Stretch your students' mathematical imaginations to their limits as they solve challenging real-world and mathematical problems that extend concepts from the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics in Advanced Common Core Math Explorations: Probability and Statistics. Students will learn powerful mathematical ideas about data and chance as they make sense of real-world situations from science, sports, and everyday life. Each activity comes with extensive teacher support, including student handouts, discussion guides, detailed solutions, and suggestions for extending the investigations. Grades 5-8
Changes in society and the workplace require a careful analysis of the algebra curriculum that we teach. The curriculum, teaching, and learning of yesterday do not meet the needs of today's students.
Results from national and international assessments indicate that school children in the United States are not learning mathematics well enough. Many students cannot correctly apply computational algorithms to solve problems. Their understanding and use of decimals and fractions are especially weak. Indeed, helping all children succeed in mathematics is an imperative national goal. However, for our youth to succeed, we need to change how we're teaching this discipline. Helping Children Learn Mathematics provides comprehensive and reliable information that will guide efforts to improve school mathematics from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. The authors explain the five strands of mathematical proficiency and discuss the major changes that need to be made in mathematics instruction, instructional materials, assessments, teacher education, and the broader educational system and answers some of the frequently asked questions when it comes to mathematics instruction. The book concludes by providing recommended actions for parents and caregivers, teachers, administrators, and policy makers, stressing the importance that everyone work together to ensure a mathematically literate society.
The Glencoe Math Student Edition is an interactive text that engages students and assist with learning and organization. It personalizes the learning experience for every student. The write-in text, 3-hole punched, perfed pages allow students to organize while they are learning.
'Planting the Seeds of Algebra, 3-5' will empower teachers with theoretical and practical knowledge about both the content and pedagogy of algebraic instruction, and shows them the different faces of algebra as it appears in the early grades.
How do you get a fourth-grader excited about history? How do you even begin to persuade high school students that mathematical functions are relevant to their everyday lives? In this volume, practical questions that confront every classroom teacher are addressed using the latest exciting research on cognition, teaching, and learning. How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom builds on the discoveries detailed in the bestselling How People Learn. Now, these findings are presented in a way that teachers can use immediately, to revitalize their work in the classroom for even greater effectiveness. Organized for utility, the book explores how the principles of learning can be applied in teaching history, science, and math topics at three levels: elementary, middle, and high school. Leading educators explain in detail how they developed successful curricula and teaching approaches, presenting strategies that serve as models for curriculum development and classroom instruction. Their recounting of personal teaching experiences lends strength and warmth to this volume. The book explores the importance of balancing students' knowledge of historical fact against their understanding of concepts, such as change and cause, and their skills in assessing historical accounts. It discusses how to build straightforward science experiments into true understanding of scientific principles. And it shows how to overcome the difficulties in teaching math to generate real insight and reasoning in math students. It also features illustrated suggestions for classroom activities. How Students Learn offers a highly useful blend of principle and practice. It will be important not only to teachers, administrators, curriculum designers, and teacher educators, but also to parents and the larger community concerned about children's education.
"Unpacking the Standards features focus on important academic vocabulary and offer examples and non-examples to clarify learning goals. Interactive lessons allow you to actively participate and develop a deeper understanding of math concepts. Practice and Problem Solving pages provide opportunities for mathematical modeling as you practice and apply new concepts in real-world contexts. Leveled Performance Tasks and Problem Solving Connections help you pull together math concepts and skills and apply them to real-world situations. Assessment Readiness provides you with opportunities to practice and prepare for your high-stakes test. QR codes make it easy to use your smart phone or tablet to access online resources, including video tutorials, interactive animations, and PARCC assessment readiness practice."--Back cover.
This book is designed to help teachers implement the power of TI-nspire (Touchpad version) in the teaching of Algebra I. Keying sequences are provided with step-by-step instruction. Worked examples and comprehensive exercise sets with complete solutions are provided. Screen displays enable students to connect their work on the handheld to examples in the text. This book exposes students to multiple representations of concepts using numerous experiences with graphs, spreadsheets and calculator commands to solve real-world problems. Together with its sequel, Algebra I with TI-nspire: Semester 2 these books provide a full program in Algebra I as defined by the new Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.
