This new and updated second edition of Debates in Mathematics Education explores the major issues that mathematics teachers encounter in their daily lives. By engaging with established and contemporary debates, this volume promotes and supports critical reflection and aims to stimulate both novice and experienced teachers to reach informed judgements and argue their point of view with deeper theoretical knowledge and understanding.
Divided into five accessible sections, this book investigates and offers fresh insight into topics of central importance in mathematics education, with this second edition including new discussions and chapters on:
Classic and contemporary issues of pedagogy, politics, philosophy and sociology of mathematics education
International comparisons of achievement
Digital technologies for teaching
Mastery in mathematics
Pop culture and mathematics
Whether mathematics can be harmful
Designed to stimulate discussion and support you in your own research, writing and practice through suggested questions and activities throughout, Debates in Mathematics Education will be a valuable resource for any student or practising teacher, and those engaged in initial teacher education, continuing professional development or Master's level study. This book also has much to offer to those leading mathematics departments in schools and initial teacher education programmes, and to beginning doctoral students looking for a survey of the field of mathematics education research.
List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction to the series Introduction to the volume Preface: Welcome to the second edition of Debates in Mathematics Education Acknowledgements SECTION ONE: DEBATES ABOUT INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS Learning About Mathematics Teaching From Other Countries Dylan Wiliam Mathematics Education In Translation: Mastery, Policy and Evidence Mark Boylan SECTION TWO: DEBATES ABOUT SOCIAL JUSTICE The Dark Side of Mathematics: Damaging Effects Of The Overvaluation Of Mathematics Paul Ernest School Mathematics As Social Classification Peter Gates and Andy Noyes Ability Thinking Mark Boylan and Hilary Povey Pedagogical Possibilities For All Attainment Teaching Hilary Povey Should ‘Teaching For Understanding’ Be The Pinnacle Of Mathematics Education? Anna Llewellyn Mathematics, Gender And Normativity Mark McCormack and Luis E. Morales The Financial Crisis, Popular Culture And Maths Education Heather Mendick SECTION THREE: DEBATES ABOUT CLASSROOM MATTERS Planning For The Unexpected: Working Within Symbolically Structured Environments Alf Coles and Nathalie Sinclair Effective Questioning And Responding In The Mathematics Classroom John Mason Debates In Task Design Anne Watson Fake News, Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Divisions, Likely Futures? Debates On Digital Technologies In Mathematics Education Keith Jones Mental Maths: Just About What We Do In Our Heads? Gwen Ineson and Sunita Babbar The Role Of Examples In Mathematics Teaching Tim Rowland SECTION FOUR: DEBATES ABOUT MATHEMATICS TEACHING AND SOCIAL CONTENT Mathematics And Politics? Climate Change In The Mathematics Classroom Richard Barwell Mathematical Literacy: What Is It? And Is It Important? Hamsa Venkat History Of Mathematics In And For The Curriculum Leo Rogers SECTION FIVE: DEBATES ABOUT ASSESSMENT Formative Assessment In Mathematics Education: Key Debates Alison Barnes & Rachel Marks The Fitness And Impact Of GCSE Mathematics Examinations Ian Jones Choosing The Future: Which Mathematics? Cathy Smith
Gwen Ineson is a senior lecturer in Mathematics Education at Brunel University London, UK, where she is director of postgraduate research and responsible for the primary mathematics programme. Hilary Povey is Professor Emerita in Mathematics Education at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, where she is engaged in research, professional writing and curriculum development.
