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Fluency does not only apply to Language

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Making Number Talks Matter is about the myriad decisions facing teachers as they make this fifteen-minute daily routine a vibrant and vital part of their mathematics instruction. Throughout the book, Cathy Humphreys and Ruth Parker offer practical ideas for using Number Talks to help students learn to reason numerically and build a solid foundation for the study of mathematics. This book will be an invaluable resource if you are already using Number Talks or not; whether you are an elementary, middle school, high school, or college teacher; or even if you are a parent wanting to support your child with mathematics. 

This book offers everything a teacher needs to teach, assess, and communicate with parents about basic math fact instruction, including

    • The five fundamentals of fact fluency
    • Strategies students can use to find facts that are not yet committed to memory
    • More than 40 easy to make, easy to use games
    • More than 20 assessment tools that provide useful data on fact fluency and mastery
    • Suggestions and strategies for collaborating with families to help their children master the basic math facts

Mind the Gap

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Being an effective math educator is one part based on the quality of the tasks we give, one part of how we diagnose what we see, and one part what we do with what we find. Yet with so many students and big concepts to cover, it can be hard to slow down enough to look for those moments when students’ responses tell us what we need to know about the next best steps. In this book, John SanGiovanni helps us value our students’ misconceptions and incomplete understandings as much as their correct ones―because it’s the gap in their understanding today that holds the secrets to planning tomorrow’s best teaching.

SanGiovanni lays out 180 high-quality tasks assigned to the standards and big ideas of grades 3-5 mathematics, including addition and subtraction of multi-digit whole numbers, multiplication and division of single and multi-digit whole numbers, foundational fraction concepts and more. The tasks are all downloadable so you can use or modify them for instruction and assessment.

It’s time to break our habit of rushing into re-teaching for the correctness and instead get curious about the space between right and wrong answers.

Valuing Mathematics and Empowering Students

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This text illustrates how children learn mathematics, and then shows pre-service teachers the most effective methods of teaching PreK-8 math through hands-on, problem-based activities. Examples of real student work and new common challenges and misconception tables helps visualize good mathematics instruction and assessment that supports and challenges all learners. This book reflects the Common Core State Standard and NCTM’s Principles to Actions, as well as current research and coverage of the latest teaching technology.

The text is divided into 2 parts. Part one covers the foundations and perspectives of teaching mathematics. The fundamental core of effective teaching of mathematics combines an understanding of how students learn, how to promote that learning by teaching through problem-solving, and how to plan for and assess that learning daily. Part two covers teaching student-centred mathematics. These chapters apply the core ideas of Part I to the content taught in K-8 mathematics. Clear discussions are provided for how to teach the topic, what a learning progression for that topic might be, and what worthwhile tasks look like.

 

The Power of Math Revealed

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This third edition has been expanded with over 100 new tasks and questions that help experienced and novice teachers to effectively and efficiently differentiate mathematics instruction in grades K-8. Math education expert Marian Small shows teachers how to get started and become expert as using two powerful and universal strategies: open questions and parallel tasks. This volume includes key changes that will make it easier for teachers to use in all quality state standards environments, including direct links to Common Core content standards and standards for mathematical practice. 

Transform Your Mathematics Instruction

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Award-winning author Page Keeley and mathematics expert Cheryl Rose Tobey apply the successful format of Keeley’s best-selling Science Formative Assessment to mathematics. They provide 75 formative assessment strategies and show teachers how to use them to inform instructional planning and better meet the needs of all students. Research shows that formative assessment has the power to significantly improve learning, and its many benefits include: stimulation of metacognitive thinking, increased student engagement, insights into student thinking, and development of a discourse community. 

Developing Mathematical Practices Grades 3-10

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Making Number Talks Matter is about the myriad decisions facing teachers as they make this fifteen-minute daily routine a vibrant and vital part of their mathematics instruction. Throughout the book, Cathy Humphreys and Ruth Parker offer practical ideas for using Number Talks to help students learn to reason numerically and build a solid foundation for the study of mathematics. This book will be an invaluable resource if you are already using Number Talks or not; whether you are an elementary, middle school, high school, or college teacher; or even if you are a parent wanting to support your child with mathematics. 

Using insight gained from many years of doing Number Talks with students of all ages, Cathy and Ruth address questions to ask during Number Talks, teacher moves that turn the thinking over to students, the mathematics behind the various strategies, and ways to overcome bumps in the road. If you’ve been looking for ways to transform your mathematics classroom—to bring sense-making and divergent thinking to the foreground, to bring the Standards for Mathematical Practice to life, and to bring joy back into your instruction—this book if for you.