Teaching mathematics as storytelling / / Rina Zazkis, Peter Liljedahl.

This book presents storytelling in mathematics as a medium for creating a classroom in which mathematics is appreciated, understood, and enjoyed. The authors demonstrate how students’ mathematical activity can be engaged via storytelling. Readers are introduced to many mathematical stories of differ...

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Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam : : Sense Publishers,, [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • A story
  • What makes a story
  • Storytelling
  • Stories that set a frame or a background
  • Stories that accompany and stories that intertwine
  • Stories that introduce
  • Stories that explain
  • Stories that Ask a question
  • Stories that tell a joke
  • Creating a story
  • Stories of a teacher and his students
  • Using existing stories
  • References.