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| math thinking mats: Math Thinking Mats, Grade 3 , 2016-03-07 Math Thinking Mats for grade 3 reinforces standards-based math skills and improves higher-level thinking skills. This hands-on resource appeals to students by providing grade-appropriate activities that range from exploring division in outer space to marking fractions on a railroad. Teach standards-based math skills using a format that engages students. With 80 pages of high-interest math activities, the Ready to Go: Math Thinking Mats series challenges students with grade-specific math practice. Made from durable card stock and featuring perforated pages, these color-coded activities are easy to organize, making them ideal for learning stations and centers. This resource can also be used to engage early finishers, develop independent learning skills, and support cooperative learning. Perfect for reinforcing essential math skills, the Ready to Go: Math Thinking Mats series provides a convenient way to meet your students’ academic needs. With customizable, open-ended practice activities, you can adjust these hands-on learning activities for independent or small group learning. Complete with a write-on/wipe-away surface, the game mats are designed to make teaching and learning standards-based math a fun and successful experience. |
| math thinking mats: Math Thinking Mats, Grade 1 , 2016-03-07 Math Thinking Mats for grade 1 reinforces standards-based math skills and improves higher-level thinking skills. This hands-on resource appeals to students by providing grade-appropriate activities that range from adding robotic gears to comparing numbers on a carnival ride. Teach standards-based math skills using a format that engages students. With 80 pages of high-interest math activities, the Ready to Go: Math Thinking Mats series challenges students with grade-specific math practice. Made from durable card stock and featuring perforated pages, these color-coded activities are easy to organize, making them ideal for learning stations and centers. This resource can also be used to engage early finishers, develop independent learning skills, and support cooperative learning. Perfect for reinforcing essential math skills, the Ready to Go: Math Thinking Mats series provides a convenient way to meet your students’ academic needs. With customizable, open-ended practice activities, you can adjust these hands-on learning activities for independent or small group learning. Complete with a write-on/wipe-away surface, the game mats are designed to make teaching and learning standards-based math a fun and successful experience. |
| math thinking mats: Math Thinking Mats, Grade 4 , 2016-03-07 Math Thinking Mats for grade 4 reinforces standards-based math skills and improves higher-level thinking skills. This hands-on resource appeals to students by providing grade-appropriate activities that range from practicing division at a racetrack to creating decimals for a pirate. Teach standards-based math skills using a format that engages students. With 80 pages of high-interest math activities, the Ready to Go: Math Thinking Mats series challenges students with grade-specific math practice. Made from durable card stock and featuring perforated pages, these color-coded activities are easy to organize, making them ideal for learning stations and centers. This resource can also be used to engage early finishers, develop independent learning skills, and support cooperative learning. Perfect for reinforcing essential math skills, the Ready to Go: Math Thinking Mats series provides a convenient way to meet your students’ academic needs. With customizable, open-ended practice activities, you can adjust these hands-on learning activities for independent or small group learning. Complete with a write-on/wipe-away surface, the game mats are designed to make teaching and learning standards-based math a fun and successful experience. |
| math thinking mats: Math Thinking Mats, Grade K , 2016-03-07 Math Thinking Mats for kindergarten reinforces standards-based math skills and improves higher-level thinking skills. This hands-on resource appeals to students by providing grade-appropriate activities that range from counting dinosaurs to making number sentences with bears or trucks. Teach standards-based math skills using a format that engages students. With 80 pages of high-interest math activities, the Ready to Go: Math Thinking Mats series challenges students with grade-specific math practice. Made from durable card stock and featuring perforated pages, these color-coded activities are easy to organize, making them ideal for learning stations and centers. This resource can also be used to engage early finishers, develop independent learning skills, and support cooperative learning. Perfect for reinforcing essential math skills, the Ready to Go: Math Thinking Mats series provides a convenient way to meet your students’ academic needs. With customizable, open-ended practice activities, you can adjust these hands-on learning activities for independent or small group learning. Complete with a write-on/wipe-away surface, the game mats are designed to make teaching and learning standards-based math a fun and successful experience. |
