Language for Learning Mathematics: Assessment for Learning in Practice

by Clare Lee

Assessment for learning is a powerful way to raise standards and improve learning. However, as this book shows, effective assessment for learning in the mathematics classroom depends on pupils being able and willing to use mathematical language to express their ideas. When discussion, negotiation and explanation are encouraged, teachers use assessment for learning creatively, the work quickly becomes more challenging and the pupils come to see themselves...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0335219888
• ISBN13: 9780335219889
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Open University Press
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"