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Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners

Preparing Pre-service and In-service Teachers

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Editors:
  1. Luciana C. de Oliveira

    1. School of Education, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA

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  2. Marta Civil

    1. Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

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  • Offers strategies for teaching secondary mathematics to English language learners
  • Addresses the increasing ELL population in schools in English-speaking countries around the world
  • Represents the fourth and final volume of a set of books on teaching content areas to ELLs

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction

    • Luciana C. de Oliveira, Marta Civil
    Pages 1-8

  3. Preparing Mathematics Preservice Teachers for Teaching Emergent Bilinguals Through Concurrent Intervention

    • Ji Yeong I, Jiaqi Yu
    Pages 9-26

  4. Redesigning a Statistics Literacy Course to Help Prepare Pre-service Teachers to Teach (Statistics to) English Language Learners

    • Lawrence M. Lesser
    Pages 27-46

  5. Designing Professional Development to Support Teachers’ Productive Beliefs, Knowledge, and Practices for Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners

    • Maria I. Ruiz, Melissa A. Gallagher
    Pages 47-71

  6. Improving Algebra Teachers’ Ability to Factor in Language: Complementary Expertise in Action

    • Alandeom W. Oliveira, Carla Meskill, Sepideh Yasrebi
    Pages 73-92

  7. Exploring Professional Development Utilizing Questioning and Effective Mathematics Instruction for Multilingual Students

    • Sarah A. Roberts
    Pages 93-121

  8. Engaging ELLs in Mathematics Learning Through Meaning-Making Activities

    • Gretchen P. Oliver, Karen M. Gregory
    Pages 123-141

  9. Functional Language Awareness in Secondary Mathematics Classrooms

    • Holly Hansen-Thomas, Juliet Langman
    Pages 143-159

  10. Promoting Bilingual Mathematical Practices in a Classroom Through Modeling, Roller Coasters, and Discourse

    • Angela R. Thompson, Michelle Hale, Alexander Radosavljevic
    Pages 161-181

  11. What Informs Their Practice? Reflections on In-Service Teacher Education and Prior Experiences for the Teaching of Mathematics to ELLs

    • Amanda E. Lowry, Melinda Eichhorn
    Pages 183-204

  12. Shifting the Mathematics Learning Culture for ELL Students at “The Most Diverse High School in the United States”

    • Susan Holloway, Gerardo De La Garza
    Pages 205-222

  13. Feedback and Assessment for Emerging Bilinguals in Secondary Mathematics: A Case Study of Written Feedback

    • Rachel S. G. Bower, Vanessa Z. Mari
    Pages 223-239

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 241-245
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About this book

This edited book is about preparing pre-service and in-service teachers to teach secondary-level mathematics to English Language Learners (ELLs) in twenty-first century classrooms. Chapter topics are grounded in both research and practice, addressing a range of timely topics including the current state of ELL education in the secondary mathematics classroom, approaches to leveraging the talents and strengths of bilingual students in heterogeneous classrooms, best practices in teaching mathematics to multilingual students, and ways to infuse the secondary mathematics teacher preparation curriculum with ELL pedagogy. This book will appeal to all teachers of ELLs, teacher educators and researchers of language acquisition more broadly. This volume is part of a set of four edited books focused on teaching the key content areas to English language learners. The other books in the set focus on teaching History and Social Studies, English Language Arts, and Science to ELLs. 

Reviews

“A most timely book that draws on the latest research to prepare mathematics teachers to work with emerging bilingual students. The book provides a fascinating set of examples that illustrate how teachers can design teaching spaces that draw on the entire linguistic repertoire of emerging bilingual students, engage them in rigorous mathematics, and develop their evolving language. A key resource to all stakeholders who work with current and future mathematics teachers.” (Anthony Fernandes, University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA)

“This timely volume provides principles for how mathematics teacher educators can support pre- and in-service teachers in learning to teach mathematics to English Learners. The chapters illustrate multiple approaches to help secondary teachers develop productive beliefs, engage ELs in mathematical practices, and provide ELs with opportunities to learn important mathematics with understanding. The studies show that teachers can teach mathematics while also paying attention to language, an essential component for addressing equity issues for ELs in secondary mathematics classrooms.” (Judit Moschkovich, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)

“Establishing language and culture as assets, the authors brilliantly combine areas of expertise in mathematics education and ELLs to prepare secondary mathematics pre-service and in-service teachers to support ELLs in engaging with cognitively demanding tasks. Rarely do teacher educators and instructional leaders have access to resources that provide research-based practices at the secondary level, and this book does exactly that.” (Sylvia Celedón-Pattichis, University of New Mexico, USA)

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Education, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA

    Luciana C. de Oliveira

  • Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

    Marta Civil

About the editors

Luciana C. de Oliveira is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning in the School of Education at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA.


Marta Civil is Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Arizona, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners

  • Book Subtitle: Preparing Pre-service and In-service Teachers

  • Editors: Luciana C. de Oliveira, Marta Civil

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48355-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48354-8Published: 10 October 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48357-9Published: 11 October 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48355-5Published: 09 October 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 245

  • Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Mathematics Education, Linguistics, general, Language Education, Education, general, Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences

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