| math thinking mats: Math Thinking Mats, Grade 2 , 2016-03-07 Math Thinking Mats for grade 2 reinforces standards-based math skills and improves higher-level thinking skills. This hands-on resource appeals to students by providing grade-appropriate activities that range from counting odd to even socks to measuring school tools. Teach standards-based math skills using a format that engages students. With 80 pages of high-interest math activities, the Ready to Go: Math Thinking Mats series challenges students with grade-specific math practice. Made from durable card stock and featuring perforated pages, these color-coded activities are easy to organize, making them ideal for learning stations and centers. This resource can also be used to engage early finishers, develop independent learning skills, and support cooperative learning. Perfect for reinforcing essential math skills, the Ready to Go: Math Thinking Mats series provides a convenient way to meet your students’ academic needs. With customizable, open-ended practice activities, you can adjust these hands-on learning activities for independent or small group learning. Complete with a write-on/wipe-away surface, the game mats are designed to make teaching and learning standards-based math a fun and successful experience. |
| math thinking mats: Math Thinking Mats, Grade 5 , 2016-03-07 Math Thinking Mats for grade 5 reinforces standards-based math skills and improves higher-level thinking skills. This hands-on resource appeals to students by providing grade-appropriate activities that range from finding coordinate pairs in a garden to forming fractions on cookies. Teach standards-based math skills using a format that engages students. With 80 pages of high-interest math activities, the Ready to Go: Math Thinking Mats series challenges students with grade-specific math practice. Made from durable card stock and featuring perforated pages, these color-coded activities are easy to organize, making them ideal for learning stations and centers. This resource can also be used to engage early finishers, develop independent learning skills, and support cooperative learning. Perfect for reinforcing essential math skills, the Ready to Go: Math Thinking Mats series provides a convenient way to meet your students’ academic needs. With customizable, open-ended practice activities, you can adjust these hands-on learning activities for independent or small group learning. Complete with a write-on/wipe-away surface, the game mats are designed to make teaching and learning standards-based math a fun and successful experience. |
| math thinking mats: Math Thinking Mats, Grade 3 Carson-Dellosa Publishing, 2016-03-07 Math Thinking Mats for grade 3 reinforces standards-based math skills and improves higher-level thinking skills. This hands-on resource appeals to students by providing grade-appropriate activities that range from exploring division in outer space to marking fractions on a railroad. --Teach standards-based math skills using a format that engages students. With 80 pages of high-interest math activities, the Ready to Go: Math Thinking Mats series challenges students with grade-specific math practice. Made from durable card stock and featuring perforated pages, these color-coded activities are easy to organize, making them ideal for learning stations and centers. This resource can also be used to engage early finishers, develop independent learning skills, and support cooperative learning. --Perfect for reinforcing essential math skills, the Ready to Go: Math Thinking Mats series provides a convenient way to meet your studentsÕ academic needs. With customizable, open-ended practice activities, you can adjust these hands-on learning activities for independent or small group learning. Complete with a write-on/wipe-away surface, the game mats are designed to make teaching and learning standards-based math a fun and successful experience. |
| math thinking mats: Thinking Mats File Folder Game, Grade 3 , 2013-05 Build critical thinking skills and reinforce essential math skills with the CenterSOLUTIONS(R) for the Common Core Thinking Mats for grade 3. Each set includes 15 write-on/wipe-away mats with 15 sets of 24 coordinating game cards. The cards and the mats are color coded for easy organization and cleanup. The mats can be used individually or with partners and are open-ended to be used again and again. With activities that can easily be customized to specific learning needs, the Thinking Mats are perfect learning tools for centers, learning stations, and group or individualized instruction. The set includes a 16-page resource guide with recording sheets to allow students to explain their work in the context of the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice. |
| math thinking mats: Math Problem of the Day Practice Mats Mary Rosenberg, 2009-04 Reproducible learning mats give children the extra practice they need to build important math skills. Meets NCTM math standards and focal points. |
