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Overview
This book is one of very few which, address in detail and in-depth, how preservice teachers build important mathematical ideas. A detailed case study of important mathematical learning by five preservice elementary school teachers, who construct powerful mathematical ideas by working through a major influential construction personally.
Synopsis
Adresses in detail how preservice teachers build important mathematical ideas.
Booknews
Considers children's needs for intellectual rigor, as seen through the work and discourse of five undergraduate elementary education students who constructed a number system in base five and then reflected on their experience in light of what they know about young children's mathematics. Their experience runs counter to stock rhetoric about how education students might explore and use the mathematics they will teach. The authors are affiliated with Rutgers University and Brigham Young University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)