mathematics teachers

Provides a braided model of problem solving, weaving together cognition, language, and mathematics and forming a basis of math activities for use by elementary teachers.

Examines the life and career of innovative math teacher Jaime Escalante, discussing his childhood in Bolivia, his education, his move to California, and the unique teaching techniques that made him an inspiration to his students.

Provides descriptions and discussion of the practices and issues of professional development for mathematics and science educators, examining the thinking of designers, and illuminating their purposes, strategies, triumphs, and failures.

Ramchandra, a math teacher in Kathmandu, gains insights into himself and his wife when he begins an ill-fated affair with a beautiful, impoverished young woman he is tutoring.

The story of the Bolivian-born teacher who immigrated to the United States where he has become successful in motivating his students to excel in science and math.

When Peyton Newlin, a 13-year-old math genius disappears, math teacher Bonnie Pinkwater begins to investigate. One by one, Peyton's competitors turn up dead and Bonnie suspects the young math whiz may have something to do with it. But when Peyton also is murdered, Bonnie's sleuthing reveals a coven of witches, a violent skinhead, an abusive father, an amorous science teacher and a medieval mathematics manuscript that has been mistranslated.

Presents twenty-six units for use in intermediate and middle school classrooms that show how to use literature to teach the math concepts of geometry, measurement, computation and estimation, statistics, algebra, patterns, and functions, and number relationships, systems, and theory.