| math thinking mats: Mastering Math Manipulatives, Grades 4-8 Sara Delano Moore, Kimberly Ann Rimbey, 2021-08-31 Put math manipulatives to work in your classroom and make teaching and learning math both meaningful and productive. Mastering Math Manipulatives includes everything you need to integrate math manipulatives--both concrete and virtual--into math learning. Each chapter of this richly illustrated, easy-to-use guide focuses on a different powerful tool, such as base ten blocks, fraction manipulatives, unit squares and cubes, Cuisenaire Rods, Algebra tiles and two-color counters, geometric strips and solids, geoboards, and others, and includes a set of activities that demonstrate the many ways teachers can leverage manipulatives to model and reinforce math concepts for all learners. It features: · Classroom strategies for introducing math manipulatives, including commercial, virtual, and hand-made manipulatives, into formal math instruction. · Step-by-step instructions for over 70 activities that work with any curriculum, including four-color photos, printable work mats, and demonstration videos. · Handy charts that sort activities by manipulative type, math topic, domains aligned with standards, and grade-level appropriateness. |
| math thinking mats: Thinking Mats File Folder Game, Grade 1 , 2013-05 Build critical thinking skills and reinforce essential math skills with the CenterSOLUTIONS(R) for the Common Core Thinking Mats for first grade. Each set includes 15 write-on/wipe-away mats with 15 sets of 24 coordinating game cards. The cards and the mats are color coded for easy organization and cleanup. The mats can be used individually or with partners and are open-ended to be used again and again. With activities that can easily be customized to specific learning needs, the Thinking Mats are perfect learning tools for centers, learning stations, and group or individualized instruction. The set includes a 16-page resource guide with recording sheets to allow students to explain their work in the context of the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice. |
| math thinking mats: Thinking Mats File Folder Game, Grade 5 , 2013-05 Build critical thinking skills and reinforce essential math skills with the CenterSOLUTIONS(R) for the Common Core Thinking Mats for grade 5. Each set includes 15 write-on/wipe-away mats with 15 sets of 24 coordinating game cards. The cards and the mats are color coded for easy organization and cleanup. The mats can be used individually or with partners and are open-ended to be used again and again. With activities that can easily be customized to specific learning needs, the Thinking Mats are perfect learning tools for centers, learning stations, and group or individualized instruction. The set includes a 16-page resource guide with recording sheets to allow students to explain their work in the context of the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice. |
| math thinking mats: Math Thinking Mats, Grade 1 Carson-Dellosa Publishing, 2016-03-07 Math Thinking Mats for grade 1 reinforces standards-based math skills and improves higher-level thinking skills. This hands-on resource appeals to students by providing grade-appropriate activities that range from adding robotic gears to comparing numbers on a carnival ride. --Teach standards-based math skills using a format that engages students. With 80 pages of high-interest math activities, the Ready to Go: Math Thinking Mats series challenges students with grade-specific math practice. Made from durable card stock and featuring perforated pages, these color-coded activities are easy to organize, making them ideal for learning stations and centers. This resource can also be used to engage early finishers, develop independent learning skills, and support cooperative learning. --Perfect for reinforcing essential math skills, the Ready to Go: Math Thinking Mats series provides a convenient way to meet your studentsÕ academic needs. With customizable, open-ended practice activities, you can adjust these hands-on learning activities for independent or small group learning. Complete with a write-on/wipe-away surface, the game mats are designed to make teaching and learning standards-based math a fun and successful experience. |
| math thinking mats: Thinking Mats File Folder Game, Grade 4 , 2013-05 Build critical thinking skills and reinforce essential math skills with the CenterSOLUTIONS(R) for the Common Core Thinking Mats for grade 4. Each set includes 15 write-on/wipe-away mats with 15 sets of 24 coordinating game cards. The cards and the mats are color coded for easy organization and cleanup. The mats can be used individually or with partners and are open-ended to be used again and again. With activities that can easily be customized to specific learning needs, the Thinking Mats are perfect learning tools for centers, learning stations, and group or individualized instruction. The set includes a 16-page resource guide with recording sheets to allow students to explain their work in the context of the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice. |
| math thinking mats: Thinking Mats File Folder Game, Grade K , 2013-05 Build critical thinking skills and reinforce essential math skills with the CenterSOLUTIONS(R) for the Common Core Thinking Mats for kindergarten. Each set includes 15 write-on/wipe-away mats with 15 sets of 24 coordinating game cards. The cards and the mats are color coded for easy organization and cleanup. The mats can be used individually or with partners and are open-ended to be used again and again. With activities that can easily be customized to specific learning needs, the Thinking Mats are perfect learning tools for centers, learning stations, and group or individualized instruction. The set includes a 16-page resource guide with recording sheets to allow students to explain their work in the context of the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice. |
