Teaching Mathematics at Secondary Level by Tony Gardiner

Teaching Mathematics at Secondary Level by Tony Gardiner

Teaching Mathematics is nothing less than a mathematical manifesto. Arising in response to a limited National Curriculum, and engaged with secondary schooling for those aged 11 ̶ 14 (Key Stage 3) in particular, this handbook for teachers will help them broaden and enrich their students' mathematical education. It avoids specifying how to teach, and focuses instead on the central principles and concepts that need to be borne in mind by all teachers and textbook authors-but which are little appreciated in the UK at present. This study is aimed at anyone who would like to think more deeply about the discipline of 'elementary mathematics', in England and Wales and anywhere else. By analysing and supplementing the current curriculum, Teaching Mathematics provides food for thought for all those involved in school mathematics, whether as aspiring teachers or as experienced professionals. It challenges us all to reflect upon what it is that makes secondary school mathematics educationally, culturally, and socially important.

Tony Gardiner is a highly experienced professional illustrator, who has maintained a lifelong interest in motor sport, including club events, rallies, sprints and hillclimbs, as a spectator, official and competitor. Tony first became interested in motorsports in 1957, when the Ecurie Ecosse team of D Type Jaguars won at Le Mans. Other forms of motorsports, including rallies like the Monte Carlo and Liü¾Ž–”¼ge-Rome-Liü¾Ž–”¼ge, with competitors driving over Europe's mountain roads and snow-covered goat tracks at high speed, captured Tony's imagination. He quickly became aware of Britain's own RAC International Rally, which covered some 2,000 miles of British roads each November. As The RAC became more and more competitive with new forest stages, his interest grew.

In 1964 he was a spectator at the RAC Rally's start at the Chelsea Barracks in London, and decided he would follow the Rally around its entire route. This started some 14 further such ventures, covering thousands of miles in a Mini Cooper, Vauxhall Magnum and a Leyland 1800. Tony even persuaded the Press Office of the Royal Automobile Club to issue him with passes and rally plates, which helped him immensely getting in and out of stages quickly. The result of Tony's passion for the RAC Rally is that he amassed, between 1964 and 1983, over 1,000 photographs in black and white and color, plus a large collection of RAC Rally memorabilia, much of which is reproduced in this book. Tony is based in Worthing, West Sussex, and has published several other books, including RAC Rally Action!, How to Draw & Paint Cars, Motor Racing at Goodwood in the Sixties, and The Brighton National Speed Trials.

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ISBN 13	9781783741373
ISBN 10	1783741376
Title	Teaching Mathematics at Secondary Level
Author	Tony Gardiner
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Open Book Publishers
Year published	2016-02-08
Number of pages	334
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.