The Mathematical Resilience Book

This book is about mathematical resilience: what it is, why it is important, how learners can develop it and how teachers can teach in ways that help learners become mathematically resilient.

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Sue Johnston-Wilder is an associate professor of Maths Education at the University of Warwick and a Coach for Mathematical Resilience. Her background is secondary maths teaching, teacher development, mentoring and coaching. She has specialised in addressing maths anxiety and has co-developed the Mathematical Resilience framework. She is a co-founder of the International Mathematical Resilience Network.

Clare Lee is a senior lecturer at The Open University teaching at master's and doctoral levels. Previously she taught mathematics at secondary schools for over 20 years. She has published many books and papers focusing on teaching mathematics effectively and allowing learners access to this important, exciting and useful subject.

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PART 1 Mathematical resilience

1. Mathematical resilience

Clare Lee and Sue Johnston-Wilder

2. Recognising and measuring mathematics anxiety and resilience

Thomas E. Hunt and Dominic Petronzi

3. Tools for building mathematical resilience

Sue Johnston-Wilder and Clare Lee

PART 2 Teaching for mathematical resilience

4. Building a resilient mathematical learning environment

Robert Ward-Penny and John Thomas

5. Understanding the power of a coaching approach

Debbie Inglis and Sue Johnston-Wilder

6. Working with groups of learners
   Robert Ward-Penny

7. Helping individual learners to make mathematics manageable

Janet Kilpatrick Baker

8. Working with groups of support staff

   Georgie Ford and Sue Johnston-Wilder

9. Teacher-led mathematical resilience research

Ben Sinclair, Telma Silveira Para, Masha Apostolidu and Aicha Hadji-Sonni

PART 3 Working within the wider community

10. Communicating ideas about mathematical resilience to parents

Rosemary Russell and Donna Wright

11. Working in Further Education and with adult learners

Holly Heshmati and John Morgan

12. Mathematical resilience for lifelong learning

Clare Lee

PART 4 International considerations

13. Mathematics anxiety as a global problem

International Authors

14. Mathematical resilience global developments

International Authors

PART 5 Looking forward

15. Mathematical resilience - What needs to change?

Clare Lee and Sue Johnston-Wilder

16. Resilience-building problem-solving tasks - The future

Gaye Williams

17. Continuing to work for mathematical resilience

Sue Johnston-Wilder and Clare Lee