| math thinking mats: Thinking Mats File Folder Game, Grade 2 , 2013-05 Build critical thinking skills and reinforce essential math skills with the CenterSOLUTIONS(R) for the Common Core Thinking Mats for grade 2. Each set includes 15 write-on/wipe-away mats with 15 sets of 24 coordinating game cards. The cards and the mats are color coded for easy organization and cleanup. The mats can be used individually or with partners and are open-ended to be used again and again. With activities that can easily be customized to specific learning needs, the Thinking Mats are perfect learning tools for centers, learning stations, and group or individualized instruction. The set includes a 16-page resource guide with recording sheets to allow students to explain their work in the context of the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice. |
| math thinking mats: Guided Math Workshop Laney Sammons, Donna Boucher, 2017-03-01 This must-have resource helps teachers successfully plan, organize, implement, and manage Guided Math Workshop. It provides practical strategies for structure and implementation to allow time for teachers to conduct small-group lessons and math conferences to target student needs. The tested resources and strategies for organization and management help to promote student independence and provide opportunities for ongoing practice of previously mastered concepts and skills. With sample workstations and mathematical tasks and problems for a variety of grade levels, this guide is sure to provide the information that teachers need to minimize preparation time and meet the needs of all students. |
| math thinking mats: Common Core Connections Math, Grade K , 2013-09-01 Common Core Connections: Math is the perfect tool for helping kindergarten students master Common Core math skills. The Common Core Standards for Math in kindergarten focus on two main areas: representing and relating numbers, and describing shapes and space. This resource provides focused practice pages for targeting and reinforcing these and other Kindergarten math skills while helping students connect comprehension with knowledge and application. Connecting the standards to content has never been easier with the Common Core Connections series for Math. The Common Core Connections series provides teachers with a skill assessment and analysis to help determine individualized instruction needs. Focused, comprehensive practice pages and self-assessments guide students to reflection and exploration for deeper learning! Standards correlations are printed on each page to make planning and documentation simple. This series is an ideal resource for differentiation and remediation. Each 96-page book includes a skill assessment, assessment analysis, Common Core State Standards Alignment Matrix, and answer key. |
| math thinking mats: Daily Math Thinking Routines in Action Nicki Newton, 2018-09-05 Bring math to life with routines that are academically rigorous, standards-based, and engaging! Go beyond circling ABCD on your bell ringers and do nows and get your students reasoning, modeling, and communicating about math every day! In this new book from bestselling author and consultant Dr. Nicki Newton, you’ll learn how to develop effective daily routines to improve students’ thinking, reasoning, and questioning about math. The book provides a wide variety of rigorous, high-interest routines and explains how to rotate and implement them into your curriculum. Inside, you’ll find: Questioning techniques that encourage students to think beyond the right vs. wrong continuum Tips for building a math-learning environment that is friendly and supportive of all students Math vocabulary exercises that are meaningful and fun An assortment of innovative daily activities, including Fraction of the Day, Truth or Fib, Find and Fix the Error, Guess My Number, What Doesn’t Belong? and many, many more. Each chapter offers examples, charts, and tools that you can use immediately. With these resources and the practical advice throughout the book, you’ll increase students’ ability to understand math on a deeper level while keeping them engaged in their own learning processes. |
| math thinking mats: Common Core Connections Math, Grade 1 Carson-Dellosa Publishing, 2013-09-17 A perfect solution to connect the Common Core Standards to comprehension and learning! Common Core Connections series for Math and Language Arts, for kindergarten to grade 5, helps every learner make the connection to success! Provides teachers with the diagnostic tests to help determine individualized instruction needs. Focused, comprehensive practice pages and self-assessments guide students to reflection and exploration for deeper learning! Grade specific coherent content progresses in difficulty to achieve optimum fluency. Connecting the standards to content has never been easier with the Common Core Connections series for Math and Language Arts. Each 96-page book includes an assessment test, test analysis, Common Core State Standards Alignment Matrix, and answer key. |
