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Reconceptualizing Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers 3rd edition

Judith Sowder, Larry Sowder, and Susan Nickerson
Publisher: Macmillan Learning

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• Chapter 1: Reasoning About Quantities
  • 1.1: Ways of Thinking About Solving Story Problems
  • 1.2: Quantitative Analysis (8)
  • 1.3: Problem Solving (5)
  • 1.4: Issues for Learning: Ways of Illustrating Story Problems (6)
  • 1.5: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 2: Numeration Systems
  • 2.1: Ways of Expressing Values of Quantities (4)
  • 2.2: Place Value (5)
  • 2.3: Bases Other Than Ten (8)
  • 2.4: Operations in Different Bases (4)
  • 2.5: Issues for Learning: Understanding Place Value
  • 2.6: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 3: Understanding Whole Number Operations
  • 3.1: Ways of Thinking About Addition and Subtraction (3)
  • 3.2: Children's Ways of Adding and Subtracting (3)
  • 3.3: Ways of Thinking About Multiplication (11)
  • 3.4: Ways of Thinking About Division (4)
  • 3.5: Children Find Products and Quotients (1)
  • 3.6: Issues for Learning: Developing Number Sense (2)
  • 3.7: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 4: Some Conventional Ways of Computing
  • 4.1: Operating on Whole Numbers and Decimal Numbers (12)
  • 4.2: Issues for Learning: The Role of Algorithms
  • 4.3: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 5: Using Numbers in Sensible Ways
  • 5.1: Mental Computation (7)
  • 5.2: Computational Estimation (8)
  • 5.3: Estimating Values of Quantities (3)
  • 5.4: Using Scientific Notation for Estimating Values of Very Large and Very Small Quantities (11)
  • 5.5: Issues for Learning: Mental Computation
  • 5.6: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 6: Meanings for Fractions
  • 6.1: Understanding the Meanings of ^a ⁄ _b (15)
  • 6.2: Comparing Fractions (9)
  • 6.3: Equivalent (Equal) Fractions (9)
  • 6.4: Relating Fractions, Decimals, and Percents (18)
  • 6.5: Issues for Learning: Understanding Fractions and Decimals
  • 6.6: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 7: Computing with Fractions
  • 7.1: Adding and Subtracting Fractions (11)
  • 7.2: Multiplying by a Fraction (12)
  • 7.3: Dividing by a Fraction (11)
  • 7.4: Issues for Learning: Teaching Calculation with Fractions (8)
  • 7.5: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 8: Multiplicative Comparisons and Multiplicative Reasoning
  • 8.1: Quantitative Analysis of Multiplicative Situations (4)
  • 8.2: Fractions in Multiplicative Comparisons (16)
  • 8.3: Issues for Learning: Standards for Learning
  • 8.4: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 9: Ratios, Rates, Proportions, and Percents
  • 9.1: Ratio as a Measure (2)
  • 9.2: Comparing Ratios (12)
  • 9.3: Percents in Comparisons and Changes (16)
  • 9.4: Issues for Learning: Developing Proportional Reasoning
  • 9.5: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 10: Integers and Other Number Systems
  • 10.1: Big Ideas About Signed Numbers (6)
  • 10.2: Children's Ways of Reasoning About Signed Numbers (2)
  • 10.3: Other Models for Signed Numbers (2)
  • 10.4: Operations with Signed Numbers (6)
  • 10.5: Multiplying and Dividing Signed Numbers (4)
  • 10.6: Number Systems (3)
  • 10.7: Issues for Learning: Open Number Sentences
  • 10.8: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 11: Number Theory
  • 11.1: Factors and Multiples, Primes and Composites (5)
  • 11.2: Prime Factorization (6)
  • 11.3: Divisibility Tests to Determine Whether a Number is Prime (8)
  • 11.4: Greatest Common Factor, Least Common Multiple (7)
  • 11.5: Issues for Learning: Understanding the Unique Factorization Theorem (1)
  • 11.6: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 12: What Is Algebra?
  • 12.1: Algebraic Reasoning in Elementary School (5)
  • 12.2: Numerical Patterns and Algebra (4)
  • 12.3: Functions and Algebra (8)
  • 12.4: Algebra as Generalized Arithmetic (4)
  • 12.5: Algebraic Reasoning About Quantities (5)
  • 12.6: Issues for Learning: The National Assessment of Educational Progress and Achievement in Algebra
  • 12.7: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 13: A Quantitative Approach to Algebra and Graphing
  • 13.1: Using Graphs and Algebra to Show Quantitative Relationships (4)
  • 13.2: Understanding Slope: Making Connections Across Quantitative Situations, Graphs, and Algebraic Equations (7)
  • 13.3: Linear Functions and Proportional Relationships (5)
  • 13.4: Nonlinear Functions (4)
  • 13.5: Issues for Learning: Algebra in the Elementary Grades
  • 13.6: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 14: Understanding Change: Relationships Among Time, Distance, and Rate
  • 14.1: Distance–Time and Position–Time Graphs (2)
  • 14.2: Using Motion Detectors (1)
  • 14.3: Graphs of Speed Against Time (2)
  • 14.4: Interpreting Graphs (3)
  • 14.5: Issues for Learning: Common Graphing Errors
  • 14.6: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 15: Further Topics in Algebra and Change
  • 15.1: Finding Linear Equations (4)
  • 15.2: Solving Two Linear Equations in Two Variables (3)
  • 15.3: Different Approaches to Problems (2)
  • 15.4: Average Speed and Weighted Averages (1)
  • 15.5: More About Functions (3)
  • 15.6: Issues for Learning: Topics in Algebra (1)
  • 15.7: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 16: Polygons
  • 16.1: Review of Polygon Vocabulary (3)
  • 16.2: Organizing Shapes (2)
  • 16.3: Triangles and Quadrilaterals (2)
  • 16.4: A Focus on Problem-Solving Strategies (2)
