Making Sense of Mathematics for Teaching, Grades 3-5: (Learn and Teach Concepts and Operations with Depth: How Mathematics Progresses Within and Across Grades) - Softcover

Dixon, Juli K; Nolan, Edward C

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1942496427 ISBN 13: 9781942496427

Publisher: Solution Tree, 2016

Synopsis

Develop a deep understanding of mathematics. This user-friendly resource presents grades 3-5 teachers with a logical progression of pedagogical actions, classroom norms, and collaborative teacher team efforts to increase their knowledge and improve mathematics instruction. Focus on an understanding of and procedural fluency with multiplication and division. Address how to learn and teach fraction concepts and operations with depth. Thoroughly teach plane and solid geometry. Explore strategies and techniques to effectively learn and teach significant mathematics concepts and provide all students with the precise, accurate information they need to achieve academic success.

Benefits

• Dig deep into mathematical modeling and reasoning to improve as both a learner and teacher of mathematics.
• Explore how to develop, select, and modify mathematics tasks in order to balance cognitive demand and engage students.
• Discover the three important norms to uphold in all mathematics classrooms.
• Learn to apply the tasks, questioning, and evidence (TQE) process to ensure mathematics instruction is focused, coherent, and rigorous.
• Use charts and diagrams for classifying shapes, which can engage students in important mathematical practices.
• Access short videos that show what classrooms that are developing mathematical understanding should look like.

Contents

Introduction

1 Place Value, Addition, and Subtraction

2 Multiplication and Division

3 Fraction Concepts

4 Fraction Operations

5 Geometry

6 Measurement

Epilogue Next Steps

Appendix A Completed Classification of Triangles Chart

Appendix B Completed Diagram for Classifying Quadrilaterals

About this title

Review:

"Understanding mathematics is different from understanding how to teach mathematics, and this book is a valuable resource for anyone involved in mathematics in grades 3 to 5. It not only provides clear descriptions of the main ideas in intermediate mathematics, but also how those main ideas progress from Kindergarten through the end of fifth grade. -- Matthew Reames "Mathematics Educator, Curry School of Education,"

About the Author:

Edward C. Nolan is preK 12 director of mathematics for Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland. He has nineteen years of classroom experience in both middle and high schools and was department chair for fifteen years. An active member of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, he is president-elect of the Maryland Council of Supervisors of Mathematics. Nolan is also a consultant for Solution Tree and the Resident Teacher Professional Preparation Program at the University of Central Florida, where he provides support for preservice teachers and their in-service mentors on the Common Core State Standards for mathematics.

Nolan has been published in the Banneker Banner, a publication of the Maryland Council of Teachers of Mathematics, and Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, a publication of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), and he has conducted professional development at the state, regional, and national level, including webinars for NCTM and T

Thomasenia Lott Adams, PhD, is an associate dean and professor of mathematics education in the College of Education at the University of Florida. She has mentored many future teachers of mathematics and mathematics teacher educators. She is the author of an elementary mathematics text series, academic books, and numerous refereed journal articles. Dr. Adams is a nationally known presenter at conferences and for professional development in school settings, which often includes teaching mathematics in grades K 8. She is a trained National School Reform Faculty Certified Critical Friends Group Coach.

Dr. Adams previously served as editor for the Mathematical Roots Department in Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School and coeditor for the Investigations Department of Teaching Children Mathematics. She is a past board member for the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators and School Science and Mathematics Association. She is also a past president of the Florida Association of Mathe

About this edition

• Publisher: Solution Tree
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1942496427
• ISBN 13: 9781942496427
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 200