| math thinking mats: Cooperative Learning Spencer Kagan, 2007 A worldwide bestseller on cooperative learning containing step by step approaches to team formation, classroom setup and management, and more. Australian revised edition. |
| math thinking mats: Common Core Connections Math, Grade 4 , 2013-09-01 Common Core Connections: Math is the perfect tool for helping fourth grade students master Common Core math skills. The Common Core Standards for Math in fourth grade focus on three main areas: multi-digit multiplication and division, equivalence, addition, and subtraction of fractions, and properties of geometric figures. This resource provides focused practice pages for targeting and reinforcing these and other fourth grade math skills while helping students connect comprehension with knowledge and application. Connecting the standards to content has never been easier with the Common Core Connections series for Math. The Common Core Connections series provides teachers with a skill assessment and analysis to help determine individualized instruction needs. Focused, comprehensive practice pages and self-assessments guide students to reflection and exploration for deeper learning! Standards correlations are printed on each page to make planning and documentation simple. This series is an ideal resource for differentiation and remediation. Each 96-page book includes a skill assessment, assessment analysis, Common Core State Standards Alignment Matrix, and answer key. |
| math thinking mats: Mat Man Shapes Jan Z. Olsen, Molly Delaney, 2007-01-01 In MAT MAN SHAPES (hardcover), The popular Mat Man™ character comes to life in an imaginative tale that takes children to a world of shapes and rhymes. A friendly hero opens students' minds to shapes, rhyming verse, imagination, exploration, and community in the first book of the Mat Man™ reading series. |
| math thinking mats: Reggio-Inspired Mathematics Richmond School District, 2015-09-03 This booklet documents our school district's collaborative inquiry project looking at how Reggio-inspired practices can inform and enhance primary mathematics teaching and learning. |
| math thinking mats: Common Core Connections Math, Grade 3 , 2013-09-01 Common Core Connections: Math is the perfect tool for helping third grade students master Common Core math skills. The Common Core Standards for Math in third grade focus on four main areas: multiplication and division within 100, developing an understanding of fractions, rectangular arrays and area, and two-dimensional shapes. This resource provides focused practice pages for targeting and reinforcing these and other third grade math skills while helping students connect comprehension with knowledge and application. Connecting the standards to content has never been easier with the Common Core Connections series for Math. The Common Core Connections series provides teachers with a skill assessment and analysis to help determine individualized instruction needs. Focused, comprehensive practice pages and self-assessments guide students to reflection and exploration for deeper learning! Standards correlations are printed on each page to make planning and documentation simple. This series is an ideal resource for differentiation and remediation. Each 96-page book includes a skill assessment, assessment analysis, Common Core State Standards Alignment Matrix, and answer key. |
| math thinking mats: Math Thinking Mats, Grade 4 Carson-Dellosa Publishing, 2016-03-07 Math Thinking Mats for grade 4 reinforces standards-based math skills and improves higher-level thinking skills. This hands-on resource appeals to students by providing grade-appropriate activities that range from practicing division at a racetrack to creating decimals for a pirate. --Teach standards-based math skills using a format that engages students. With 80 pages of high-interest math activities, the Ready to Go: Math Thinking Mats series challenges students with grade-specific math practice. Made from durable card stock and featuring perforated pages, these color-coded activities are easy to organize, making them ideal for learning stations and centers. This resource can also be used to engage early finishers, develop independent learning skills, and support cooperative learning. --Perfect for reinforcing essential math skills, the Ready to Go: Math Thinking Mats series provides a convenient way to meet your studentsÕ academic needs. With customizable, open-ended practice activities, you can adjust these hands-on learning activities for independent or small group learning. Complete with a write-on/wipe-away surface, the game mats are designed to make teaching and learning standards-based math a fun and successful experience. |
