Full Description
This book is about mathematical resilience: what it is, why it is important, how learners can develop it and how teachers can teach in ways that help learners become mathematically resilient. Teaching for mathematical resilience helps mitigate mathematics anxiety, which is often hidden from view as poor behaviour, avoidance and underachievement and can have long-term implications especially for people's employment opportunities and career progression.
Written by a team of expert contributors that specialise in teaching every age of learner from primary school through to adult, the book shows that everyone can progress in mathematics if they have Mathematical Resilience and sets out practical strategies to support learners in developing this important attribute. Chapters cover:
How to measure mathematics anxiety and resilience
Tools for building mathematical resilience
Building a resilient mathematical learning environment
The power of coaching
Working with groups, individuals and support staff
Supporting parents and carers
The world faces huge challenges that involve mathematical thinking, including climate change and economic injustice. This valuable text shows teachers how they can help learners to engage positively with mathematical learning and reach their full potential.
Contents
PART 1 Mathematical resilience
1. Mathematical resilience
Clare Lee and Sue Johnston-Wilder
2. Recognising and measuring mathematics anxiety and resilience
Thomas E. Hunt and Dominic Petronzi
3. Tools for building mathematical resilience
Sue Johnston-Wilder and Clare Lee
PART 2 Teaching for mathematical resilience
4. Building a resilient mathematical learning environment
Robert Ward-Penny and John Thomas
5. Understanding the power of a coaching approach
Debbie Inglis and Sue Johnston-Wilder
6. Working with groups of learners
Robert Ward-Penny
7. Helping individual learners to make mathematics manageable
Janet Kilpatrick Baker
8. Working with groups of support staff
Georgie Ford and Sue Johnston-Wilder
9. Teacher-led mathematical resilience research
Ben Sinclair, Telma Silveira Para, Masha Apostolidu and Aicha Hadji-Sonni
PART 3 Working within the wider community
10. Communicating ideas about mathematical resilience to parents
Rosemary Russell and Donna Wright
11. Working in Further Education and with adult learners
Holly Heshmati and John Morgan
12. Mathematical resilience for lifelong learning
Clare Lee
PART 4 International considerations
13. Mathematics anxiety as a global problem
International Authors
14. Mathematical resilience global developments
International Authors
PART 5 Looking forward
15. Mathematical resilience - What needs to change?
Clare Lee and Sue Johnston-Wilder
16. Resilience-building problem-solving tasks - The future
Gaye Williams
17. Continuing to work for mathematical resilience
Sue Johnston-Wilder and Clare Lee
