Best Practices for Teaching Mathematics: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do

by Randi B. Sofman (Editor)

Overview

From human number lines to sweet solutions, these strategies will enliven your math instruction!

In this new volume from Randi Stone, award-winning teachers model mathematics lessons that work and demonstrate innovative methods that have been field-tested in diverse elementary, middle, and high school classrooms.

An ideal resource for new and veteran teachers and linked with companion volumes featuring strategies for teaching writing and science, this resource offers:

• Strategies for motivating students with animated learning icons, money-based systems, human number lines, sweet solutions, and much more
• Techniques for engaging students before and after state tests
• A special lesson study chapter focused on win-win professional practice for teachers

This concise text will become one of your most-used guides for clarifying math concepts, increasing math vocabulary, strengthening problem-solving skills, and inspiring students′ excitement about math in the real world!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452293363
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/28/2007
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	104
File size:	434 KB

About the Author

Randi Stone is the author of nine Corwin Press books: Best Practices for Teaching Reading: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Social Studies: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Writing: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, Best Practices for Teaching Mathematics: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do, and Best Practices for Teaching Science: What Award-Winning Classroom Teachers Do. She is a graduate of Clark University, Boston University, and Salem State College. She completed her doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Table of Contents

Preface
About the Author
About the Contributors
1. Using a Money-Based Discipline or Reward System in an Elementary Classroom - Ryan Faulk, Montana
2. Number of the Year Award - Terry Castoria, New Jersey
3. Technology-Enhanced Second-Grade Math - Helen F. Melvin, Maine
4. Getting Zoned-Out Students to Tune In - Sharon Andrews, South Dakota
5. Letting Student Strengths Lead Math Problem Solving - Steven Wyborney, Oregon
6. Using Animated Learning Icons to Capture and Enhance Instruction - Steven Wyborney, Oregon
7. Honoring the Middle School Student - Heather Sullivan, New Mexico
8. Sweet Solutions in Math Make a Difference in the World - Pam Roller, Indiana
9. But . . . Does It Make Sense? - Patricia F. Clark, New York
10. Keeping Math Alive After State Testing - Dianne M. Peterson, Florida
11. Teaching and Learning Math Vocabulary With Meaning - Debbie Gordon, Arizona
12. I Became a Facilitator as Well as a Teacher - Mary Jane Short, Delaware
13. Human Number Line: Make Yourself a Fraction - Joyce Wolfe Dodd, South Carolina
14. A Systematic Approach to Factoring Trinomials - Jim Miller, Washington
15. Engaged Students Love Math - Donna H. Henry, Arizona
16. Letting Everyone Shine - Carol Ann Amos, Vermont
17. From Angst to Aptitude: Math Is More Than a Four-Letter Word - John P. Pieper, Wisconsin
18. Lesson Study: A "Win-Win" Professional Practice - Debra Rose Howell, Washington
Index