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Help your students become better math teachers with these essential teacher education resources.
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New 2012 Titles
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Melissa Conklin and Stephanie Sheffield
From Building a Wacky Hundreds Chart to Number Chart Bingo!, the twenty classroom-tested lessons and games in this resource transform the hundreds chart from a poster on the classroom wall into a hands-on, interactive tool used by both teachers and students. The hundreds chart is one of the most important tools teachers can manipulate to help students think about our base ten number system and to build a mental model of the mathematical structure of it.
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Frances Van Dyke
It's All Connected focuses on the power of representation to build algebraic reasoning, offering a collection of 40 quick lessons (each takes less than thirty minutes).
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John Tapper
Solving for Why offers educators the tools and guidance essential for successfully solving for why students struggle with mathematics. The step-by-step, RTI (Response to Intervention)—like approaches, focused on assessment and communication with students, help teachers gain insight into student understanding in a remarkably different way than recipe-type approaches that assume the same solution applies to learners with similar struggles.
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Ann Carlyle and Brenda Mercado
Through an exciting multimedia format, Teaching Preschool and Kindergarten Math takes you into an early childhood classroom for a seeing is believing look at how to create a focused, successful mathematics program while simultaneously deepening your knowledge of the mathematical ideas that need to be developed at an early age.
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Marilyn Burns
A must-have for all teachers, this ultimate how-to guide for teaching math is a comprehensive resource that provides the guidance teachers need to make appropriate and effective instructional decisions. Includes more than 240 classroom-tested activities and dozens of blackline masters.
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Julie McNamara and Meghan M. Shaughnessy
Foreword by Francis (Skip) Fennell
Combining current research and practical strategies, this valuable resource supports teachers in understanding and addressing students' most common misconceptions about fractions, as well as the typical challenges they face. In each chapter, the authors discuss one common dilemma that students have with fractions and present classroom strategies and activities for preventing and addressing that dilemma.
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Nancy Canavan Anderson, Suzanne H. Chapin, and Catherine O'Connor
From the authors of Math Solutions best-selling book Classroom Discussions: Using Math Talk to Help Students Learn, this companion multimedia resource provides actual video examples of teachers successfully orchestrating academically productive math discourse that includes all students. Features a facilitator's guide with over a dozen suggested professional development sessions aligned to the contents in Classroom Discussions.
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Suzanne H. Chapin, Catherine O'Connor, Nancy Canavan Anderson
Based on a four-year research project funded by the U.S. Department of Education, this invaluable resource shows teachers how to make classroom discussions the heart of their mathematics teaching and the key to students' learning.
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Suzanne H. Chapin, Art Johnson
Based on Cathy L. Seeley's award-winning NCTM President's Messages, and including dozens of new messages, this must-have K–12 resource offers straight talk and common sense about some of today's most important, thought-provoking issues in education. With topics ranging from the impact of rising expectations and the trap of timed tests to the role of technology and the phenomenon of jumping on bandwagons, this book provides a base for lively discussion among elementary, middle, and high school teachers; leaders; policy makers; and families.
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Peter Sullivan and Pat Lilburn
Open-ended questions, coined “good questions” by the authors, can prompt children to think creatively and critically. This useful book helps teachers define “good questions,” offers teachers tips on how to create their own good questions, and presents a wide variety of sample questions that span 16 mathematical topics, including number, measurement, geometry, probability, and data.
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Lainie Schuster and Nancy Canavan Anderson
“Good questions”—or open-ended questions—promote students' mathematical thinking, understanding, and proficiency. By asking careful, purposeful questions, teachers create dynamic learning environments, help students make sense of math, and unravel misconceptions. This valuable book includes a wide variety of good questions for classroom use and offers teachers tips on how to create open-ended questions of their own.
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Linda Schulman Dacey and Rebeka Eston
Recognizing the special set of challenges that kindergarten teachers face, this resource presents a vision of a kindergarten classroom that nurtures the growth of all students' mathematical understanding.
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Dana Islas
Featuring video footage from K–2 classrooms, this multimedia resource introduces seven key formative assessment practices, then demonstrates them in action through 19 engaging lessons. It's the ideal resource for further understanding the process of formative assessment in addition to improving your teaching of mathematics. All lessons are aligned to the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and Standards for Mathematical Practice.
