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Contexts for Learning Mathematics
Math fact drills and endless word problem worksheets are ineffective and meaningless to students. Contexts for Learning Mathematics provides carefully crafted units designed to foster deep understanding in a math workshop environment. By setting each...
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Developing Judgment : Assessing Children's Work in Mathematics
This book represents the next tier of work teachers will be doing in applying alternative assessment to mathematics in their classrooms. It is a resource book for developing professional judgment, crafted around examples of student work in mathematics...
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Developing Numerical Fluency: Making Numbers, Facts, and Computation Meaningful
Numerical fluency is about understanding Numerical fluency is about understanding, not memorization. It comes over time as students engage in active thinking and doing, not endless worksheets and timed tests. Classroom instruction and materials,...
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Differentiated Math Classroom, A Guide for Teachers, K-8
In every mathematics classroom, the need for differentiated instruction is present: in many it’s acute. Students learn at different rates, in different ways, with different successes and different challenges. Instruction must be flexible enough to...
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Elementary and Middle School Mathematics
All students can learn mathematics with understanding. It is through the teacher’s actions, a positive classroom environment, and by allowing students to develop their own strategies and learn from others that every student can have success and...
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Extending Children's Mathematics, Fractions & Decimals: Innovations In Cognitively Guided Instruction
"With the collaboration of a number of dedicated teachers and their students, Susan Empson and Linda Levi have produced a volume that is faithful to the basic principles of CGI while at the same time covering new ground with insight and innovation." ...
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Finding the Connections: Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Curriculum in Elementary Mathematics
Jean Moon and Linda Schulman offer practitioners a new approach to assessment-one that is comprehensive, practical, and interactive. Recognizing the process-oriented nature of alternative assessment, they contend that the more we "do"...
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Fostering Geometric Thinking Toolkit, 5-10
Here’s everything you need for powerful professional development in one place: The Fostering Geometric Thinking Toolkit. Based on the popular Fostering Geometric Thinking, the Toolkit’s 20 two-hour sessions provide a year’s worth of...
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Good Questions for Math Teaching K-5
What is a good question? How do I create a good question? How might I use a good question in my mathematics classroom? Good Questions for Math Teaching, K-5 is a powerful resource that provides more than 300 examples of open-ended questions for...