Offers inspiring, practical, classroom-tested ideas for helping students learn mathematics through problem solving.

Offers practical, classroom-tested ideas for helping students learn mathematics through problem solving.

This is a collection of intriguing mathematical problems and activities arising from our everyday experience.

Do your students need more practice to develop number sense and reasoning? Are you looking to engage your students with activities that are uncomplicated, worthwhile, and doable? Have you had success with number talks but do your students crave more variety? Have you ever thought, "What can I do differently?" Swap out traditional warmup practices and captivate your elementary students with these new, innovative, and ready-to-go routines! Trusted elementary math expert John J. SanGiovanni details 20 classroom-proven practice routines to help you ignite student engagement, reinforce learning, and prepare students for the lesson ahead. Each quick and lively activity spurs mathematics discussion and provides a structure for talking about numbers, number concepts, and number sense. Designed to jump-start mathematics reasoning in any elementary classroom, the routines are: Rich with content-specific examples and extensions Modifiable to work with math content at any K-5 grade level Compatible with any textbook or core mathematics curriculum Practical, easy-to-implement, and flexible for use as a warm-up or other activity Accompanied by online slides and video demonstrations, the easy 5–10 minute routines become your go-to materials for a year’s work of daily plug-and-play short-burst reasoning and fluency instruction that reinforces learning and instills mathematics confidence in students. Students’ brains are most ready to learn in the first few minutes of math class. Give math practice routines a makeover in your classroom with these 20 meaningful and energizing warmups for learning crucial mathematics skills and concepts, and make every minute count.

Offers inspiring, practical, classroom-tested ideas for helping students learn mathematics through problem solving.

Offers inspiring, practical, classroom-tested ideas for helping students learn mathematics through problem solving.

Here are more than 100 motivating activities, games, puzzles, and story problems that reinforce key math skills. Illustrations.

Teach young learners how to collect, organize, record, and analyze data across the curriculum with this collection of interactive mini-books. Guiding questions prompt students as they gather information and explore key science, math, and social studies concepts such as living things, measurement, neighborhood and community, and more! And with repeated opportunities to read and write, students also boost essential literacy skills. For use with Grades K- 2.

A series of three books which present classroom-tested ideas and methods for teaching mathematics through problem solving. These books incorporate the new national standards for teaching math through lesson plans which emphasize cooperative group instruction, use of manipulatives, and independent student investigation. Each book is illustrated with samples of actual student work.

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