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Jeane M. Joyner and Mari Muri
What is formative assessment? Why do we do it and what do students gain? Formative assessment is not a one-time event. It is not the product or end result of a set of well-defined steps. Rather, formative assessment is a process identified in this resource as INFORMative assessment when it is a collection of strategies that engage teachers and students in becoming partners to support students' learning. This resource uniquely presents a collaborative learning journey in which educators understand the INFORMative perspective, explore must-have practices, and discuss how to implement them.
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Pat Lilburn and Alex Ciurak
This dynamic resource provides opportunities for engaging, differentiated, open-ended problem-solving experiences and gives teachers a menu of rich mathematical experiences for all students. At the core of this resource are research-based assessment rubrics to inform math teaching on an ongoing basis.
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Melissa Conklin
Many state standards require students to solve addition and subtraction problems using models. Ten-frames are one of the most important models that teachers can use to help students anchor to the landmark number ten and develop all aspects of number sense. Additionally, state standards expect that students be fluent and flexible in their ability to compute numbers. Ten-frames help students develop the skills they need to become flexible and fluent problem solvers.
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Carmen Whitman
This in-demand collection of lessons explores proportionality, proportional relationships, and proportional reasoning, acknowledging that the ability to reason proportionally is at the forefront of the middle school mathematics curriculum. The lessons support teachers in beginning to think of proportionality as the "big idea" that connects across all strands. Each lesson features carefully detailed teaching notes, three sets of question types to ask students as they progress through the lesson, and reproducible student recording sheets. In addition, the lessons are correlated to the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.
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Marilyn Burns
Challenging negative attitudes and delivering a positive message about what math can and should mean to all of us, this resource is both an entertaining and invaluable read. From "Talking Turkey About Arithmetic" to "Making Math Make Sense," the 13 chapters help everyone conquer their fear of math.
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Linda Dacey and Rebeka Eston Salemi
A must-read for teachers, administrators, math coaches, special education staff, and any other educator who wishes to ensure that all children are successful learners of mathematics. This practical, research-based guide helps teachers understand how decisions to differentiate math instruction are made and how to use pre-assessment data to inform their instruction.
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Linda Dacey and Jayne Bamford Lynch
A must-read for teachers, administrators, math coaches, special education staff, and any other educator who wishes to ensure that all children are successful learners of mathematics. This practical, research-based guide helps teachers understand how decisions to differentiate math instruction are made and how to use pre-assessment data to inform their instruction.
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Linda Dacey and Karen Gartland
Embrace the diverse spectrum of abilities, interests, and learning styles among students. Focusing on the specific needs for teaching and learning mathematics in grades 6–8, the book includes dozens of ready-to-use, research-based tasks aligned to NCTM standards, plus strategies for structuring choice within classrooms.
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Suzanne H. Chapin, Art Johnson
Widely acknowledge for helping teachers, coodinators, and college faculty deepen their understanding of the mathematical concepts they teach, this essential resource offers an in-depth study through 14 chapters.
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Sherry Parrish
- A five- to fifteen-minute classroom conversation around purposefully crafted computation problems that are solved mentally.
- The best part of a teacher's day.
This resource was created in response to the requests of teachers—those who want to implement number talks but are unsure of how to begin and those with experience who want more guidance in crafting purposeful problems.
The DVD features 19 number talks filmed in actual classrooms, plus seven bonus tracks highlighting interviews with the author and teachers.
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Rusty Bresser, Kathy Melanese, Christine Sphar
Addressing the reality that English language learners (ELL) need additional support in classes where math instruction is in English, this lesson-based series gives teachers the essential tools for meeting math content goals and language development goals simultaneously.
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Kathy Melanese, Luz Chung, and Cheryl Forbes
This new addition to Math Solutions Supporting English Language Learners in Math Class series offers a wealth of lessons and strategies for modifying grades 6–8 instruction. Lesson topics include geometry, algebra, the number system, data analysis, and probability and measurement. Each of the lessons addresses one or more of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.
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Nancy Litton, Maryann Wickett
Transform your teachers' and students' approaches to standardized tests from one of panic and anxiety to one of control and confidence! The nine chapters in this book provide the support teachers need to easily align their math lessons with required state standards.
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Jane Crawford
In today's climate of financial extremities, it's more crucial than ever to integrate monetary and economic ideas into your mathematics teaching. This timely resource features over 40 lessons categorized by seven important financial literacy themes for young learners. The lessons include literature connections, corresponding formative assessments, games, suggestions for differentiating instruction, ideas for parents, and alignments to the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. In the appendices you'll find reproducible letters for parents to go with the lessons, plus a final project that ties together all the lessons.
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