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- Title: Mathematics and Literature: Educators' Perspectives on Utilizing a Reformative Approach to Bridge Two Cultures (Report)
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 295 KB
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Introduction A fairly consistent, predictable way of teaching mathematics prevails in classrooms throughout the United States. Memorization of facts as well as the ability to follow rules, execute procedures, and plug in formulas is lauded, and only those students capable of absorbing, accumulating, and regurgitating received items of information in this manner excel in traditional mathematics classrooms (Battista 1994; Brandy 1999; Hiebert 2003). The teacher's role in traditional classrooms is to "provide clear, step-by-step demonstrations of each procedure, restate steps in response to student questions, provide adequate opportunities for students to practice the procedures, and offer specific corrective support when necessary," and the ultimate mathematical authority is the textbook from whence "the answers to all mathematical problems are known and found" (Smith 1996, 390-91).