A recent assessment of mathematics performance around the world ranked the United States twenty-eighth out of forty countries in the study. When the level of spending was taken into account, we sank to the very bottom of the list. We are falling rapidly behind the rest of the developed world when it[...]
"Highly accessible and enjoyable for readers who love and loathe math." --"Booklist"
A critical read for teachers and parents who want to improve children's mathematics learning, "What's Math Got to Do with It?" is "an inspiring resource" ("Publishers Weekly"). Featuring all the important advice[...]
Helping Children Learn and Love Maths.
In math, like any subject, real learning takes place when students can connect what they already know to new ideas. In Connecting Mathematical Ideas, Jo Boaler and Cathy Humphreys offer a comprehensive way to improve your ability to help adolescents build connections between different mathematical i[...]
"Jo Boaler has written a stunning book. Clearly written and carefully researched, it is a model of technical rigour. A wide range of qualitative and quantitative data is marshalled to produce exhaustive case studies of two contrasting mathematics departments - one traditional and one progressive. Bo[...]
I Elefanten i klassrummet utmanar Jo Boaler den traditionella matematikundervisningen som präglas av ett perspektiv där matematiken framställs som en samling regler och standardmetoder som man måste lära sig. Hon hävdar, liksom många andra, att skolundervisningen bör ge barn en positiv uppfa[...]