| math thinking mats: Mathematize It! [Grades 3-5] Sara Delano Moore, Kimberly Morrow-Leong, Linda M. Gojak, 2019-09-04 The list of math books to truly synthesize what we know so far and what we need to know is a very short and exclusive list. Well, you can confidently add Mathematize It to this collection. Written by three of the most respected math educators today, the book zeros in on that often poorly traveled journey between the question and answer in problem solving. Mathematize It will be your go-to resource to install the mathematical play revolution in elementary classes everywhere! Suni Singh Author of Pi of Life: the Hidden Happiness of Mathematics and Math Recess: Playful Learning in an Age of Disruption Help students reveal the math behind the words I don’t get what I’m supposed to do! This is a common refrain from students when asked to solve word problems. Solving problems is about more than computation. Students must understand the mathematics of a situation to know what computation will lead to an appropriate solution. Many students often pluck numbers from the problem and plug them into an equation using the first operation they can think of (or the last one they practiced). Students also tend to choose an operation by solely relying on key words that they believe will help them arrive at an answer, which without careful consideration of what the problem is actually asking of them. Mathematize It! Going Beyond Key Words to Make Sense of Word Problems, Grades 3-5 shares a reasoning approach that helps students dig into the problem to uncover the underlying mathematics, deeply consider the problem’s context, and employ strong operation sense to solve it. Through the process of mathematizing, the authors provide an explanation of a consistent method—and specific instructional strategies—to take the initial focus off specific numbers and computations and put it on the actions and relationships expressed in the problem. Sure to enhance teachers’ own operation sense, this user-friendly resource for Grades 3–5 • Offers a systematic mathematizing process for students to use when solving word problems • Gives practice opportunities and dozens of problems to leverage in the classroom • Provides specific examples of questions and explorations for all four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals • Demonstrates the use of concrete manipulatives to model problems with dozens of short videos • Includes end-of-chapter activities and reflection questions How can you help your students understand what is happening mathematically when solving word problems? Mathematize it! |
| math thinking mats: Common Core Connections Math, Grade 3 Carson-Dellosa Publishing, 2013-09-17 A perfect solution to connect the Common Core Standards to comprehension and learning! Common Core Connections series for Math and Language Arts, for kindergarten to grade 5, helps every learner make the connection to success! Provides teachers with the diagnostic tests to help determine individualized instruction needs. Focused, comprehensive practice pages and self-assessments guide students to reflection and exploration for deeper learning! Grade specific coherent content progresses in difficulty to achieve optimum fluency. Connecting the standards to content has never been easier with the Common Core Connections series for Math and Language Arts. Each 96-page book includes an assessment test, test analysis, Common Core State Standards Alignment Matrix, and answer key. |
| math thinking mats: Maths Enrichment Ric Publications Staff, 1997 The book contains blackline masters of stimulating activities in mathematics.._ |
| math thinking mats: Mathematics for Machine Learning Marc Peter Deisenroth, A. Aldo Faisal, Cheng Soon Ong, 2020-04-23 The fundamental mathematical tools needed to understand machine learning include linear algebra, analytic geometry, matrix decompositions, vector calculus, optimization, probability and statistics. These topics are traditionally taught in disparate courses, making it hard for data science or computer science students, or professionals, to efficiently learn the mathematics. This self-contained textbook bridges the gap between mathematical and machine learning texts, introducing the mathematical concepts with a minimum of prerequisites. It uses these concepts to derive four central machine learning methods: linear regression, principal component analysis, Gaussian mixture models and support vector machines. For students and others with a mathematical background, these derivations provide a starting point to machine learning texts. For those learning the mathematics for the first time, the methods help build intuition and practical experience with applying mathematical concepts. Every chapter includes worked examples and exercises to test understanding. Programming tutorials are offered on the book's web site. |
| math thinking mats: Number Sense Routines Jessica Shumway, 2023-10-10 Following up her best-selling book, Number Sense Routines: Building Numerical Literacy Every Day in Grades K-3, Jessica Shumway turns her focus to upper elementary classrooms. Number Sense Routines: Developing Mathematical Understanding Every Day in Grades 3-5 is about tapping into every child' s innate number sense and providing daily, connected experiences that are responsive to children's learning needs. Consistent, Daily Routines Work:' Adaptable to any curriculum, Shumway' s 5, 10, or 15 minute warm-up routines are an easy and effective way to build and solidify students' number sense foundations as a supplement to any program Planning and Facilitating Your Classroom:' No matter how familiar the routine, Shumway provides insight on how to keep daily warm-ups fresh. She reveals careful thinking and planning that goes into each routine and offers detailed vignettes and dialogues of how they unfold in real classrooms Assessment Strategies:' As students engage in the process, each routine becomes an exciting opportunity