基本説明
Covers all national and international aspects of mathematics education; featuring more than 400 entries arranged alphabetically; and covers primary, secondary and higher education levels.
Full Description
This single-volume reference is designed for readers and researchers investigating national and international aspects of mathematics education at the elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels. It contains more than 400 entries, arranged alphabetically by headings of greatest pertinence to mathematics education. The scope is comprehensive, encompassing all major areas of mathematics education, including assessment, content and instructional procedures, curriculum, enrichment, international comparisons, and psychology of learning and instruction.
Contents
I. Applications Acturial mathematics; applications for the classroom; overview; economics; environmental mathematics; health; modeling; numerical analysis; operations research; population growth; sports. II. Assessment Assessment of student achievement; overview; evaluation of instruction; overview; National Assessment of Educational Progress. III. Content and Instructional Procedures Abstract algebra; addition; algebraic numbers; algorithms; arithmetic; axioms; calculus; overview; continuity; data representation; decimal system; inequalities; inverse functions; mathematics; foundations; mathematics, nature of; number sense and numeration; number theory, overview; probability in elementary school mathematics; statistics, overview. IV. Curriculum Addition; curriculum trends; secondary level; discrete mathematics; integration of elementary school mathematics instruction with other subjects; standards, curriculum. V. Enrichment Art; enrichment, overview; family math; games; projects for students; recreations, overview. VI. Governmental Role Federal governement, role of; mathematics education; statistical indicators of; state government, role. VII. History of Mathematics History of mathematics, overview; Abel, Archimedes, Bernouilli Family, etc; African customs applied to the mathematics classroom, Babylonian mathematics, Islam, etc. VIII. Issues Assessment of student achievement, issues; basic skills; developmental (remedial) mathematics; ethnomathematics; evaluation of instruction, issues; gifted, special programs for; learning disabilities, overview; mathematics, philosophical issues; mathematics anxiety; minorities, educational problems
