Simply the Math: A Visual Framework to Help Students Build a Solid Understanding of Mathematical Operations for K–8 - Softcover

Grace, Tracy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1551383829 ISBN 13: 9781551383828

Publisher: Pembroke Pub Ltd, 2026

Synopsis

Key Selling Points

• Visual ways to help students work with numbers in an easy-to-understand progression that simplifies basic operations.
• Math operations don’t change, but this visual approach is an ideal scaffold to help students succeed.
• Timely response to the urgent need for improvement in math skills in Canadian schools.
• Based on a decade of work where this visual approach led to improvement in math scores for all students.
• The author offers professional development opportunities to schools and districts looking to support teachers and students facing challenges.

This full-colour book looks at classroom-tested flexible and visual ways to help students go beyond memorization and really work with numbers. Committed to using the power of visual representations, the book presents a pathway for developing strong operational skills that students can build on. The back-to-basics approach to teaching foundational operations will guide students to develop their own ways of doing math that work for them. It demonstrates that using visuals can make small number facts the foundation for operating with larger numbers, negative numbers, decimals, fractions, and proportions. A new simplified approach to addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

About this title

About the Author

Tracy Grace is an elementary principal with almost 30 years of experience as a classroom teacher, math consultant, school administrator, and professional development facilitator. A recognized math specialist, she has played a key role in school-wide improvement-in-mathematics initiatives in many underperforming schools that led to dramatic improvement. Tracy is mom of two incredible kids, a wife to her strongest supporter, and a passionate educator who loves going to school. She lives near London, Ontario, Canada.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pembroke Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551383829
• ISBN 13: 9781551383828
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160