mathematics

Teachers share a variety of strategies for working with struggling math learners in kindergarten through grade five, using whole-group, small-group, and individual instruction. Includes DVD.

The book provides teachers with tasks for instruction and assessment purposes.

Provides eighty activities to introduce basic math skills to children, and features twenty illustrated poems on sorting, shapes, fractions, money, and other topics; along a full-page, color transparency of each poem.

Presents the findings of a research project conducted to discover why girls lose their edge in mathematics over the course of their school careers, and describes a literature-based approach for use with elementary students designed to keep girls interested and up-to-speed in math.

Presents historical anecdotes and investigation ideas for the entire calendar year, designed to help children see the many real-world topics and disciplines that involve or are affected by mathematics.

Contains a guide to teaching mathematics in the classroom, and provides a series of research-based ideas on unique instruction approaches that determine the most important components of a classroom that facilitates mathematics learning.

Introduces basic number concepts, including numerals, digits, number order, addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, odd numbers, and even numbers.