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Author: Jennifer S. McCray (Erikson Institute, USA) ,
Jie-Qi Chen (Erikson Institute, USA) ,
Janet Eisenband Sorkin (University of Chicago, USA)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.334kg
ISBN: 9781138182370
ISBN 10: 1138182370
Pages: 214
Publication Date: 01 October 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Growing Mathematical Minds is a remarkable, lucid, and inviting introduction to early math education. The book offers prominent researchers' accounts of their own fundamental work on children's mathematical thinking, as well teachers' comments on the research and suggestions about the ways it can be used to inform classroom practice. The book truly helps both researchers and teachers to bridge the sometimes considerable gap between theory and practice, in part by listening and responding to each other. -Herbert Ginsburg, Jacob H. Schiff Foundations Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA With this book, Dr. McCray and her co-authors do a real service both to educators and to researchers in the field of early mathematics learning. There is now so much to know about early math education that we spend our careers becoming experts in just one thing: We either know how to teach math, or we know how to do research on it. But because teachers and researchers don't spend much time in each other's worlds, a gulf arises. Math researchers (like me) want our work to be useful, but we don't actually know what teachers need. Teachers want to stay up to date on the relevant research, but much of that research is embargoed behind paywalls-- and even if it weren't, what teacher has time to read through it all to figure out what's relevant? In this book, Dr. McCray and her co-authors have boiled the current research down to its most important insights, and presented them in a way that is immediately usable in classrooms. This is the missing link that we all need, in order to reach our shared goal of using research to improve early math education. -Barbara Sarnecka, Associate Professor, Cognitive Sciences and Logic & Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine, USA
Growing Mathematical Minds is a remarkable, lucid, and inviting introduction to early math education. The book offers prominent researchers' accounts of their own fundamental work on children's mathematical thinking, as well teachers' comments on the research and suggestions about the ways it can be used to inform classroom practice. The book truly helps both researchers and teachers to bridge the sometimes considerable gap between theory and practice, in part by listening and responding to each other. -Herbert Ginsburg, Jacob H. Schiff Foundations Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, USA With this book, Dr. McCray and her co-authors do a real service both to educators and to researchers in the field of early mathematics learning. There is now so much to know about early math education that we spend our careers becoming experts in just one thing: We either know how to teach math, or we know how to do research on it. But because teachers and researchers don't spend much time in each other's worlds, a gulf arises. Math researchers (like me) want our work to be useful, but we don't actually know what teachers need. Teachers want to stay up to date on the relevant research, but much of that research is embargoed behind paywalls-- and even if it weren't, what teacher has time to read through it all to figure out what's relevant? In this book, Dr. McCray and her co-authors have boiled the current research down to its most important insights, and presented them in a way that is immediately usable in classrooms. This is the missing link that we all need, in order to reach our shared goal of using research to improve early math education. -Barbara Sarnecka, Associate Professor, Cognitive Sciences and Logic & Philosophy of Science, University of California, Irvine, USA
Author Information
Jennifer McCray is a Research Scientist and the Director of the Early Math Collaborative at Erikson Institute. Jie-Qi Chen is the Principal Investigator of the Early Math Collaborative and a professor of child development at Erikson Institute. Dr. Chen has co-authored and co-edited seven books in the fields of child development, educational reform, classroom assessment, and early mathematics. Janet Eisenband Sorkin is Senior Assessment Development Associate for Mathematics at the University of Chicago.
