Mathematics
Ways to think about MATHEMATICS uses immersion experiences in algebra, geometry, and statistics to help mathematics teachers improve their knowledge and understanding of mathematical concepts. By experiencing open-ended problems, making and checking conjectures, and evaluating problem solving strategies, every math teacher can become better prepared to deal with day-to-day classroom decisions.
Author/Company: Benson Grades: 6-12 Book Code: M1 |
Problem-Solving Strategies for Efficient and Elegant Solutions. The authors have included approximately 200 problems to illustrate the ten problem-solving strategies and to help you incorporate them into your regular instructional program. along with the tried-and-true techniques of algebra and geometry, alternative approaches are presented that make solving problems easier, more understandable, and, therefore, more enjoyable! Once you've seen the power of these strategies in the mathematical context, and their use in real-life situations, you'll be able to apply them to other fields as well. You'll become a better problem solver, and you'll help your students learn to be better problem solvers.
Author/Company:Posamentier Grades: 6-12 Book Code: M2 |
Navigating through Algebra in Prekindergarten - Grade 2 demonstrates how some of the fundamental ideas of algebra can be introduced, developed, and extended. Focuses on repeating and growing patterns, introducing the concepts of variable and equality, and examining relations and functions. Features activities with questions that stimulate students to think more deeply about the mathematical ideas. Discusses expectations for students' accomplishment and provides helpful margin notes and blackline masters.
Author/Company: NCTM Publication Grades: PreK-2 Book Code: M3 |
Navigating through Algebra in Grades 3-5 - This book focuses on important ideas of algebra, such as patterns, variables and equations, and functions. Hands-on activities introduce and familiarize students with these ideas. "Tiling a Patio," "I Spy Patterns," and "That's Odd!" are sample activity titles. Each activity has an "Engage" section designed to capture students' interest, and "Explore" section that presents the activity's core investigation, and an "Extended" section that provides additional ideas for students who are ready for an extra challenge.
Author/Company: NCTM Publication Grades: 3-5 Book Code: M4 |
Navigating through Algebra in Grades 6-8 focuses on using mathematical models and representing and analyzing mathematical situations and structures. The book features activities and problems that require students to use different kinds of representation related to work with functions and to explore interactions that occur among these representations. Chapters emphasize such topics as patterns, relations and functions, change in various contexts, and exploring linear relations.
Author/Company: NCTM Publication Grades: 6-8 Book Code: M5 |
Navigating through Algebra in Grades 9-12 is a book that will cause mathematics teachers to think. Addresses algebra as a language of process, expands the notion of variables, and develops the notion of representation of the functions. Also extends students' understanding of algebraic equivalence and of change. Features activities that can be used with students or as professional development exercises for teachers. Provides blackline masters for classroom use.
Author/Company: NCTM Publication Grades: 9-12 Book Code: M6 |
Menu Collection - This book is a collection of menu puzzles. Each menu contains appetizers, main courses, and desserts. The appetizers are usually warm-up problems that are not very time-consuming and more suitable for the lower grade range. The main-course problems are usually a bit more time-consuming and more challenging. The desserts are even more challenging, more time-consuming, and more suitable for students who have had more experience in solving problems. Great resource to find problem-of--the-week problems.
Author/Company: NCTM Publication Grades: 6-8 Book Code: M7 |
How to Enrich Geometry Using String Designs - The activities in this book - constructing string designs on polygons and polyhedral - were created for grades 6-10, but their enjoyment is by no means restricted to these levels. The designs with polygons, constructed ton cardboard, are easier to make and take less time that those with polyhedral, which are constructed on plastic straws or wood dowels. Use the activities in your classroom as enrichment material for the entire class, a small group, or an individual.
Author/Company: Pohl Grades: 6-10 Book Code: M8 |
About teaching mathematics - When this book was first published, in 1992, it quickly became a much sought-after resource for K-8 teachers. Although it includes over 240 classroom-tested activities, About Teaching Mathematics is not just an activity book. It's a comprehensive resource that presents the information necessary for teachers to teach math through problem solving, to understand the math they are responsible for teaching, and to understand how children best learn math.
