"A major goal of the ... science education reform effort [is] that students make sense of the natural and designed world by engaging in science and engineering practices ... [This book offers] ways to talk about and organize instruction to meet ... [this goal] ... The contributors include science education researchers and teachers who have explored these ideas in their own classrooms"--pages 4-5.
Offers advice and examples designed to help middle school math teachers conform to the NCTM's Process Standards when instructing students in grades six through eight on how to explore their reasoning and support their mathematical thinking.
Examines logic as the basis of knowledge about the world, using historical vignettes and personal stories to look at the three types of logic, including classical, infinity, and plausible reasoning.
Presents two books of mathematical puzzles by "Alice In Wonderland" author Lewis Carroll: "Pillow Problems, " containing seventy-two stumpers, and "A Tangled Tale, " which weaves its puzzles into a ten-chapter story. Includes answers.
