Pedagogy Of Mathematics

Preface

This book “Pedagogy of Mathematics” is written based on the recommendations of NCF- 2005 and NCFTE-2009. As the ncf-2005 emphasizes that children’s experience of School Education must be linked with the life outside the school, so that learning experience is joyful. Having had this in mind, several opportunities are provided to students to construct their systematic knowledge by engaging them in activities, experiment, projects, field visits, discussion with peers and teachers, group work, brainstorming sessions, collecting information from different sources, inquiring, listening, thinking etc. The ncfte-2009 also emphasized the innovative method of teaching and is pedagogy is from teachers and exports to a more student centered approach where the teacher facilities learning. By keeping these changes in the curriculum and based on these recommendations of NCF-2005 & NCFTE-2009, an attempt has made to assist you in your pursuit the enhancement of effectiveness, excellence, diversity and creativity in the area of teaching learning of mathematics.

This book focuses on teaching of Mathematics which will be used for the professional preparation of teachers for teaching mathematics at secondary level. This also helps for the professional development of teachers teaching at secondary level and the people who are associated with mathematics teaching. The learning of mathematics based on the content categorized as concepts, facts and generalizations. We know that in learning mathematics it involves mathematical principles, formulae and mathematical generalization. This book is designed to meet the challenges of learning by using constructivist pedagogy as focused in National Curriculum Framework 2005 (NCF-2005).

Prospective teachers of mathematics may profitably use this book not only to gain some specific knowledge of value in their day-to-day work of teaching but also to obtain a perspective of the problems and also its solutions, faced by a mathematics teacher.

The content in this book distributed in five unites namely: meaning, Nature and scope of mathematics; aims and objectives of teaching mathematics; methods, approaches and strategies in teaching and learning of mathematical concepts; planning for teaching learning mathematics