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Learn the strategies that build conceptual understanding of mathematical ideas and problem solving to help students demonstrate more than a year's worth of growth for every year spent in school. John Almarode and Kateri Thunder, authors of Teaching Mathematics in the Visible Learning Classroom, Grades K-2 and Grades 3-5, help participants learn how. By using the right approach at the right time you can design classroom experiences that maximize mathematics learning.

"Has this ever happened to you?

'My lecture went perfectly! I worked the sample problems. I could tell the students really understood the material.' 

The next day: 'I don’t know what went wrong! I thought all my students understood what I went over yesterday...' "

Read more from Frederick Dillon, author of Your Mathematics Standards Companion, High School, and The Common Core Mathematics Companion: The Standards Decoded, High School, on Corwin Connect.

Learn how to use this Matrix featured in Realizing Rigor to refine strategies and select student actions. (Secondary)

Use this observation checklist from The Formative 5 to organize your observations of your students' progress in the classroom related to a specific task. 

This reproducible chart and student handout from Teaching Numeracy remind students of the importance of recording what they have learned, what they noticed, what makes sense, etc. (K-12)

These two wrap-up strategies from Bringing Math Students into the Formative Assessment Equation feature "reflect-aloud" and "X-marks-the-spot" to help students self-assess. 

Join Francis "Skip" Fennell, author of The Formative 5, as he unpacks teacher and classroom-tested mathematics formative assessment techniques that have a big impact on student learning. 

Learn from Linda Gojak and Ruth Harbin-Miles, authors of The Common Core Mathematics Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 3-5, the impactful models and applications that lead students to a better and deeper understanding of division. 

Learn from John SanGiovanni, author of Mine the Gap for Mathematical Understanding, Grades 3-5, the specific actions that teachers can take to close the gaps in student understanding of mathematics.

Learn hands-on strategies for teaching geometry, measurement, and data excerpted from Planting the Seeds of Algebra 3-5. (Elementary)

Use this lesson from Uncovering Student Thinking About Mathematics in the Common Core, Grades K-2, to probe student understanding of addition and subtraction.

Using Audrey & Bruce Wood's book Ten Little Fish, students learn to count backward from 10 by 1s, a precursor for subtraction. This lesson appears in Numbers & Stories. (Elementary)