The intent of this monograph is to showcase successful implementation of mathematical discourse in the classroom. Some questions that might be addressed are:
* How does a teacher begin to learn about using discourse purposefully to improve mathematics teaching and learning?
* How is discourse interwoven into professional development content courses to provide teachers with the tools necessary to begin using discourse in their own classrooms?
* What does a discourse-rich classroom look like and how is it different from other classrooms, from both the teacher's and the students' perspectives?
* How can teachers of pre-service teachers integrate discourse into their content and methods courses?
* How can we use discourse research to inform work with teachers, both pre- and in-service, for example, to help them know how to respond to elicited knowledge from students in their classrooms?
* What are the discourse challenges in on-line mathematics courses offered for professional development? Can on-line classrooms also be discourse-rich? What would that look like?
* In what ways does mathematical discourse differ from discourse in general?
Preface to The Role of Mathematics Discourse in Producing Leaders of Discourse; Bharath Sriraman.
- Chapter 1. Student Mathematical Discourse and Team Teaching; Martha VanCleave and Julie Fredericks.
- Chapter 2. Creating a Discourse-Rich Classroom (DRC) on the Concept of Limits in Calculus: Initiating Shifts in Discourse to Promote Reflective Abstraction; Robert W. Cappetta and Alan Zollman.
- Chapter 3. Discursive Practices in College Pre-Calculus Classes; Jo Clay Olson, Libby Knott, and Gina Currie.
- Chapter 4. "Yeah, but what if...?": A Study of Mathematical Discourse in a Third-Grade Classroom; Karen M. Higgins, Cary Cermak-Rudolf, and Barbara Blanke.
- Chapter 5. The Role of Tasks in Promoting Discourse Supporting Mathematical Learning; Sean Larsen and Joanna Bartlo.
- Chapter 6. Learning to Use Students' Mathematical Thinking to Orchestrate a Class Discussion; Blake E. Peterson and Keith R. Leatham.
- Chapter 7. Orchestrating Whole-Group Discourse to Mediate Mathematical Meaning; Mary P. Truxaw and Thomas C. DeFranco.
- Chapter 8. Eliciting High-Level Student Mathematical Discourse: Relationships between the Intended and Enacted Curriculum; Nicole Miller Rigelman.
- Chapter 9. Beyond Tacit Language Choice to Purposeful Discourse Practices; Beth Herbel-Eisenmann.
- Chapter 10. Care to Compare: Eliciting Mathematics Discourse in a Professional Development Geometry Course for K–12 Teachers; Maria G. Fung, David Damcke, Dianne Hart, Lyn Riverstone, and Tevian Dray.
- Chapter 11. Sociomathematical Norms in Professional Development: Examining Leaders' Use of Justification and Its Implications for Practice; Rebekah Elliott, Kristin Lesseig, and Elham Kazemi.