Peter, Kathy, & Wes:
1. Textbooks versus reference books
2. Textbooks can be collaboration between artist and teacher who collects a number of works that are compiled and put together into a textbook for the course.
3. Needs a pedagogical aim.
PROPOSED DEFINITION: collaboration between artists and a teacher. The teacher might be the one to insert the pedagogical aim.Typically, though, the author(s) assign the pedagogical aim.
Textbooks might tend toward de-skilling if they are comprehensive in designing the text for a particular aim.
Addressivity (Joan, Barbara, Lucie ):
1. Books with rich mathematical content could be made into a text if ...
2. Just as one can disrupt the canonical text, that becomes a different invitation.
3. Author's intention for a canonical textbook:
a. make money
b. share their ideas about explaining, helping people learn, that they believe would benefit teachers and students
POWER OF GENRE: takes on cultural life of its own, molds peoples' intentions to conform to the needs of the genre. However a textbook writes in the textbook genre, pushing the boundaries, etc., the genre itself has a formatting power, the intentions encoded in the genre in a way take over and overpower the authors' intentions.
Textbooks are simultaneously constraining & enabling for teachers.
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Online mathematics learning links
Some Pinterest Boards:
Mathematics
Algebra
Word Problems
Kahn Academy
More Vi Hart
Penn & Teller Draw a Really Long Line
Allen Knutson, Cornell professor of mathematics and former world record-holding juggler, mathematics of siteswaps
Robert Ash, Professor Emeritus, Univ. of Illinois, has eight textbooks online
Author Paul Chika Emekwulu (The Dreaming Mathematician)'s Blogs are found at the bottom of his Linked-in Page.
NCTM Illuminations website.
Henrico County, VA Algebra 2 Online
Calculus I in 20 minutes (video)
Friday, May 18, 2012
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| Reissued by NCTM in 1995 |
(Students here are creating their own textbook - as the ostensible main project of the classroom curriculum.)
The original book: http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED096174.pdf
A comment: http://www.cut-the-knot.org/ctk/NatureOfProof.shtml
A review of it: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3028523?uid=3739864&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=21100811633841
In today's classroom - one view: http://www.math.umt.edu/tmme/vol1no2/TMMEv1n2brev2.pdf
Joe Bellacero & Tome Murray, "Students write tabloid tabulations in math gossip magazine" (national writing project)
Alternatives to a "traditional" textbook genre? Story-telling didactic "texts"
Number Stories and Storytelling
David Eugene Smith's Number Stories of Long Ago (1919)Hans Magnus Enzensburger's Number Devil
Freudenthal Institute and story paths: http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=12519&page=175
Ron Eglash's page on African Fractals
Puzzles and "recreational mathematics"
Sam Loyd's Cycopedia of PuzzlesDavid Suzuki's video tribute to Martin Gardiner
"Coloring Books" that foster investigations:
Excerpt from Herb Kohl & Winky Adam, Insides, Outsides, Loops and Linesclick for excerpt
Literature as Classroom text(book)?
Pat Hutchins, Clocks and More Clocks
Anno's Magic Seeds
Rod Clement's Counting on Frank
Denis Guedj's The Parrot's Theorem
Sarah Flannery's autobiography, In Code: A Mathematical Journey
Passover Haggadah as Ur-Text
Alan Block, "Even if we were all scholars: The teacher's authority"Landscapes, Soundscapes, ...
Marta Civil, unearthing the mathematics of a classroom garden (working paper on-line, later published in another form as Kahn, L. & Civil, M. (2001). Unearthing the mathematics of a classroom garden. In E. McIntyre, A. Rosebery, & N. González (Eds.) Classroom Diversity: Connecting School to Students' Lives (pp. 37-50). Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.)
Breaking away from the math book (Pat Bagget & Andrzej Ehrenfeuch)
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