Mathematical Thinking: How to Develop It in the Classroom by Masami Isoda
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Hatsumon is a Japanese word for "posing a problem”. Teachers know that the way in which the problem is posed influences students' learning significantly. A teachers' considered hatsumon will orient a students' thinking so that the answer and learning appears to the student to be from within ̶ a discovery ̶ as compared to a more occidental approach of a step-by-step recipe intended to funnel the student toward a solution that becomes understanding after practice. The authors here offer a two-part work composed of first a largely high level view of this approach that is buttressed with a final part of low-level, detailed classroom examples.
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