Teaching Mathematics to Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners » (New Edition)

Arthur Johnson is a life-long mathematics educator who has taught at the middle and high school grades, as well as undergraduate and graduate levels. He has written extensively about mathematics at all levels K-14. Johnson is the author of Geometry (Prentice Hall), Guiding Children’s Learning of Mathematics (Wadsworth), Math Matters: Understand the Math You Teach (Marilyn Burns Publications), and Teaching Today’s Mathematics in the Middle Grades (Allyn & Bacon).

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