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This volume reexamines the community college's functional missions in the context of both long-established and emerging societal missions. Written for college leaders, scholars, and policymakers, Community College Missions in the 21st Century addr...

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How can you build on young childrens interactions with the world to develop their geometric thinking? What can you say to a student who claims that a diamond isnt a square because it stands on a point? How can knowing what does not change when sha...

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How can you introduce terms from geometry and measurement so that your students vocabulary will enhance their understanding of concepts and definitions? What can you say to clarify the thinking of a student who claims that perimeter is always an e...

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Do your students believe that division "doesn't make sense" if the divisor is greater than the dividend? Explore rich, researched-based strategies and tasks that show how students are reasoning about and making sense of mulitplicati...

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Do your students say that one object is bigger than another without attending more precisely to the attribute they are comparing? Do they have difficulty naming numbers from 11 to 19? Do some students still count all while their classmates are cou...

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Do your students have the incorrect idea that addition makes numbers bigger and subtraction makes numbers smaller? Do they believe that subtraction is always taking away? What tasks can you offer - what questions can you ask - to determine what yo...

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Do your students suppose that if the perimeter of a shape increases, the area also increases? Do they think that area is the product of base and height, without understanding that this applies only to parallelograms? Do they believe that a transfo...

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This book, the eleventh in the Putting Essential Understanding into Practice Series, focuses on misconceptions about variables, expressions, equations, and functions that students often bring to grades 68. The authors present tasks given to middle...

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Stop algebra from being a mathematical gatekeeper. With rich math tasks, all students can succeed.  Every teacher strives to make instruction effective and interesting, yet traditional methods of teaching algebra are not working for many stud...

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A schoolwide solution for students’ mathematics success! Do you sometimes start to teach a mathematics concept and feel like you’re staring at a sea of bewildered faces? What happens when you discover students previously learned a calc...

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A volume in Research in Mathematics Education Series Editor Barbara J. Dougherty, University of Mississippi This monograph reports on an analysis of a small part of the mathematics curriculum, the definitions given to quadrilaterals. This kind of ...

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A volume in Research in Mathematics Education Series Editor Barbara J. Dougherty, University of Mississippi This monograph reports on an analysis of a small part of the mathematics curriculum, the definitions given to quadrilaterals. This kind of ...

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A volume in Research in Mathematics Education Series Editor Barbara J. Dougherty, University of Mississippi This volume investigates the evolution of the geometry curriculum in the United States over the past 150 years. A primary goal is to increa...

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A volume in Research in Mathematics Education Series Editor Barbara J. Dougherty, University of Mississippi This volume investigates the evolution of the geometry curriculum in the United States over the past 150 years. A primary goal is to increa...

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This concise pocket guide is the first of its kind to provide a solid foundation for those who are involved in academic orthopedic surgery education for medical students, residents, and faculty and program heads. Opening with an exploration of the...

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This is a delightful children's book that shows how young boys who might feel lonely at times use their imaginations to dream about their futures and all the possible careers they can have all while being loved by their family. Young adults who ar...

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This is a delightful children's book that shows how young girls who might feel lonely at times use their imaginations to dreamabout their futures and all the possible careers they can have all while being loved by their family. Young adults who ar...

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