Transdisciplinarity in Mathematics Education [electronic resource] : Blurring Disciplinary Boundaries /
Jao, Limin.editor.
Radakovic, Nenad.editor.
The book explores various facets of transdisciplinarity in mathematics education and its importance for research and practice. The book comprehensively outlines the ways that mathematics interacts with different disciplines, world views, and contexts; these topics include: mathematics and the humanities, the complex nature of mathematics education, mathematics education and social contexts, and more. It is an invaluable resource for mathematics education students, researchers, and practitioners seeking to incorporate transdisciplinarity into their own practice.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Part I. Interdisciplinary Approaches in Mathematics Education -- Chapter 1.Euclidean Exploration of Geometry in Islamic Art -- Chapter 2.The Hidden Musicality of Math Class:A Transdisciplinary Approach to Mathematics Education -- Chapter 3. Using Children’s Literature to Enhance Math Instruction in K-8 Classrooms -- Section 2: Complexity, Difference and/in Mathematics Education -- Chapter 4. Complexity as a Discourse on School Mathematics Reform -- Chapter 5. Opening a Space of/for Curriculum: The Learning Garden as Context and Content for Difference in Mathematics Education -- Part 3. Mathematics for the Common Good -- chapter 6. Transdisciplinarity, Critical Mathematics Education, Eco-Justice, and the Politics to Come -- Chapter 7.Using a Mathematics Cultural Resonance Approach for Building Capacity in the Mathematical Sciences for African American Communities -- Chapter 8. Still Warring After All These Years: Obstacles to a Transdisciplinary Resolution of the Math Wars -- Part IV. Indigenous and Transformational Mathematical Knowledge -- Chapter 9. Echoed Rememberings: Considering Mathematics and Science as Reconciliation -- Chapter 10. Gendered? Gender-neutral? Views of Gender and Mathematics Held by the Canadian General Public -- Part V. Re-formulating, Re-presenting, and Re-defining Mathematical Knowledge and the Curricula -- Chapter 11. Borrow, Trade, Regroup, or Unpack? Revealing How Instructional Metaphors Portray Base-ten Number -- Chapter 12.Mathematics and Movement -- Chapter 13. Examining the Development of a Transdisciplinary Collaboration.
The book explores various facets of transdisciplinarity in mathematics education and its importance for research and practice. The book comprehensively outlines the ways that mathematics interacts with different disciplines, world views, and contexts; these topics include: mathematics and the humanities, the complex nature of mathematics education, mathematics education and social contexts, and more. It is an invaluable resource for mathematics education students, researchers, and practitioners seeking to incorporate transdisciplinarity into their own practice.
Mathematics.
Mathematics Education.
Learning & Instruction.