to gain insight into where they are in their understanding and help students articulate their mathematical thinking Identify Big Ideas: Not only will these math routines help develop students' mathematical understanding as they move towards using standard algorithms, but teachers will learn to better recognize the big ideas that emerge in discussions, how to encourage important strategies based in number sense, and how to facilitate conversations on key mathematical concepts. These routines may appear in other places, [but] I have never seen them written in such detail and with so many variations.... Although she makes what she does sound easy, we all know that teaching math well is anything but easy. It is challenging and complex. Unpacking what students are saying, helping them make connections not only to the math but to each other's ideas, while simultaneously recording their ideas using mathematical models, visuals, or equations is no easy task. Jessica provides wonderful visuals, examples of student work, and so much more to help educators develop the tools they need to improve their practice and in so doing improve student learning. From the Foreword by math coach and consultant Lucy West |
| math thinking mats: Thinkers Chris Bills, 2004-01-01 Thinkers is a collection of activities to provoke matheatical thinking. ... The book contains sixteen different contexts for exemplifying the general and generalisong the partiucular which are processes at the heart of 'doing mathematics'. There are examples of the way in which teachers can use the techniques for any topic in mathematics.--Back cover. |
| math thinking mats: Math Problem Solving in Action Nicki Newton, 2017-02-10 In this new book from popular math consultant and bestselling author Dr. Nicki Newton, you’ll learn how to help students become more effective and confident problem solvers. Problem solving is a necessary skill for the 21st century but can be overwhelming for both teachers and students. Dr. Newton shows how to make word problems more engaging and relatable, how to scaffold them and help students with math language, how to implement collaborative groups for problem solving, how to assess student progress, and much more. Topics include: Incorporating problem solving throughout the math block, connecting problems to students’ real lives, and teaching students to persevere; Unpacking word problems across the curriculum and making them more comprehensible to students; Scaffolding word problems so that students can organize all the pieces in doable ways; Helping students navigate the complex language in a word problem; Showing students how to reason about, model, and discuss word problems; Using fun mini-lessons to engage students in the premise of a word problem; Implementing collaborative structures, such as math literature circles, to engage students in problem solving; Getting the whole school involved in a problem-solving challenge to promote schoolwide effort and engagement; and Incorporating assessment to see where students are and help them get to the next level. Each chapter offers examples, charts, and tools that you can use immediately. The book also features an action plan so that you can confidently move forward and implement the book’s ideas in your own classroom. Free accompanying resources are provided on the author's website, www.drnickinewton.com. |
| math thinking mats: Common Core Connections Math, Grade 2 Carson-Dellosa Publishing, 2013-09-17 A perfect solution to connect the Common Core Standards to comprehension and learning! Common Core Connections series for Math and Language Arts, for kindergarten to grade 5, helps every learner make the connection to success! Provides teachers with the diagnostic tests to help determine individualized instruction needs. Focused, comprehensive practice pages and self-assessments guide students to reflection and exploration for deeper learning! Grade specific coherent content progresses in difficulty to achieve optimum fluency. Connecting the standards to content has never been easier with the Common Core Connections series for Math and Language Arts. Each 96-page book includes an assessment test, test analysis, Common Core State Standards Alignment Matrix, and answer key. |
| math thinking mats: Common Core Connections Math, Grade 5 Carson-Dellosa Publishing, 2013-09-17 A perfect solution to connect the Common Core Standards to comprehension and learning! Common Core Connections series for Math and Language Arts, for kindergarten to grade 5, helps every learner make the connection to success! Provides teachers with the diagnostic tests to help determine individualized instruction needs. Focused, comprehensive practice pages and self-assessments guide students to reflection and exploration for deeper learning! Grade specific coherent content progresses in difficulty to achieve optimum fluency. Connecting the standards to content has never been easier with the Common Core Connections series for Math and Language Arts. Each 96-page book includes an assessment test, test analysis, Common Core State Standards Alignment Matrix, and answer key. |
