Learning to Love Math Teaching Strategies That Change Student Attitudes and Get Results

A book that explains how negative attitudes toward math get established in the brain and what teachers can do to turn those attitudes around. Includes more than 50 strategies (suitable for any grade level) that give students a math attitude makeover, reduce mistake anxiety, and relate math to studen...

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Main Author: Willis, Judy
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Alexandria Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development 2010
ASCD
Edition:1
Subjects:
Brain
Computation
Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Humor
Intervention
Long Term Memory
Mathematical Concepts
Mathematics
Mathematics Anxiety
Multisensory Learning
Negative Attitudes
Psychological aspects
Relaxation Training
Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)
Story Telling
Stress Management
Student Attitudes
Student Educational Objectives
Student Interests
Student Motivation
Study and teaching
Teacher Student Relationship
Teaching Methods
Visual Aids
ISBN:9781416610366, 1416610367
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Reversing Math Negativity with an Attitude Makeover -- Chapter 2: Understanding and Planning Achievable Challenge -- Chapter 3: Examples of Differentiated Planning for Achievable Challenge -- Chapter 4: Reducing Mistake Anxiety -- Chapter 5: Change Your Intelligence? Yes, You Can! -- Chapter 6: Motivating All of Your Students -- Chapter 7: Bringing the Real World to the Math Classroom -- Chapter 8: Creating Student Goals for Motivation -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Internet Resources -- Appendix B: Brain Owner's Manual -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- About the Author -- Related ASCD Resources