Teaching Math, Science, and Technology in Schools Today

Guidelines for Engaging Both Eager and Reluctant Learners

By (author) Dennis Adams, Mary Hamm

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Publication date:

19 February 2014

Length of book:

176 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781475809053

Teaching Math, Science, and Technology in Schools Today: Guidelines for Engaging Both Eager and Reluctant Learners offers unique, engaging, and thought-provoking ideas. The activities open imaginative doors to learning and provide opportunities for all learners. It surveys today’s most important trends and dilemmas while explaining how collaboration and critical thinking can be translated into fresh classroom practices. Questions, engagement, and curiosity are viewed as natural partners for mathematical problem solving, scientific inquiry, and learning about technology. Like the Common Core State Standards, the book builds on the social nature of learning to provide suggestions for both eager and reluctant learners. The overall goal of the book is to deepen the collective conversation, challenge thinking, and provide some up-to-date tools for teachers so they can help reverse the steady erosion of math, science, and technology understanding in the general population.

Preface
Chapter 1: Helping All Students Learn About Math and Science
Chapter 2: Creative and Inventive Thinking: Collaborative Inquiry, Open-Ended Problem Solving, and Innovation
Chapter 3: Mathematical Problem Solving: Reasoning and Collaborating in an Age of Data
Chapter 4: Science Involving All Students with Active Involvement and Collaborative Inquiry
Chapter 5: Technology: The Powerful Possibility of Tools

Adams and Hamm focus on creativity and innovation in teaching math, science, and technology. The book points out the importance of original thinking while providing activities that help students express themselves in many ways. The book also does an excellent job of focusing and helping both eager and reluctant learners to achieve academic success. A major strength is providing methods teachers can use to make sense of the world they live in. As a teacher in the 21^st century, I know that it is important that students are given the opportunity to reflect and be open to new ideas, and this book is beneficial in realizing this approach.