Author/Company: Burns Grades: K-8 Book Code: M9 |
Writing in Math Class - Writing and doing mathematics share a number of key qualities - each calls for gathering, organizing, and clarifying thoughts. Each demands finding out what you know and don't know. And each depends on thinking clearly. Although the final representation of a mathematical pursuit looks very different from the final product of a writing effort, the mental journey Is the same - making sense of an idea and presenting it effectively.
Author/Company: Burns Grades: K-12 Book Code: M10 |
Writing to Learn Mathematics - Investigating interesting problems about the world makes mathematics compelling and engaging, but many students in elementary and secondary school experience math only as a set of rules and procedures to memorize and repeat on tests. Writing frees students of the idea that mathematics is a collection of right answers dispensed by teachers.
Author/Company: Countryman Grades: K-12 Book Code: M11 |
Read Any Good Math Lately - Mathematics always has a story behind it: measuring pigs, sharing cookies, calculating profits, weighing elephants, designing quilts, or cooking pancakes. Through stories learners come to view mathematics as a valuable tool for posing questions and solving problems. Children's literature can be a powerful vehicle for sharing these stories with learners. Books provide an authentic context for using mathematics; they celebrate mathematics as a language for describing and framing our world; and they are a nonthreatening avenue for investigating a variety of mathematical concepts and relationships.
Author/Company: Whitin Grades: K-6 Book Code: M12 |
So You Have To Teach Math - This book covers topics such as: preparing for a successful year, planning effective math instruction, leading class discussions, number sense and basics, using manipulative materials, dealing with calculators, incorporating writing into math class, linking math and literature, the first week of school, connecting with parents, handling homework, preparing for administrator observations, and making plans for substitutes.
Author/Company: Burns Grades: K-6 Book Code: M13 |
Children's Mathematics has helped hundreds of thousands of teachers understand children's intuitive mathematical thinking and use that knowledge to help children's learn mathematics with understanding. The highly anticipated second edition proveides new insights about Cognitively Guided Instruction based on the authors' research and experience in CGI classrooms over the past 15 years. Highlights include:
*how children solve problems using their intuitive understanding of addition, subtraction,
multiplication, division, and base-ten number concepts
*the development of children's mathematical thinking throughout the primary grades
*instruction that promotes children's engagement in essential mathematical practices
*connections between children's strategies and powerful mathematical properties and concepts.
Author/Company: Carpenter, Fennema, Franke, Levi and Empson
Grades: K-5
Book Code: M14
*how children solve problems using their intuitive understanding of addition, subtraction,
multiplication, division, and base-ten number concepts
*the development of children's mathematical thinking throughout the primary grades
*instruction that promotes children's engagement in essential mathematical practices
*connections between children's strategies and powerful mathematical properties and concepts.
Author/Company: Carpenter, Fennema, Franke, Levi and Empson
Grades: K-5
Book Code: M14
Great Tables, Graphs, Charts, Diagrams, and Timelines... You Can Make! - In this book, you will find many graphic organizers and other manipulatives to provide you with some action-oriented, hands-on ways to integrate these visual aids into your curriculum, especially when teaching science and social studies.
Author/Company: Zike Grades: 6-12 Book Code: F3 |
Teaching Reading in Mathematics explores the distinct challenges of reading in the context of mathematics. The authors of this companion to the Teaching Reading in the Content Areas (TRCA) Teacher's Manual begin by examining what research says about the role of the reader, the role of climate, and the role of text features for reading in mathematics. Further, they explain strategic processing as effective readers of mathematics use it and discuss strategic teaching in mathematics that incorporates reading to learn mathematics. Many of the book's principles derive from the latest recommendations of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
This book include vocabulary strategies!!! Author/Company: Barton Grades: K-12 Book Code: R2 |