Math Education for Gifted Students

Math Education for Gifted Students
Author: Susan K. Johnsen
Publisher: PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2005
Genre: Gifted children
ISBN: 1593631669

For the first time, the "Gifted Child Today Reader" series brings together the best articles published in "Gifted Child Today", the nation's most popular gifted education journal. Each book in the series is filled with exciting and practical classroom ideas, useful summaries of research findings, discussions of identification and classroom management, and informed opinions about educating gifted kids. Anyone involved in education will benefit from the practical, research-based ideas this unique series has to offer. Given gifted students' accelerated and intuitive thought processes regarding mathematics, teachers need to design differentiated curricula and use strategies that increase the complexity and pace of instruction. The authors provide some specific strategies for both organizing a gifted program and teaching mathematically gifted students in either the general education classroom or in special settings. "Math Education for Gifted Students" offers information about how to differentiate for mathematically gifted students, as well as tried-and-true instructional strategies to employ, including tiered lessons, distance learning, and activities combining architecture and math.

Research On and Activities For Mathematically Gifted Students

Research On and Activities For Mathematically Gifted Students
Author: Florence Mihaela Singer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2016-06-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319394509

This open access Topical Survey offers a brief overview of the current state of research on and activities for mathematically gifted students around the world. This is of interest to a broad readership, including educational researchers, research mathematicians, mathematics teachers, teacher educators, curriculum designers, doctoral students, and other stakeholders. It first discusses research concerning the nature of mathematical giftedness, including theoretical frameworks and methodologies that are helpful in identifying and/or creating mathematically gifted students, which is described in this section. It also focuses on research on and the development of mathematical talent and innovation in students, including connections between cognitive, social and affective aspects of mathematically gifted students. Exemplary teaching and learning practices, curricula and a variety of programs that contribute to the development of mathematical talent, gifts, and passion are described as well as the pedagogy and mathematics content suitable for educating pre-service and in-service teachers of mathematically gifted students. The final section provides a brief summary of the paper along with suggestions for the research, activities, and resources that should be available to support mathematically gifted students and their teachers, parents, and other stakeholders.

Creativity in Mathematics and the Education of Gifted Students

Creativity in Mathematics and the Education of Gifted Students
Author: Roza Leikin
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9087909357

This book breaks through in the field of mathematical creativity and giftedness. It suggests directions for closing the gap between research in the field of mathematics education and research in the field of creativity and giftedness. It also outlines a research agenda for further research and development in the field.

Developing Math Talent

Developing Math Talent
Author: Susan G. Assouline
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2021-09-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000491609

Build student success in math with the only comprehensive guide for developing math talent among advanced learners. The authors, nationally recognized math education experts, offer a focused look at educating gifted and talented students for success in math. More than just a guidebook for educators, this book offers a comprehensive approach to mathematics education for gifted students of elementary or middle school age. The authors provide concrete suggestions for identifying mathematically talented students, tools for instructional planning, and specific programming approaches. Developing Math Talent features topics such as strategies for identifying mathematically gifted learners, strategies for advocating for gifted children with math talent, how to design a systematic math education program for gifted students, specific curricula and materials that support success, and teaching strategies and approaches that encourage and challenge gifted learners.

Mathematical Creativity and Mathematical Giftedness

Mathematical Creativity and Mathematical Giftedness
Author: Florence Mihaela Singer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 423
Release: 2018-03-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3319731564

This book discusses the relationships between mathematical creativity and mathematical giftedness. It gathers the results of a literature review comprising all papers addressing mathematical creativity and giftedness presented at the International Congress on Mathematical Education (ICME) conferences since 2000. How can mathematical creativity contribute to children’s balanced development? What are the characteristics of mathematical giftedness in early ages? What about these characteristics at university level? What teaching strategies can enhance creative learning? How can young children’s mathematical promise be preserved and cultivated, preparing them for a variety of professions? These are some of the questions addressed by this book. The book offers, among others: analyses of substantial learning environments that promote creativity in mathematics lessons; discussions of a variety of strategies for posing and solving problems; investigations of students’ progress throughout their schooling; and examinations of technological tools and virtual resources meant to enhance learning with understanding. Multiple perspectives in the interdisciplinary fields of mathematical creativity and giftedness are developed to offer a springboard for further research. The theoretical and empirical studies included in the book offer a valuable resource for researchers, as well as for teachers of gifted students in specialized or inclusive settings, at various levels of education.

Challenging Units for Gifted Learners

Challenging Units for Gifted Learners
Author: Kenneth J. Smith
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2021-09-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000498107

Gifted students have the potential to learn material earlier and faster, to handle more complexity and abstraction, and to solve complex problems better. This potential, however, needs stimulating experiences from home and school or it will not unfold. These books are designed to help teachers provide the stimulating curricula that will nurture this potential in school. The units presented in this series are based on research into how these students actually think differently from their peers and how they use their learning styles and potential not merely to develop intellectual expertise, but to move beyond expertise to the production of new ideas. The Math book includes units that ask students to develop a financial portfolio that includes high- and low-risk stocks, options and margins, AAA and junk bonds, mutual funds, and money markets; use math, science, engineering, technology, and art to design and build a miniature golf course; develop games based on probability; and run a real-life small business. Grades 6-8

Using the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics with Gifted and Advanced Learners

Using the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics with Gifted and Advanced Learners
Author: Susan K. Johnsen
Publisher: Using the Common Core State St
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781593639945

Using the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics With Gifted and Advanced Learners provides teachers and administrators examples and strategies to implement the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS) with advanced learners at all stages of development in K-12 schools. The book describes--and demonstrates with specific examples from the CCSS--what effective differentiated activities in mathematics look like for top learners. It shares how educators can provide rigor within the new standards to allow students to demonstrate higher level thinking, reasoning, problem solving, passion, and inventiveness in mathematics. By doing so, students will develop the skills, habits of mind, and attitudes toward learning needed to reach high levels of competency and creative production in mathematics fields.

Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress on Mathematical Education

Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress on Mathematical Education
Author: Hiroshi Fujita
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 447
Release: 2007-05-08
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1402079109

Mathematics as a discipline has a long history, emerging from many cultures, with a truly universal character. Mathematicians throughout the world have a fundamentally common understanding of the nature of mathematics and of its central problems and methods. Research mathematicians in any part of the world are part of a cohesive intellectual community that communicates fluently. Among organizations devoted to mathematics education, The International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) is distinctive because of its close ties to the mathematics community. The great challenges now facing mathematics education around the world demand a deeper and more sensitive involvement of disciplinary mathematicians than we now have, both in the work of educational improvements and in research on the nature of teaching and learning.

Educating Your Gifted Child

Educating Your Gifted Child
Author: Vicki Caruana
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2002
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781581343564

Advise on a wide range of topics about gifted children, from the characteristics of and myths about gifted kids to matching teaching and reading styles and handling family dynamics. Includes many of her own experiences and those of other parents, as well as experts in the field. Provides lists of resources and support groups to help parents in making educational choices for gifted children fromp preschool age and up.

Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education

Encyclopedia of Mathematics Education
Author: Louise Grinstein
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 911
Release: 2001-03-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1136787224

This single-volume reference is designed for readers and researchers investigating national and international aspects of mathematics education at the elementary, secondary, and post-secondary levels. It contains more than 400 entries, arranged alphabetically by headings of greatest pertinence to mathematics education. The scope is comprehensive, encompassing all major areas of mathematics education, including assessment, content and instructional procedures, curriculum, enrichment, international comparisons, and psychology of learning and instruction.