Rise to a Challenge
    Chapter 7: Mathematicians Ask Questions
    Chapter 8: Mathematicians Connect Ideas
    Chapter 9: Mathematicians Use Intuition
    Chapter 10: Mathematicians Reason
    Chapter 11: Mathematicians Prove
    Chapter 12: Mathematicians Work Together and Alone
    Chapter 13: "Favorable Conditions" for All Math Students
    References
    Index


Preview the entire book online!

About Tracy Johnston Zager 
Tracy has worked in many schools over the course of her career, first as a fourth-grade teacher, then as a supervisor of pre-service teachers and their in-service mentors, and currently as a math coach. Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You’d Had grew out of Tracy’s work in classrooms, where she's most in her element, learning together with teachers and students over time. 
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