For courses in undergraduate Elementary and Middle School Mathematics Education With an emphasis on inquiry and process, Teaching Mathematics in Elementary and Middle School embraces active mathematics instruction and the development of mathematical thinking through problem solving. The text challenges future teachers to prepare their K-8 students for a world that requires a higher level of mathematical literacy and enables them to compete in a global society. Teachers will develop their own mathematical abilities allowing them to help students discover a rich combination of thinking processes and problem-solving strategies, raising the learning expectations for all.

Teaching Mathematics in Elementary and Middle School: Developing Mathematical Thinking

Education & Teaching

Martinez, Nancy C.

Martinez, Joseph G.R.

Schools & Teaching

Pearson College Div

Basic College Writing: A Text With Readings

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Pearson

Filled with over 100 inquiry-based activities, Activities for Mathematical Thinking addresses the changing ways in which students learn and teachers teach mathematics. The emphasis is on hands-on learning and an inductive, rather than deductive, approach to mathematics. Organized in 11 sections, activities range from understanding number systems to developing geometric thinking to exploring part-whole relationships. While diverse in content and complexity, all activities emphasize inquiry and process and include recommended grade levels as well as NCTM process and content standards. Worksheets and handouts are provided in the back of the workbook to help support many of the activities. FEATURES: <li>
Explore-Invent-Discover strategies-Structures and guides mathematics investigations. </li>
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Engaging student questions-Set a context and help focus the inquiry process. </li>
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Exploration of hands-on methods and manipulatives-Lets students model and visualize mathematical situations and experience them directly. </li>
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Printable and customizable forms, manipulatives, and worksheets outlined in activities are easily accessible on the Activity CD-ROM in the back of every copy of the text. </li>
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Problem-solving strategies. </li>
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Each activity includes recommended grade levels and NCTM process and content standards. </li>
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Descriptions of what teachers and students will do to prompt the learning process-Followed by discussions of approaches students might take toward understanding or solving problems. </li>

Activities for Mathematical Thinking: Exploring, Inventing, and Discovering Mathematics

PRENTICE/HALL

B> This new book is a source of outstanding ideas, activities, guidelines, and tools for dealing effectively with an issue that impacts both teachers and math anxiety. The author draws techniques from educational psychology, puts math studies in the larger contexts of learning and cognition, develops therapies, and sets guidelines. It is a practical guide that shows how to identify and cope with anxieties, how to teach the curriculum without sacrificing student confidence or enthusiasm, how to motivate mathematics learning and maintain standards, and how to make math learning fun without avoiding difficult topics or diluting the challenge. Elementary school teachers. A Longwood Professional Book.

Math Without Fear: A Guide for Preventing Math Anxiety in Children

Science & Math

Mathematics

Allyn&Bacon

Reading and Writing to Learn Mathematics responds directly to changing patterns of discourse in the mathematics classroom. The book shows how to teach math using writing and reading lessons and activities in accordance with NCTM standard #2, math-as-communication, which makes ideas clearer by placing complex mathematics concepts in meaningful contexts and helps the student make the transition to mathematical language. Writing to learn mathematics enhances the development of effective problem-solving strategies and inductive reasoning; promotes metacognition; and facilitates assessment by documenting the problem-solving process. Reading to learn mathematics helps break down barriers between mathematics learning and learning across the curriculum. As children become better math readers, they develop cognitive structures and contexts for processes and procedures. This book includes classroom examples, lessons, activities, and stories for teachers to show how everyday language skills can transfer to math learning. The authors illustrate how to make writing a meaningful part of cognitive as well as affective development, how to use reading and writing in assessment of math sills and how to make reading-math assignments more meaningful. This book emphasizes practical, innovative ideas for integrating reading and writing into the K-6 mathematics curriculum. For K-6 preservice and inservice teachers who wish to incorporate writing and reading more effectively into their math curriculum.

Reading and Writing to Learn Mathematics: A Guide and a Resource Book

Guide to British Poetry Explication: Restoration -Romantic

Literature & Fiction

Anderson, Erland

Poetry

G.K. Hall

This text is a guide to poems written during the Victorian and contemporary periods. There are explications covering Matthew Arnold to William Wordsworth, W.H. Auden to W.B. Yeats and many others. Sources include books, journals, articles, and anthologies.

Guide to British Poetry Explication: Renaissance (Reference Publication in Literature)

History & Criticism

Book by Martinez, Nancy C., Martinez, Joseph G. R., Anderson, Erland

Guide to British Poetry Explication, Vol. 1: Old English- Medieval

Book by Martinez, Nancy C., Martinez, Joseph G. R., Anderson, Erland

Guide to British Poetry Explication: Victorian - Contemporary (Volume 4)

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