Making Sense of Mathematics for Teaching Grades 6-8: (Unifying Topics for an Understanding of Functions, Statistics, and Probability) - Softcover
Synopsis
Develop a deep understanding of mathematics. This user-friendly resource presents grades 6-8 teachers with a logical progression of pedagogical actions, classroom norms, and collaborative teacher team efforts to increase their knowledge and improve mathematics instruction. Make connections between elementary fraction-based content to fraction operations taught in the middle grades. 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 grow as both learners and teachers of mathematics.
- Gain clarity about the most productive progression of mathematical teaching and learning for grades 6-8.
- Access short videos that show what classrooms that are developing mathematical understanding should look like.
Contents
Introduction
1 Fraction Operations and Integer Concepts and Operations
2 Ratios and Proportional Relationships
3 Equations, Expressions, and Inequalities
4 Functions
5 Measurement and Geometry
6 Statistics and Probability
Epilogue: Next Steps
References and Resources
Index
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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
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