Experiencing School Mathematics: Teaching Styles, Sex and Setting

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Summary: One of the most important books on education this decade
Review: This book is one of the most important books to appear on education this decade. It presents, in a highly readable fashion, the results of a carefully conducted three-year study of the teaching of mathematics in two high schools. Through carefully conducted analyses of interviews with students, observations of lessons, and achievement test data, it provides evidence of the limitations of 'traditional' teaching methods, and a resounding endorsement of the approaches of 'reform' schools. Anyone who cares about the education of young people should read this book. (Winner of the Standing Conference on Studies in Education's prize for the best book on Education, 1998)