Learning to Read the Numbers: Integrating Critical Literacy and Critical Numerac

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Showing that being a critical reader of numerical information is an essential part of literacy today, this book offers strategies and examples teachers can use to help students become both critical composers and critical readers of texts.

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description

Being a critical reader of numerical information is an integral part of being literate in today's data-drenched world. Uniquely addressing both mathematics and language issues, this text shows how critical readers dig beneath the surface of data to better evaluate their usefulness and to understand how numbers are constructed by authors to portray a certain version of reality. Engaging, concise, and rich with examples and clear connections to classroom practice, it provides a framework of critical questions that children and teachers can pose to crack open authors' intentions, expose their decisions, and make clear who are the winners and losers -- questions that are essential for building democratic classrooms. Explaining and illustrating how K-8 teachers can engage students in developing the ability to be both critical composers and critical readers of texts, Learning to Read the Numbers is designed for teacher education courses across the areas of language arts, mathematics, and curriculum studies, and for elementary teachers, administrators, and literacy and mathematics coaches.Learning to Read the Numbers is a co-publication of The National Council of Teachers of English and Routledge.

Author Biography

David J. Whitin teaches mathematics education courses in the Elementary Education Department at Wayne State University. Phyllis E. Whitin teaches language arts education courses in the Elementary Education Department at Wayne State University.

Table of Contents

Preface1. Learning to Read the Numbers: It's Everybody's Business2. Getting What You Ask For: Examining the Question3. Definitions and Categories: Deciding What Gets Counted4. Creating the Visual: Playing Statistical Hide and Seek5. What We Don't Know: Critiquing the Sample and the Conclusions6. Learning to be Critics: A Case Study of Children's Television AdvertisingAppendix AAppendix BAppendix CReferencesIndex

Details ISBN0415874319 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2010 ISBN-10 0415874319 ISBN-13 9780415874311 Format Paperback Author Phyllis E. Whitin Short Title LEARNING TO READ THE NUMBERS Language English Media Book Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Subtitle Integrating Critical Literacy and Critical Numeracy in K-8 Classrooms. A Co-Publication of The National Council of Teachers of English and Routledge Pages 136 AU Release Date 2010-08-30 NZ Release Date 2010-08-30 Publication Date 2010-08-30 UK Release Date 2010-08-30 Alternative 9780415874304 DEWEY 372.7044 Illustrations 49 Line drawings, black and white Audience Undergraduate We've got this

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