Alan Sultan

The mathematics that every secondary school math teacher needs to know

Preface Notes to the Reader/Professor Acknowledgments * Intuition and Proof * Basics of Number Theory * Theory of Equations * Measurement: Area and Volume * The Triangle: Its Study and Consequences * Building the Real Number System * Building the Complex Numbers * Induction, Recursion and Fractal Dimension * Functions and Modeling * Geometric Transformations * Trigonometry * Data Analysis and Probability * Introduction to Non-Euclidean Geometry * Three Problems of Antiquity Appendix Index

Queens College: A Program for Math Teachers Requires a Complex Formula

Teacher educators have not been sitting quietly by the side as others have demanded changes in teacher preparation programs. Across the nation, scores of efforts are underway to recruit, train, induct, and retain a highly skilled class of professionals for American schools. These stories cover just a fraction of the initiatives, projects, and programs launched by school districts, universities, foundations, and others, all aimed at advancing student learning by improving teaching. A program that produces math teachers and a healthy retention rate does so by wrapping itself around students and giving them time to learn and grow into the profession.