  • 16.5: Issues for Learning: Some Research on Two-Dimensional Shapes (1)
  • 16.6: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 17: Polyhedra
  • 17.1: Shoeboxes Have Faces and Nets! (1)
  • 17.2: Introduction to Polyhedra (3)
  • 17.3: Representing and Visualizing Polyhedra (3)
  • 17.4: Congruent Polyhedra (1)
  • 17.5: Some Special Polyhedra (3)
  • 17.6: Issues for Learning: Dealing with 3D Shapes
  • 17.7: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 18: Symmetry
  • 18.1: Symmetry of Shapes in a Plane (3)
  • 18.2: Symmetry of Polyhedra (3)
  • 18.3: Issues for Learning: What Is Geometry in the Pre-K–8 Curriculum?
  • 18.4: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 19: Tessellations
  • 19.1: Tessellating the Plane (2)
  • 19.2: Tessellating Space (3)
  • 19.3: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 20: Similarity
  • 20.1: Similarity and Dilations in Planar Figures (4)
  • 20.2: More About Similar Figures (2)
  • 20.3: Similarity in 3D Figures (4)
  • 20.4: Issues for Learning: Similarity and Proportional Reasoning (1)
  • 20.5: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 21: Curves, Constructions, and Curved Surfaces
  • 21.1: Planar Curves and Constructions (6)
  • 21.2: Curves Surfaces (5)
  • 21.3: Issues for Learning: Standards for Mathematical Practice
  • 21.4: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 22: Transformation Geometry
  • 22.1: Some Types of Rigid Motions (2)
  • 22.2: Finding Images for Rigid Motions (2)
  • 22.3: A Closer Look at Some Rigid Motions (2)
  • 22.4: Composition of Rigid Motions (2)
  • 22.5: Transformations and Earlier Topics (2)
  • 22.6: Issues for Learning: Promoting Visualization in the Curriculum (1)
  • 22.7: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 23: Measurement Basics
  • 23.1: Key Ideas of Measurement (4)
  • 23.2: Length and Angle Size (4)
  • 23.3: Issues for Learning: Measurement of Length and Angle Size
  • 23.4: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 24: Area, Surface Area, and Volume
  • 24.1: Area and Surface Area (4)
  • 24.2: Volume (4)
  • 24.3: Issues for Learning: Measurement of Area and Volume (1)
  • 24.4: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 25: Counting Units Fast: Measurement Formulas
  • 25.1: Circumference, Area, and Surface Area Formulas (5)
  • 25.2: Volume Formulas (5)
  • 25.3: Issues for Learning: What Measurement Topics Are in the Curriculum?
  • 25.4: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 26: Special Topics in Measurement
  • 26.1: The Pythagorean Theorem (4)
  • 26.2: Some Other Kinds of Measurements (4)
  • 26.3: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 27: Quantifying Uncertainty
  • 27.1: Understanding Chance Events (5)
  • 27.2: Methods of Assigning Probabilities (12)
  • 27.3: Simulating Probabilistic Situations (3)
  • 27.4: Issues for Learning: Research on the Understanding of Probability
  • 27.5: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 28: Determining More Complicated Probabilities
  • 28.1: Tree Diagrams and Lists for Multistep Experiments (6)
  • 28.2: Probability of One Event or Another Event (4)
  • 28.3: Probability of One Event and Another Event (4)
  • 28.4: Conditional Probability (4)
  • 28.5: Probability and Problem Solving (1)
  • 28.6: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 29: Introduction to Statistics and Sampling
  • 29.1: What Are Statistics? (3)
  • 29.2: Sampling: The Why and the How (3)
  • 29.3: Simulating Random Sampling (4)
  • 29.4: Types of Data (2)
  • 29.5: Conducting a Survey
  • 29.6: Issues for Learning: Sampling
  • 29.7: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 30: Representing and Interpreting Data with One Variable
  • 30.1: Representing Categorical Data (2)
  • 30.2: Representing and Interpreting Measurement Data (1)
  • 30.3: Examining the Spread of Data (4)
  • 30.4: Measures of Center (2)
  • 30.5: Deviations from the Mean as Measures of Spread (2)
  • 30.6: Examining Distributions (3)
  • 30.7: Issues for Learning: Understanding the Mean (2)
  • 30.8: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 31: Dealing with Multiple Data Sets or with Multiple Variables
  • 31.1: Comparing Data Sets (5)
  • 31.2: Lines of Best Fit and Correlation (3)
  • 31.3: Issues for Learning: More Than One Variable
  • 31.4: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 32: Variability in Samples
  • 32.1: Having Confidence in a Sample Statistic (6)
  • 32.2: Confidence Intervals (4)
  • 32.3: Issues for Learning: What Probability and Statistics Should Be in the Curriculum?
  • 32.4: Check Yourself
  
  
• Chapter 33: Special Topics in Probability
  • 33.1: Expected Value (8)
  • 33.2: Permutations and Combinations (11)
  • 33.3: Issues for Learning: Children Finding Permutations
  • 33.4: Check Yourself
  
  

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Reconceptualizing Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers, 3rd Edition, by Judith Sowder, Larry Sowder, and Susan Nickerson is founded on many years' research and studies of learning processes and mathematics education. Reconceptualizing Mathematics is designed for use in classrooms in which students take an active part in learning mathematics. This team of esteemed authors has written the only textbook of its kind to both incorporate aspects of student-centered learning into lessons and model the teaching that will be expected of their students. To this end, the authors provide worthwhile tasks, activities, and support for facilitating discussions.

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