Books published by publisher Math Solutions

Number TalksA five- to fifteen-minute classroom conversation around purposefully crafted computation problems that are solved mentally.The best part of a teacher’s day.This dynamic multimedia resource was created in response to the requests of teachers—those who want to implement number talks but are unsure of how to begin and those with experience who want more guidance in crafting purposeful problems. It supports teachers in understanding:what a classroom talk is;how to follow students' thinking and pose the right questions to build understanding;how to prepare for and design purposeful number talks; andhow to develop grade-level-specific strategies for the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.Number Talks supports the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.Facilitator's Guide While the book may be used as an independent resource, it is also structured to provide a framework for collaborative learning groups or to provide professional development opportunities through grade-level teams, individual schools, or districts. Chapter 9 serves as a facilitator's resource.Streaming Video Clips The online video clips provide a visual platform for teachers to reflect on their current practices and target essential understandings from their readings.The video clips feature number talks filmed in actual classrooms, grades K, 2, 3, and 5, plus seven bonus tracks highlighting interviews with the author and teachers. Clips range from five to ten minutes in length with a total viewing time of approximately two hours. The resource includes reference tables to help you quickly and easily locate the video clips by chapter and grade level. All video clips can be viewed online using the key code found on page xxii. To learn more about video streaming access, visit mathsolutions.com/myvideos.Reproducibles More than 250 pages of user-friendly reproducible dot images and ten frames for grades K–2 from Chapter 4. Reproducibles are sold separately. To learn more, visit mathsolutions.com.

Successfully implement the transformational math workshop model of instruction through five accessible, manageable steps:Step 1: Understand Math WorkshopStep 2: Prepare Your Students for Math WorkshopStep 3: Decide Your Math Workshop StructureStep 4: Facilitate Your Math WorkshopStep 5: Reflect on and Refine Your Math Workshop Educators are invited to embrace this resource as their own personal “instructional coach,” first exploring what the author refers to as “three buckets” that need to be in place for a highly successful math workshop:Classroom ArrangementRoutines and ProceduresMathematics Community The resource then offers “Twenty Days to a Classroom Culture That Works,” which includes twenty minilessons that support the communication and practice of expectations surrounding the workshop model. From there, it explores three classroom-tested math workshop structures, providing practical ideas for routines, focus lessons, guided math groups, learning stations, and reflections so you can get started with math workshop in your classroom today.Streaming Video Clips The online video clips invite you inside K–5 classrooms for a seeing-is-believing look at math workshop in action. Seeing clips of actual teachers and students engaged in math workshop is the next best thing to observing the model in a classroom.Reproducibles Templates, tools, and ideas are included and available in downloadable format.

Beyond Invert & Multiply builds on the foundational understandings that are described in Beyond Pizzas & Pies: 10 Essential Strategies for Supporting Fraction Sense, Second Edition, and applies them to situations involving fraction computation. You’ll find: • Classroom Scenarios that address common challenges students (and teachers!) encounter as they learn to operate with fractions; • What’s the Math? sections intended to clarify the mathematics; • What’s the Research? insights that show why “that’s the way we’ve always done things” might not be the most successful approach; • Classroom Activities with friendly, step-by-step instructions and video clips demonstrating how to teach the concepts; • Reproducibles that are also available in a downloadable, printable format at www.mathsolutions.com/beyondinvertandmultiplyreproducibles; • Study Questions at the end of each chapter that encourage readers to set concrete goals for implementing what they’ve read; and • Connections to the Common Core for those states implementing the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. This resource features more than 30 online video clips filmed in actual classrooms. Clips range from 1 minute to 6 minutes in length with a total viewing time of approximately 70 minutes.

Requiring only 5 to 15 minutes to teach, these quick, engaging activities offer experiences in all of the content areas important to elementary mathematics: number, measurement, geometry, data analysis and probability, and algebra. Each resource of 27 classroom-tested lessons models how to develop several important math processes: problem solving, reasoning and proof, communication, connections, and representation. Each activity features a materials list, step-by-step teaching directions, a list of key questions to ask students during the lesson, a vignette of how the lesson actually unfolded in a classroom, and ideas for extending the activity throughout the year. Each book includes reproducibles.

Support mathematical understanding in your instructional program through this rich collection of easy-to-use teaching resources. Each book focuses on a specific arithmetic topic and offers a series of classroom-tested lessons addressing the three important aspects of arithmetic instruction—computation, number sense, and problem solving. The lessons include step-by-step directions, amount of time needed, materials required, classroom vignettes, samples of student work, reproducibles, and a discussion of the math underlying the lesson.

How can writing help students think more deeply and clearly about mathematical ideas? Marilyn Burns shares numerous examples illustrating how students sort, clarify, and define their thinking through different types of writing—journal writing, solving math problems, explaining mathematical ideas, and linking creative writing to math. Includes assessment strategies, answers to frequently asked questions, and samples of authentic student work.

Which day of the week is a $1.00 word? And which U.S. coin is a $1.00 word, even though it’s not really worth a dollar? Find out the answers to these and dozens more riddles in this unique and delightfully illustrated book. Each riddle calls for searching for words, practicing addition, and thinking mathematically. Featured in Math and Literature, Grades 4–6.

The role of a math coach is demanding and often undefined. In this edited collection, veteran math coaches share their expertise, providing glimpses into the unique trials, false starts, and successes they have faced in their positions. The authors ask and answer such questions as What makes an effective math coach? and What pitfalls do math coaches encounter and what can they do about them?

Requiring only 5 to 15 minutes to teach, these quick, engaging activities offer experiences in all of the content areas important to elementary mathematics: number, measurement, geometry, data analysis and probability, and algebra. Each resource of 27 classroom-tested lessons models how to develop several important math processes: problem solving, reasoning and proof, communication, connections, and representation. Each activity features a materials list, step-by-step teaching directions, a list of key questions to ask students during the lesson, a vignette of how the lesson actually unfolded in a classroom, and ideas for extending the activity throughout the year. Each book includes reproducibles.

In today’s financial climate, it’s more crucial than ever to equip children with monetary and economic sense. This resource for grades preK–2 is a must-have for parents and teachers. It provides more than 40 activity-rich lessons to help children be financially and mathematically savvy at a young age. The lessons include literature connections, corresponding assessments, games, suggestions for differentiating instruction, ideas for parents, and alignments to the Common Core State Standards.

Support mathematical understanding in your instructional program through this rich collection of easy-to-use teaching resources. Each book focuses on a specific arithmetic topic and offers a series of classroom-tested lessons addressing the three important aspects of arithmetic instruction—computation, number sense, and problem solving. The lessons include step-by-step directions, amount of time needed, materials required, classroom vignettes, samples of student work, reproducibles, and a discussion of the math underlying the lesson.

INFORMative Assessment should be intertwined with instruction. As we teach, we assess; and as we assess, we teach. With this in mind, INFORMative Assessment goes inside more than 30 classrooms to take “A Closer Look” at how to: create learning targets from instructional standards;design and use probing questions, intentional listening, and follow-up tasks to reveal students’ thinking;use mathematically rich tasks to gather evidence about students’ thinking;identify students’ “logic” that leads to correct, incomplete, or incorrect responses;provide actionable feedback to students; andplan with colleagues to implement INFORMative Assessment in instruction. More than 45 reflections support teachers in confidently carrying out actions in their own classrooms. Each chapter includes connections to standards, specifically the Common Core, and a place for you to record notes about your use of INFORMative Assessment—changes in your thinking, your questions, your frustrations, and, most importantly, your successes!