| math thinking mats: 59 Kagan Structures - Proven Engagement Structures Spencer Kagan, Miguel Kagan, Laurie Kagan, 2015-05-01 Kagan Structures are revolutionary teaching strategies. Why? Because they create an unparalleled level of student engagement. Kagan Structures create a cooperative and caring class tone by putting students on the same side as they interact in pairs, small teams, and with classmates. Structures ensure every student is individually accountable so no one can hide and take a free ride. Structures create equal participation which means all students are engaged a much greater percent of the time. In this must-have Kagan reference guide, you get 59 step-by-step Kagan Structures you'll use time and time again. More structures means more tools in you teaching toolbox to create more student engagement, more student learning, and more success! 240pp |
| math thinking mats: Open Middle Math Robert Kaplinsky, 2023-10-10 This book is an amazing resource for teachers who are struggling to help students develop both procedural fluency and conceptual understanding.. --Dr. Margaret (Peg) Smith, co-author of5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematical Discussions Robert Kaplinsky, the co-creator of Open Middle math problems, brings hisnew class of tasks designed to stimulate deeper thinking and lively discussion among middle and high school students in Open Middle Math: Problems That Unlock Student Thinking, Grades 6-12. The problems are characterized by a closed beginning,- meaning all students start with the same initial problem, and a closed end,- meaning there is only one correct or optimal answer. The key is that the middle is open- in the sense that there are multiple ways to approach and ultimately solve the problem. These tasks have proven enormously popular with teachers looking to assess and deepen student understanding, build student stamina, and energize their classrooms. Professional Learning Resource for Teachers: Open Middle Math is an indispensable resource for educators interested in teaching student-centered mathematics in middle and high schools consistent with the national and state standards. Sample Problems at Each Grade: The book demonstrates the Open Middle concept with sample problems ranging from dividing fractions at 6th grade to algebra, trigonometry, and calculus. Teaching Tips for Student-Centered Math Classrooms: Kaplinsky shares guidance on choosing problems, designing your own math problems, and teaching for multiple purposes, including formative assessment, identifying misconceptions, procedural fluency, and conceptual understanding. Adaptable and Accessible Math: The tasks can be solved using various strategies at different levels of sophistication, which means all students can access the problems and participate in the conversation. Open Middle Math will help math teachers transform the 6th -12th grade classroom into an environment focused on problem solving, student dialogue, and critical thinking. |
| math thinking mats: Navigating Through Number and Operations in Grades 3-5 Natalie N. Duncan, 2007 In grades 3-5, students extend their understanding of place value, larger whole numbers, fractions and decimals. They develop an understanding of multiplication and division, mastering and applying basic facts. Concrete materials can help students represent and reinforce these important concepts. Activities in this book invite students to use fraction circles to compare fractions and dot arrays to explore multiplication and the distributive property. The authors present many other hands-on approaches, including the use of work mats, open number lines, multiplication chains and games with spinners. Numbers and the operations that we perform with them are the starting points for all mathematics. Accordingly, Principles and Standards for School Mathematics makes the Number and Operations Standard first among the five Content Standards and gives it centrality across the mathematics curriculum from prekindergarten through grade 12. The Navigations Series translates Principles and Standards for School Mathematics into action. Each book includes practical, teacher-tested activities and a supplemental CD-ROM that features applets for students' use and resources for teachers' professional development. |
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| math thinking mats: I Do We Do You Do Math Problem Solving Grades 1-5 Perfect Sherri Dobbs Santos, 2011-07-18 I DO - WE DO - YOU DO: An RTI Intervention for Math Problem Solving (Grades 1-5) is a ready-made intervention based on best practices and current research for students struggling with the underlying thought processes and step-by-step procedures of math problem solving. Each section includes a Universal Screening, data point assessments, and intervention cards which can be copied and used with individual students or small groups of students. The 'I DO-WE DO-YOU DO' intervention takes the guess work out of how to intervene with students at-risk of failure and provides teachers with the tools necessary to meet their individual needs. A total of 36 problem solving cards are included for each grade 1-5 and follow three simple steps: 1) Teacher models, 2) Teacher/student work collaboratively, and 3) Student completes independently. Detailed directions, progress monitoring graphs, and a scoring rubric are included, making the analysis of data easy to record and understand. Also available in spiral bound at lulu.com. |
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