Smith M.S., Silver E.A., Stein M.K. Improving Instruction in Geometry And Measurement: Using Cases to Transform Mathematics Teaching And Learning. Volume 3

Teachers College, Columbia University, 2005. - 160 pages.Helping students develop an understanding of important mathematical ideas is a persistent challenge for teachers. In this book, one of a three-volume set, well-known mathematics educators Margaret Schwan Smith, Edward A. Silver, and Mary Kay Stein provide teachers of mathematics the support they need to improve their instruction. They focus on ways to engage upper elementary, middle school, and high school students in thinking, reasoning, and problem solving to build their mathematics understanding and proficiency. The content focus of Volume Three is geometry and measurement.