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Teaching Essential Mathematics, Grades K-8 - Book Cover Look Inside

Teaching Essential Mathematics, Grades K-8

Increasing Engagement and Building Understanding of Key Concepts

Creative, ready-to-use classroom activities for teaching essential math concepts!

This accessible handbook provides an overview of the essential mathematics concepts that students need to acquire in depth. The text offers clear examples of instructional methods that support mathematics success in Grades K–8 and includes hands-on, student-centered activities organized according to the NCTM content standards. Readers will find classroom-friendly exercises, creative calculator activities, and background information for teaching core mathematics concepts, plus:

  • Suggestions for incorporating cooperative learning into mathematics instruction
  • A comprehensive glossary of mathematical terms to broaden educators' subject knowledge
  • Reproducible blackline masters that can be used with students immediately

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Teaching Essential Mathematics, Grades K-8 - Book Cover Look Inside
Product Details
  • Grade Level: K-8
  • ISBN: 9781412941884
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2007
  • Page Count: 152
  • Publication date: December 21, 2007
Price: $34.95
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Description

Description

"The activities can be used to help students understand the reason for the algorithms. Students should not just learn 'how,' but also 'why.'"
—Carrie Chiappetta, Math Teacher
Magnet Middle School, Stamford, CT

"This is a much needed resource book for both inservice and preservice teachers."
—Helen Melvin, Second-Grade Teacher
Dr. Levesque School Elementary School, Fort Kent, ME

Creative, ready-to-use classroom activities for teaching essential math concepts!

Not all educators feel comfortable teaching math, yet it is critical for all students to gain a solid foundation of mathematical understanding in grades K–8. Written by a national consultant in mathematics instruction and assessment, this resource helps educators gain the confidence they need to teach math in creative and engaging ways.

Teaching Essential Mathematics, Grades K–8 provides teachers with an overview of the key mathematics concepts students need to acquire and includes hands-on activities and clear examples to help students learn these concepts in depth. The classroom-ready activities and calculator exercises are organized according to the NCTM content standards, and each activity is directly aligned with specific benchmarks. The material also features:

  • Suggestions for incorporating cooperative learning into mathematics instruction
  • A comprehensive glossary of mathematical terms to broaden educators' subject knowledge
  • Reproducible blackline masters that can be used with students immediately

Both new and veteran teachers can leverage this book's many rich examples and student-centered learning tasks to re-energize their instruction and renew students' enthusiasm.


Key features

  • Incorporates classroom friendly strategies for teaching core mathematics concepts
  • Connects to NCTM standards
  • Includes sample lessons for immediate use
  • Provides concise background understanding for teachers
  • Shares teacher-to-teacher expertise from a presidential award winning math expert
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Timothy J. McNamara

Dr. Timothy J. McNamara is a private mathematics consultant specializing in K-12 systemic improvement efforts for schools and school districts nationwide. Tim has served as both a math teacher and curriculum supervisor in western New York since 1975. He has taught students from grade seven through fourteen, at all levels of ability from remedial to gifted, and in both public and private-school settings. He has also written articles for numerous math teacher journals, and was founder and faculty editor for the Nichols School of Buffalo student mathematics publication, The Nth Degree. Tim is a contributing member of a variety of professional organizations, including the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and has facilitated countless conference workshops around the country, including numerous presentations at NCTM national conferences. In 1993, Tim was honored as the New York State recipient of the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Secondary Mathematics Teaching.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Introduction

1. Number and Operations

Overview

A Case for "Why?"

Calculator Application: Multiplying Fractions

Double Take

GCF and LCM

Make It With an Abacus

2. Algebra

Overview

Catch the Beat

Growing Patterns

Mathemagic

Divide and Conquer

Raising the Stakes

3. Geometry

Overview

Make Figures "Happen"

Hands-On Shapes

Guess My Pattern

Crazy Quilts

Fold It Right There!

4. Measurement

Overview

How So?

Calculator Application: Finding the Measures of the Two Acute Angles of a Right Triangle

I Scream . . . You Scream . . .

How They Stack Up

Calculator Application: Surface Area of a Rectangular Solid

5. Data Analysis and Probability

Even the Odds

Overview

Calculator Application: Determining the Sum of Two Randomly Selected Numbers as Odd or Even

Read More About It!

Living Graphs

Fire and Ice

Games of Chance

Appendix: Worksheet Blackline Masters

Glossary

References

Index

Reviews

Reviews

Quote by Carrie Chiappetta, Math Teacher, Magnet Middle School, Stamford, CT: "Putting together a book for teachers that contains 'tried and tested' lessons created by award-winning educators is very important and useful. The activities can be used to help students understand the reason for the algorithms. Students should not just learn 'how,' but also 'why.'"
"Putting together a book for teachers that contains 'tried and tested' lessons created by award-winning educators is very important and useful. The activities can be used to help students understand the reason for the algorithms. Students should not just learn 'how,' but also 'why.'"
Carrie Chiappetta, Math Teacher
Magnet Middle School, Stamford, CT
Quote by Helen Melvin, Second-Grade Teacher, Dr. Levesque School Elementary School, Fort Kent, ME: "This is a much needed resource book for both inservice and preservice teachers."
"This is a much needed resource book for both inservice and preservice teachers."
Helen Melvin, Second-Grade Teacher
Dr. Levesque School Elementary School, Fort Kent, ME
Quote by Joyce Dodd, Sixth-Grade Math Teacher, Bryson Middle School, Simpsonville, SC: "The activities presented provide a foundation that allows an elementary school teacher to make sense out of the mathematics being taught. The book will appeal to teachers because the lessons begin at a very basic level but methodically progress to a higher level of mathematical thinking."
"The activities presented provide a foundation that allows an elementary school teacher to make sense out of the mathematics being taught. The book will appeal to teachers because the lessons begin at a very basic level but methodically progress to a higher level of mathematical thinking."
Joyce Dodd, Sixth-Grade Math Teacher
Bryson Middle School, Simpsonville, SC
Quote by MAA Reviews, February 2008, Mathematical Association of America: "The author has successfully created a resource book for teachers that accomplishes the goal of 'more discovery and more connections between topics' for mathematics classrooms, which will result in more student engagement. This book will be a valuable resource to new teachers looking for appropriate lessons tied to curriculum standards, veteran teachers looking for new ideas for content-specific activities, and college instructors of preservice and inservice teachers."
"The author has successfully created a resource book for teachers that accomplishes the goal of 'more discovery and more connections between topics' for mathematics classrooms, which will result in more student engagement. This book will be a valuable resource to new teachers looking for appropriate lessons tied to curriculum standards, veteran teachers looking for new ideas for content-specific activities, and college instructors of preservice and inservice teachers."
MAA Reviews, February 2008
Mathematical Association of America

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