From two math coaches who really know how
Have you ever wished there were a single resource to help you tackle your most persistent teaching issues once and for all? To engage students in more meaningful ways? To provide the tools you need to increase students’ understanding of key mathematical concepts? All at the same time! Math coaches Thomasenia Lott Adams and Joanne LaFramenta have just written it.

Written especially for grade 3-5 teachers, Math Know-How is organized around real questions Adams and LaFramenta have fielded from real teachers—questions that have remained remarkably consistent across the hundreds of educators they have advised . Now these two coaches share their hard-won wisdom with you, including how to

• Employ strategies to connect instruction to the CCSS, especially the Mathematical Practices
• Negotiate the wide range of lesson planning and instructional choices
• Catch up when you fall behind your pacing guide
• Explore the myriad possibilities for exploiting technology in the classroom
• Engage students with diverse learning needs

Read this book cover to cover and start asking and answering questions of your own about your teaching practice.

“As we shift from individual standards to the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, this book will be a valuable resource in establishing strategies and instructional techniques to better equip teachers for the overwhelming transition.”
—Nena Mathews, Math/Science Teacher, Florence, SC

• Provides a brief primer for teachers on the CCSS for math and teaching strategies related to the CCSS Mathematical Practices
• Includes a chapter on "Making Mathematics Teaching Decisions" that helps teachers negotiate the range of choices they have in planning lessons and instructing their students
• Provides mathematics pacing guides for teachers—complete with dates and timelines to ensure student readiness for benchmark and summative evaluations
• Provides guidance for teachers on how to implement differentiated instructional strategies to empower even the most diverse group of student learners
• Covers the structural aspects of planning for mathematics instruction and the basics of selecting, using, and managing instructional supports for hands-on learning
• Explores the myriad possibilities for using technology in the classroom, for everything from simulations to independent study
• Includes a full chapter devoted to the topic of reflecting on one's teaching practice and adapting instruction based on information gleaned from classroom experience
• Provides coverage of teaching methods that respond to multiple intelligences and use all modalities to affect and encourage each student as an individual
• Explains the many types of assessments and high stakes tests teachers will encounter and guides them through the process of crafting standards-based instruction aligned to the assessment of that instruction
• Presents interviews from five mathematics coaches that include expert advice on key concerns and questions from math teachers in the field