Making Math Learning Fun for Inner City School Students

Glendolyn Duhon-Jeanlouis; Alice Duhon-Ross McCallum; Ashraf Esmail

doi:10.5771/9780761853183

Summary

Making Math Learning Fun for Inner City School Students is an effective tool for educators and a textbook for professors of higher education. The concepts discussed in the book provide a body of knowledge that will enable leaders to understand the critical issues surrounding inner city school students in their ability to learn mathematical concepts. Research shows that three to five teachers of mathematics leave the school system within the first two years of teaching because of frustration experienced while helping inner city school students comprehend and master mathematical skills. Students are often discouraged by inappropriate teaching strategies that favor learning math concepts in isolation, rather than making them relevant to daily life or cultural experiences. Teachers of math must clearly understand inner city school students' learning styles when they are implementing a process for the student to learn. Classroom teachers in the twenty-first century must have valid knowledge of how the brains of inner city school children work. For students to master and comprehend math skills, learning activities must be both fun and relevant to their present body of knowledge about life and living.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7618-5317-6
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7618-5318-3
Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 72
Product type: Edited Book

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Series Foreword No access
3. References No access
4. Foreword No access
5. Preface No access
6. Acknowledgments No access
1. Multiplication No access
2. Problem Solving Strategies No access
3. Different Ways of Checking for Understanding No access
4. Personalized Word Problems No access
5. 1. Line Graphs: Charting the Weather No access
  2. Grade Graphing No access
  3. Bar Graphs No access
  4. M&M® Graphs No access
  5. Class Test Scores Graphs No access
  6. Circle Graphs No access
6. Measurement No access
7. 1. Reducing Fractions No access
  2. Fraction Matches No access
  3. Adding and Subtracting Like Fractions No access
  4. Adding and Subtracting Unlike Fractions No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. References No access
1. References No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Literature Review No access
3. 1. Findings No access
  2. Factors Influencing Student Learning Outcomes No access
4. 1. Setting the Stage for the Course No access
  2. Course Lecture Procedures No access
5. Instructor's Disposition, Attitude, and Behavior No access
6. Classroom Physical Environment No access
7. 1. Student Characteristics No access
  2. Instructor Characteristics No access
  3. Other Course Features No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. References No access
1. References No access
1. Do Any of these Situations Sound Familiar No access
2. How Parents Can Help with Homework No access
3. Why is it Important For My Child to Learn Math No access
4. How Will My Child Learn Math? No access
5. 1. Make Math Part of Your Child's Day No access
  2. Encourage Your Child to Give Explanations No access
6. Teaching Math to Young Children No access
7. Foundations No access
8. Why is it Important For My Child To Learn Math No access
9. 1. How Will My Child Learn Math? No access
10. 1. Be Positive About Math! No access
  2. Make Math Part of your Child's Day No access
  3. Encourage Your Child to Give Explanations No access
11. 1. 1. Understanding Numbers No access
  2. 2. Understanding Measurements No access
  3. 3. Understanding Geometry No access
  4. 4. Understanding Patterns No access
  5. 5. Understanding and Managing Data No access
12. 1. Your Child's Teacher No access
  2. Others who can Help No access
13. References No access
Index No access Pages 67 - 68
Editors No access Pages 69 - 70
Contributors No access Pages 71 - 72