Learning and Teaching Real World Problem Solving in School Mathematics
The ultimate aim of this book is to identify the conceptual tools and the instructional modalities which enable students and teachers to cross the boundary between school mathematics and real world problem solving. The book identifies, examines, and integ
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Learning and Teaching Real World Problem Solving in School Mathematics A Multiple-Perspective Framework for Crossing the Boundary
Learning and Teaching Real World Problem Solving in School Mathematics
Murad Jurdak
Learning and Teaching Real World Problem Solving in School Mathematics A Multiple-Perspective Framework for Crossing the Boundary
Murad Jurdak American University of Beirut Beirut, Lebanon
ISBN 978-3-319-08203-5 ISBN 978-3-319-08204-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-08204-2
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To my grandchildren Sophie and Marc for having given me the hope and strength to pursue this book
Preface
Learning and Teaching Real world Problem Solving in School Mathematics: A Multiple-Perspective Framework for Crossing the Boundary is, to a considerable extent, a response to the widening divide between mathematics as practiced in schools and mathematics as enacted in social and workplace practices. School mathematics is generally viewed as a series of academic hurdles that students need to overcome in order to move up to the next level, whereas in the real world outside the school, whether in the course of daily life or in the workplace, individuals encounter situations in which they are called upon to deal with mathematical processes that are “black-boxed,” i.e., hidden in automated machines or other symbolic systems. However, decoding, interpreting, and using the black-boxed mathematics in social and workplace contexts are complex processes that involve problem solving. In this context, school mathematics and real world problem solving seem to be becoming increasingly two disconnected social worlds separated by a growing thick, nonporous boundary. The thesis of this book is that th
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