This is a revision of a classic which integrates managerial issues with practical applications, providing a broad foundation for decision-making. It incorporates recent developments in inventory management, including Just-in-Time Management, Materials Requirement Planning, and Total Quality Management.

Inventory Management and Production Planning and Scheduling

Business & Money

Silver, Edward A.

Pyke, David F.

Peterson, Rein

Management & Leadership

wiley

An in-depth discussion of the major decisions in production planning, scheduling, and inventory management faced by organizations, both private and public. Strategic and operational issues are covered, as well as the latest systems used to make decisions, including Just-in-Time Manufacturing, KANBAN, Distribution Requirements Planning, and PUSH Control. A series of cases focusing on one organization complement the text's discussion, and several problem sets are also included. An extensive list of references allows the advanced student to pursue topics of interest in more detail.

Decision Systems for Inventory Management and Production Planning (Wiley Series in Production/Operations Management)

Implementing Standards-Based Mathematics Instruction: A Casebook for Professional Development (Ways of Knowing in Science Series)

Science & Math

Stein, Mary Kay

Henningsen, Marjorie A.

Smith, Margaret Schwan

Mathematics

Teachers College Pr

Helping students develop an understanding of important mathematical ideas is a persistent challenge for teachers. In this book, one of a three-volume set, well-known mathematics educators Margaret Smith, Edward A. Silver, and Mary Kay Stein provide teachers of mathematics the support they need to improve their instruction. They focus on ways to engage upper elementary, middle school, and high school students in thinking, reasoning, and problem solving to build their mathematics understanding and proficiency. The content focus of Volume One is rational numbers and proportionality. 
Using materials that were developed under the NSF-funded COMET (Cases of Mathematics to Enhance Teaching) program, each volume in the set features: * Cases from urban, middle school classrooms with ethnically, racially, and linguistically diverse student populations. Each case illustrates an instructional episode in the classroom of a teacher who is implementing standards-based instruction. * The teachersÂ’ perspective, including their thoughts and actions as they interact with students and with key aspects of mathematical content. * Cognitively challenging mathematics activities that are built around samples of authentic classroom practice. * Facilitation chapters to help professional developers "teach" the cases, including specific guidelines for facilitating discussions and suggestions for connecting the ideas presented in the cases to a teacherÂ’s own practice. 
As a complete set, this resource provides a basis on which to build a comprehensive professional development program to improve mathematics instruction and student learning.

Improving Instruction In Rational Numbers and Proportionality: Using Cases to Transform Mathematics Teaching and Learning (Using Cases to transform Mathematics and Teaching and Learning)

Boston, Melissa

Hillen, Amy F.

Education & Reference

Helping students develop an understanding of important mathematical ideas is a persistent challenge for teachers. In this book, one of a three-volume set, well-known mathematics educators Margaret Smith, Edward A. Silver, and Mary Kay Stein provide teachers of mathematics the support they need to improve their instruction. They focus on ways to engage upper elementary, middle school, and high school students in thinking, reasoning, and problem solving to build their mathematics understanding and proficiency. The content focus of Volume Two is algebra.
Using materials that were developed under the NSF-funded COMET (Cases of Mathematics to Enhance Teaching) program, each volume in the set features:
Cases from urban, middle school classrooms with ethnically, racially, and linguistically diverse student populations. Each case illustrates an instructional episode in the classroom of a teacher who is implementing standards-based instruction.
The teachers’ perspective, including their thoughts and actions as they interact with students and with key aspects of mathematical content.
Cognitively challenging mathematics activities that are built around samples of authentic classroom practice.
Facilitation chapters to help professional developers “teach” the cases, including specific guidelines for facilitating discussions and suggestions for connecting the ideas presented in the cases to a teacher’s own practice.
As a complete set, this resource provides a basis on which to build a comprehensive professional development program to improve mathematics instruction and student learning.

Improving Instruction in Algebra (Using Cases to Transform Mathematics Teaching and Learning, Vol. 2)

Teachers' College Press

Helping students develop an understanding of important mathematical ideas is a persistent challenge for teachers. In this book, one of a three-volume set, well-known mathematics educators Margaret Smith, Edward A. Silver, and Mary Kay Stein provide teachers of mathematics the support they need to improve their instruction. They focus on ways to engage upper elementary, middle school, and high school students in thinking, reasoning, and problem solving to build their mathematics understanding and proficiency. The content focus of Volume Three is geometry and measurement. 
Each volume in the set features: * Cases from urban, middle school classrooms with ethnically, racially, and linguistically diverse student populations. Each case illustrates an instructional episode in the classroom of a teacher who is implementing standards-based instruction. * The teachersÂ’ perspective, including their thoughts and actions as they interact with students and with key aspects of mathematical content. * Cognitively challenging mathematics activities that are built around samples of authentic classroom practice. * Facilitation chapters to help professional developers "teach" the cases, including specific guidelines for facilitating discussions and suggestions for connecting the ideas presented in the cases to a teacherÂ’s own practice. 
As a complete set, this resource provides a basis on which to build a comprehensive, professional development program to improve mathematics instruction and student learning.

Using Cases to Transform Mathematics Teaching And Learning: Improving Instruction in Geometry And Measurement (WAYS OF KNOWING IN SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS)

Now in its second edition, this essential textbook and professional development resource offers: a new foreword by James Hiebert and two important new chapters that focus on the ways in which the book can be used to support the learning of teachers and administrators. Drawing on the authors’ work over the past decade, Chapter 11 illustrates the various ways in which teacher educators and professional developers might use the materials in the book to aid in the professional growth of teachers, including how to directly improve teachers’ instruction practices and Chapter 12 discusses ways in which principals and school leaders can use the book to become better instructional leaders of teachers who are attempting to teach with cognitively demanding tasks. This essential book: <ul>
<li> Describes the Mathematical Tasks Framework, a tool that has been proven effective in evaluating instructional decisions, the choice of materials, and learning outcomes. </li> <li> Provides narrative cases of actual classroom instruction that include Discussion Questions and Teaching Notes.</li> <li> Includes a link to a downloadable PowerPoint presentation containing an expanded overview of the research for use with teachers, parents, and other interested stakeholders.</li>
</ul>

Implementing Standards-Based Mathematics Instruction: A Casebook for Professional Development

Teaching and Learning Mathematics in Poor Communities: A Report to the Board of Directors of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Children's Books

Campbell, Patricia F.

Natl Council of Teachers of

This book gives advice on making changes to ordinary problems or situations that encourage students to connect thinking and mathematics.

Thinking Through Mathematics: Fostering Inquiry and Communication in Mathematics Classrooms

Kilpatrick, Jeremy

Schlesinger, Beth

Reference

College Board

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