Young Mathematicians at Work, Volume 3 : Constructing Fractions, Decimals, and Percents

by Catherine Twomey Fosnot, Maarten Dolk

In our efforts to reform mathematics education, we've learned a tremendous amount about young students' strategies and the ways they construct knowledge, without fully understanding how to support such development over time. The Dutch do. So, funded by the National Science Foundation and ExxonMobil, Mathematics in the City was begun, a collaborative inservice project that pooled the best thinking from both countries. In Young Mathematicians at Work , Catherine Fosnot and Maarten Dolk reveal what they learned after several years of intensive study in numerous urban classrooms. In this third volume in a series of three, Fosnot and Dolk focus on how children in grades 5-8 construct their knowledge of fractions, decimals, and percents. Their book:

192 pages, Paperback

First published March 30, 2001

About the author

Cathy Fosnot is a leading voice in mathematics education. She is Professor Emerita of Education at the City College of New York and the founder of Mathematics in the City, a national center for professional development located at the college. In 2007 she established New Perspectives on Learning to devote her time to speaking around the world, fostering school change through professional learning and support, and producing new resources and materials.

Reviews

[Ren · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is amazing - any of this series is great - and the whole "mathematizing" approach is truly awesome. This book had a huge impact on how I think about math and I'm incredibly excited to read more of their work.

[Miguel Ángel Moreno · Rating 5 out of 5]

Leído en inglés. Este libro muestra la enseñanza de las fracciones desde el punto de vista de la matemática realista (freudenthal). Contiene numerosos ejemplos y casos reales.