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Teaching Mathematics for Understanding to Bilingual Students

When children's own strategies for solving mathematical problems are not connected to the way mathematics is taught in school, students fail to make sense of mathematics instruction and begin to "fail." This chapter adopts the position that student understanding of worthwhile mathematical content is the essential goal of mathematics education, and that everything else--curriculum, instruction, and assessment--is a means to that end.

• Author/Creator: Secada, Walter G., De La Cruz, Yolanda
• Date Published: 00-00
• Year: 1996

This resource is cataloged under:

• Network/channel: NCCRESt: People: Students
• Subject: Discussion (Teaching Technique)
• Subject: Mathematics Instruction
• Subject: Protocol Analysis
• Subject: Teaching Methods

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