- Paperback: 172 pages
- Publisher: African American Images (Sep 1 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0913543977
- ISBN-13: 978-0913543979
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 14 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,687,970 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Intended for parents and teachers of African American students, this book provides strategies for correcting the racial achievement gap in upper-grade mathematics. Advice is provided on instilling confidence in African American students and on teaching math in a less sterile and theoretical way. Also explored is how critical thinking skills are essential in understanding math. A wealth of ideas is provided on creating relevant word problems to help students better understand basic math functions.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
math book,
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This review is from: How to Teach Math to Black Students (Paperback)
this is a great book.We use it in our tutoring program.Everyone concerned about Black children should read it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews) 10 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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Essential,
By T. Flood-Coleman "wisdom" - Published on Amazon.com
Teaching middle school mathematics to inner city students is what I do on a daily basis. This book changed my approach and made a world of a difference in the performance of my students. It changed my perception of reality of unequal access to education in America for most poor African Americans. There is a completely different way that a student looks at the world when he or she may not have had a decent dinner the night prior to coming to school. There are a laundry list of socioeconomic issues that make it almost crucial to approach the teaching of mathematics to most African American students differently. Different motivations for learning is the key to this understanding the author's point of view. This understanding can be applied for success in teaching every subject. Changing a student's motivation by using things that are unique to his or her ethnic group as motivation does not constitute racism or advocate the teaching of it - it's common sense!
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Great buy,
By Rosemarie Dawkins - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: How to Teach Math to Black Students (Paperback)
My students struggle with math. I've tried a few techniques to increase their confidence level but I have seen little results. After reading this book, I, myself am more confident in how to approach my students and by using the techniques in this book I'm sure our math 'experience' will be much better...
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wasted time,
By Mikhail Balachov - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: How to Teach Math to Black Students (Paperback)
The book combines questionable statements (Al Kharizmi is a black mathematician),wrong statements ("mathematics is prevalent in almost all careers and professions"), and mostly trivial statements ("teachers must ...extinguish all negative verbal communications and interactions with the students"). Also you can find there derogatory generalizations about students ("youth occupy most of their free time watching television, listening to music,playing sports and games, or eating")and teachers ("Educators are producing robots as opposed to thinkers").Some advices suggested by the author are really funny,like the advice to college instructors to"have students develop songs, poems, sories, cartoons or rhymes on some math concept, pricipal,or skill"). What I couldn't find in the book is the answer for the title question.
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