Teaching with Tasks for Effective Mathematics Learning [Paperback]

This book is about how teachers can use classroom mathematics tasks to supportstudent learning, and presents data on the ways in which teachers used thosetasks in a particular research project. It is the product of research findingsfocusing on teacher practice, teacher learning and knowledge, and studentlearning. It demonstrates how teachers can use mathematics tasks to promoteeffective student learning.This book shows how teachers can use classroom mathematics tasks to support student learning, presenting data on the ways in which teachers used those tasks in a specific research project. Demonstrates how use of mathematics can promote effective learning.1. Researching Tasks in Mathematics Classrooms.- 2. Perspectives on Mathematics, Learning and Teaching.- 3. Tasks and Mathematics Learning. 4. Using Purposeful Presentational Tasks.- 5. Using Mathematical Tasks Arising from Contexts.- 6. Using Content-Specific Open-Ended Tasks.- 7. Moving from the Task to the Lesson: Pedagogical Practices and other Issues.- 8. Constructing a Sequencing of Lessons.- 9. Students' Preferences for Different Types of Mathematics Tasks.- 10. Students Perceptions of Characteristics of Desired Mathematics Lessons.- 11. Contrasting Types of Tasks: A Story of Three Lessons. - 12. Conclusions.- 13. A Selection.

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In this book, Sullivan, Clarke and Clarke make an important contribution to the growing literature on mathematics tasks as they outline the findings from their three-year project Task Types in Mathematics Learning & . This book underlines the value of research-designed and collaboratively-developed mathematics tasks. & this book will be very widely read, and that the tasks found here, and others like them, will be able to benefit many more students of mathematics. (Colin Foster, Research in Mathematics Education, Vol. 15 (3), 2013)

The authors discuss a wide variety of classroom mathematical tasks that may enhance the learning olSx