Based on more than twenty years of research, this book portrays the development of children's understanding of basic number concepts. The authors offer a detailed explanation and numerous examples of the problem-solving and computational processes that virtually all children use as their numerical thinking develops. They also describe how classrooms can be organized to foster that development. Two accompanying CDs provide a remarkable inside look at students and teachers in real classrooms

Children's Mathematics: Cognitively Guided Instruction

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Empson, Susan B.

Carpenter, Thomas P.

Psychology & Counseling

Heinemann

Contained in this Guide is suggestions for implementing a Professional Development Program, a selected annotated bibliography, and a selection of resources such as sample workshop agendas and worksheets.

Childrens Mathematics/A Guide for Workshop Leaders: A Guide for Workshop Leaders

Fennema, Elizabeth

Franke, Megan Loef

Levi, Linda

Lindquist, Mary L.

Children's Books

By the time they begin school, most children have already developed a sophisticated, informal understanding of basic mathematical concepts and problem-solving strategies. Too often, however, the mathematics instruction that we impose upon them in the classroom fails to connect with this informal knowledge. Children's Mathematics was written to help you understand children's intuitive mathematical thinking and use that knowledge to help children learn mathematics with understanding. Based on more than twenty years of research, this book portrays the development of children's understanding of basic number concepts. The authors offer a detailed explanation and numerous examples of the problem-solving and computational processes that virtually all children use as their numerical thinking develops. They also describe how classrooms can be organized to foster that development. Two accompanying CDs provide a remarkable inside look at students and teachers in real classrooms implementing the teaching and learning strategies described in the text. Together, the book and CDs provide you with the foundation necessary to engage children in discussions of how they think through problems-providing suggestions for what problems to give and insight into what responses to expect, and how children's thinking will evolve.\

Children's Mathematics: A Workshop Leader's Kit

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

"With the collaboration of a number of dedicated teachers and their students, Susan Empson and Linda Levi have produced a volume that is faithful to the basic principles of CGI while at the same time covering new ground with insight and innovation." -Thomas P. Carpenter This highly anticipated follow-up volume to the landmark Children's Mathematics: Cognitively Guided Instruction addresses the urgent need to help teachers understand and teach fraction concepts. Fractions remain one of the key stumbling blocks in math education, and here Empson and Levi lay a foundation for understanding fractions and decimals in ways that build conceptual learning. They show how the same kinds of intuitive knowledge and sense making that provides the basis for children's learning of whole number arithmetic can be extended to fractions and decimals. Just as they did in Children's Mathematics and Thinking Mathematically, Empson and Levi provide important insights into children's thinking and alternative approaches to solving problems. Three themes appear throughout the book: <ul>
<li>building meaning for fractions and decimals through discussing and solving word problems</li> <li>the progression of children's strategies for solving fraction word problems and equations from direct modeling through relational thinking</li> <li>designing instruction that capitalizes on students' relational thinking strategies to integrate algebra into teaching and learning fractions.</li> </ul>
With illuminating examples of student work, classroom vignettes, "Teacher Commentaries" from the field, sample problems and instructional guides provided in each chapter, you'll have all the tools you need to teach fractions and decimals with understanding and confidence.

Extending Children's Mathematics: Fractions & Decimals: Innovations In Cognitively Guided Instruction

Explore the new edition-including video clips, a sample chapter, and related blogs-at Heinemann.com/ChildrensMath The bestselling first edition of Children's Mathematics helped hundreds of thousands of teachers understand children's intuitive mathematical thinking and use that knowledge to help children learn mathematics with understanding. The highly anticipated Second Edition provides new insights about Cognitively Guided Instruction based on the authors' research and experience in CGI classrooms over the last 15 years. Highlights include: <ul>
<li> how children solve problems using their intuitive understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division </li> <li> the development of children's mathematical thinking throughout the primary grades </li> <li> instructional practices that promote children's active engagement in mathematics </li> <li> connections between children's strategies and powerful mathematical concepts </li> </ul>
A new expanded collection of over 90 online video episodes illustrating children's mathematical thinking, interactions between students and teachers, and classroom instruction that builds on children's mathematical thinking. Together, the Second Edition and videos provide a detailed research-based account of the development of children's mathematical thinking and problem solving, and how teachers can promote this development in ways that honor children's thinking. Save money when you buy all three books in the Cognitively Guided Instruction series together: Children's Mathematics, Extending Children's Mathematics, and Thinking Mathematically

Children's Mathematics, Second Edition: Cognitively Guided Instruction

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