“What does evaluating student reading skills have to do with
mathematics? When people I meet find out that I teach mathematics, they often
say, “I did OK in math—except for those word problems.” This is a quote from
the author of “Literacy Strategies for Improving Mathematics
Instruction” that I think that we have all heard from someone that we
know at some point in our lives. This book is a good resource for any future
math teacher because it focuses on strategies that teachers can implement to
help improve their students’ understanding of the text that we find in our math
textbooks. The text includes vocabulary strategies to help
students comprehend math terms, “reading-to-learn” strategies to help students
extract important content from math problems and math texts, strategies to help
students visualize math concepts and personalize their understandings, and
discussion and listening strategies that help students access prior knowledge
and communicate about problem solving. I think that this could be a really
helpful book for future math teachers because it can help us to improve the
strategies that we use while teaching math, to help all students in our class
be more successful.
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