Vol. 30 No. 1 (2021)
Articles

Review of Mathematical Understanding for Secondary Teaching: A Framework and Classroom-Based Situations by Heid, Wilson, & Blue (2015)

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  • Bridget Kinsella Druken
Bridget Kinsella Druken
California State University, Fullerton

Published 2021-08-17

Keywords

  • book review,
  • mathematics education

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Abstract

Imagine a high school mathematics teacher looking for big mathematical ideas while planning their secondary mathematics lessons. They might come across questions like the following and wonder how they might best respond to support their student’s learning: Why is it that when you multiply two negative numbers together, you get a positive number answer? How can we think about measures of center using box plots? Why is a number raised to the zero power 1 and not 0, and, what is 0 raised to the 0 power? This review of Mathematical Understanding for Secondary Teaching: A Framework and Classroom-Based Situations by Heid, Wilson, and Blume (2015) addresses how to go about responding.

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