Unexpected lists that propel your teaching into refreshingly new directions!
Mathematics teachers will find new ways to think about what is happening in their classrooms. The lists can be used for personal reflection, prompts for teacher lounge chats, teacher study groups, fodder for professonal development workshops, or even as the skeleton for a university course on mathematics education at any level. Lists range from lesson planning and assessment strategies to ideas to change the world.
Acknowledgment
About the Author
Introduction: How to Read This Book A List of Reading Approaches
Teacher List Circles
Leave It Lying Around
Choose Your Own Adventure
Re-gift the Gift That Keeps on Giving
University Syllabus
One More List of Advice
1 Mathematical Activity Lists
Alan Bishops Six Mathematical Activities
Tamsin Meaneys List of Bishops Six Activities
David Kirshners Three Types of Activity
2 Assessment Lists
Alice Pitt Assessment Categories
Susan Ohanians Ten Foundational Questions
Jo Boalers Five Elements of Effective Struggle
3 Hannah Arendt Lists
Hannah Arendts Three Kinds of Activity
Hannah Arendts Four Strategies for Unlearning
4 Math Joke Lists
Top Dozen Silly Math Jokes
Common Homophones for Creating Math Jokes
Polysemous Words with Special Mathematics Meanings
5 Math as Art Lists
Josiah McElhenys Three Ways to Use Models
Susan Sontags Alternatives to Representation
Sianne Ngai and the Aesthetics of Students Contributions
Art Projects for Math Classes
6 Political & Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Lists
Gloria Ladson-Billings Six Habits of Highly Effective Teachers
Celebrating the Mathematical Brilliance of Multilingual Learners
Levels of Democratic Mathematics
Post-Colonial Mathematics Levels
Anti-Racist Mathematics
7 PlayBook Lists
Problem Solving & Posing Lists
Georg Pólyas How to Solve It
John Mason, Kaye Stacey & Leone Burtons Thinking Mathematically
Stephen I. Brown & Marion Walters Art of Problem Posing
Meaningful Communication Lists
Concept-Based Lesson Genres
Promoting a Thinking Classroom
Five Dimensions of TRU-ly Powerful Classrooms
Peters Practical Critical Thinking Strategies
Five Days of Better Question-Asking
Worksheet Options
Storytelling & Literature Lists
Daniels-Type Literature Circle Roles
Storytelling Techniques for Math Teachers
Three-Act Mathematics
8 More Than Human Mathematics Lists
Neo-SAMBA School Math
Seven Ways Math Can Save the World
9 Excellence & Flourishing Lists
Lists of Virtues
Aristotles Virtues
Theoretical & Practical Virtues
Virtues Inspired by Judith Butler
Afrofuturist Virtues
Shopping Lists
What Every Mathematics Classroom Never Knew It Needed
First Aid Supplies for the Math Teachers Body & Spirit
A Short List of Mathematical Games You Might Have Overlooked
10 List of Last Thoughts
References
Index of Mathematical Topics
Index of Names
Peter Appelbaum is Professor and Director of Education Studies and Curriculum Studies Programs at Arcadia University and has over 40 years of experience in innovative math teaching in and out of schools. Among his numerous books and articles is Embracing Mathematics: On Becoming a Teacher and Changing with Mathematics (Routledge, 2008).
