Reconstructing Mathematics Education: Stories of Teachers Meeting the Challenge of Reform

by Deborah Schifter and Catherine Twomey Fosnot

Book Overview

In recent years, a consensus has emerged around a constructivist vision for mathematics education, but few have seriously considered how to realise this vision. Employing case studies, the authors provide images of what is possible with this new mathematics pedagogy. Reconstructing Mathematics Education contains the experiences of teachers who, guided by evolving constructivist understandings of mathematics learning, work to bring the vision to life...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807732060
• ISBN13: 9780807732069
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 216 Pages