Masterclass In Mathematics Education

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MasterClass in Mathematics Education provides accessible links between theory and practice and encourages readers to reflect on their own understanding of their teaching context. Each chapter, written by an internationally respected authority, explores the key concepts within the selected area of the field, drawing directly on published research to encourage readers to reflect on the content, ideas and ongoing debates.

Using international case studies, each chapter will encourage readers to think about ways that the teaching and learning of mathematics reflect different cultural traditions and expectations and enable them to evaluate effective strategies for their own contexts. Review: This volume constitutes a Masters-level introduction to research on mathematics education, as it is done in the UK and the Anglosphere at large.

Each of the 17 chapters is written by distinguished scholars, and provides a personal and stringent overview of a specific research theme, based on a few carefully chosen references. Carl Winslow, Professor of Didactics of Mathematics, University of Copenhagen Seventeen chapters take the reader to the heart of seventeen key issues.

A great companion for students embarking on academic study in mathematics education. John Monaghan, Professor of Mathematics Education, University of Leeds, UK This book provides an insightful overview of many of the key issues in mathematics education. Written by key educators in the field, it is an essential resource for all those with a deep interest in developing an effective and enriched approach to the teaching and learning of mathematics.

Keith Jones, Associate Professor in Education, University of Southampton, UK This is a very interesting and instructive book, useful for every student, teacher and researcher of mathematics education. It gives a deep insight on some general and actual questions of mathematics teaching as well as on teaching some concrete mathematical topics - based on contemporary research, embedded in an international context.

Judit Torok, Lecturer in Mathematics Education, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary Each of the chapters in this excellent collection addresses a key issue in mathematics education by presenting and discussing a set of core readings, i.e. significant papers published previously on the issue in question.

This allows the authors, all prominent researchers in their respective fields, to sum up important research findings as well as to highlight different aspects of the research process such as the purposes of mathematics education research, the significance of methodological and theoretical choices for the questions asked and for the results obtained, and the relationships between findings based on different theoretical and methodological approaches.

This dual emphasis on the results obtained and the research process makes it highly recommendable for all students who need an introduction to mathematics education research. Jeppe Skott, Professor of Mathematics Education, Linnaeus University, Sweden This book is a threshold for readers who are embarking on higher degree study in mathematics education.

The authors, who are world-class researchers, have provided accessible and deeply knowledgeable chapters that draw readers into the central concerns of this field of research - which are also the central concerns of practice. Anne Watson, Professor of Mathematics Education, University of Oxford, UK With its intriguing blend of core concepts and innovative ideas, this timely volume presents a judicious review of the major content domains of interest to any mathematics teachers embarking on a research career.

I was particularly struck by the creative way the authors use content aspects to address salient wider issues. The volume will also prove indispensable to mathematics educators when building core courses and as a stimulus for critical thinking and further study. This book should be on the shelves of every aspiring mathematics education teacher.

Michal Yerushalmy, Professor of Mathematics Education and Technology, University of H