Teaching Mathematics to Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners
Finally, a resource that guides teachers to create an engaging and effective mathematics environment that supports culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) learners, including English language learners.\ Drawing on years of extensive research into working with CLD students along with personal experiences as a mathematics teacher and teacher supervisor, Arthur Johnson presents classroom teachers with the strategies, techniques, and practices proven to effectively help CLD learners thrive in...
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Finally, a resource that guides teachers to create an engaging and effective mathematics environment that supports culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) learners, including English language learners. Drawing on years of extensive research into working with CLD students along with personal experiences as a mathematics teacher and teacher supervisor, Arthur Johnson presents classroom teachers with the strategies, techniques, and practices proven to effectively help CLD learners thrive in mathematics classrooms. In this newest book, Johnson explains the important role mathematics plays for CLD learners, provides a foundation for understanding how cultural background affects learning, and offers classroom-tested strategies to help improve mathematics learning. He has filled his book with real teacher experiences, steps you might take to assist each student, examples of surveys, lesson plans, suitable projects, resources in Spanish, multicultural books, and much more to help teachers with CLD learners understand mathematics more effectively. “[T]he thorough examples, the attention to multiculturalism, the just-right length... , and the suggestions for other resources (Web sources, books, topics, etc.)... this [book] has depth and breadth!” –Katie Bell, Spanish kindergarten teacher, Central Elementary School, Longmont, CO “This book is very timely in the face of... the diversity of our school systems. The emphasis on thoughtful mathematics instruction in English to support all learners is brilliant!” –Adrean L. Rivers-Horan, fifth-grade ELA-S teacher,Remington Elementary School, Denver, CO Arthur Johnson is a lifelong mathematics educator who has taught middle and high school as well as at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has written extensively about mathematics at all levels. Johnson is the author of Geometry, Guiding Children’s Learning of Mathematics, Math Matters: Understand the Math You Teach, and Teaching Today’s Mathematics in the Middle Grades.
Table of Contents Preface Chapter 1 Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners xx Growing Diversity in American Student Population The Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Student in mathematics Levels of English Language acquisition Chapter 2 Teaching CLD Students xx The Teacher Makes a Difference Attitude Matters Knowledge of CLD learners and Their Culture Classroom Communication Teaching Strategies and English Acquisition Levels Chapter 3 Organizing for Instruction and Assessment xx The Student as Learner Organizing for Instruction Mathematics Texts and Materials Planning a Lesson for CLD Students Technology Assessment Chapter 4 The Language of Mathematics xx The Vocabulary of Mathematics The Symbolic Language of Mathematics and CLD Learners Alternative Algorithms Chapter 5 Multiculturalism in the Mathematics Classroom xx Multiculturalism Matters Ethnomathematics Multicultural Topics in Mathematics Appendix xx Lesson Plans and Materials for CLD Students Resources in Spanish Resources for Teaching Mathematics to African-American Learners Multicultural Web Sites Interactive Mathematics Sites Multicultural Books with a Mathematics Theme Spanish Language Books with a Mathematics Theme A Bookshelf for Teaching Math to CLD Learners Blackline Masters References
