Contains short, focused lessons, each approximately 10-15 minutes in duration, for assisting students in improvinng skills in operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division with numbers, fractions, decimals, and percents.
Case Stories is a protocol that invites inquiry into and promotes reflection on professional practice through the collaborative examination of classroom artifacts (e.g., student work, lesson plans, video). Research suggests that Case ...
In their series of professional books for teachers, Young Mathematicians at Work, Catherine Twomey Fosnot and Maarten Dolk described Mathematics in the City, an innovative project where teachers helped young...
In their series of professional books for teachers, Young Mathematicians at Work, Catherine Twomey Fosnot and Maarten Dolk described Mathematics in the City, an innovative project where teachers helped young...
Explains how children between the ages of four and eight construct a deep understanding of numbers and the operations of addition and subtraction.
Each unit provides a two-week sequence of investigation, minilessons, games, and other contexts for learning. The series' 18 classroom-tested units are organized into grade-appropriate levels.
In our efforts to reform mathematics education, we've learned a tremendous amount about young students' strategies and the ways they construct knowledge, without fully understanding how to support such development...
Contexts for Learning consists of: Investigations and Resource Guides - workshop structure involves students in inquiring, investigating, discussing, and constructing mathematical solutions and strategies - investigations encourage emergent ...
Supports the development of such fundamental topics as place value, compensation and equivalence, addition and subtraction on the open number line, and the efficient use of the five- and ten- structures.
Living with his little brother, Fudge, makes Peter Hatcher feel like a fourth grade nothing.
"This resource supports new and experienced educators who want to prepare for and design purposeful number talks for their students; the author demonstrates how to develop grade-level-specific strategies for addition, subtraction, ...