Full Description
Strengthen your mathematics lessons through collaborative planning
Teaching by Design in Elementary Mathematics is a series of comprehensive professional development guides that help teachers investigate how students learn. Grounded in the latest research, this book is one of three volumes focused on grade-appropriate number and operations topics aligned with the Common Core State Standards. The capstone activity of each book guides the group through the co-creation and implementation of a prototype lesson. The teacher teams then evaluate the impact of the lesson on student learning and work together to revise it for maximum effectiveness. Through the process, teachers develop:
Deeper content knowledge of important mathematical concepts
Improved understanding of how students learn these mathematical ideas
A stronger foundation for developing effective lessons and improving instruction
Enhanced collaboration skills
Each volume includes a large assortment of reproducible handouts as well as built-in facilitation notes. Teachers will also find helpful resources that address the issue of finding time for school-based professional development and teacher collaboration.
Contents
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction
Session 1: Getting Started
Session 2: Learning Landscape
Session 3: Addition and Subtraction With Like and Related Fractions
Session 4: Understanding Equivalent Fractions
Session 5: Problem Solving With Rational Numbers
Session 6: Decimal and Fraction Relationships
Session 7: Comparing and Ordering Decimals and Fractions
Session 8: Mathematical Models: Adding and Subtracting Fractions
Session 9: Mathematical Games: Adding and Subtracting Fractions and Decimals
Session 10: Understanding Standard Procedures
Session 11: Instruction to Support Fluency With Standard Procedures
Session 12: Designing the Prototype Lesson
Session 13: Discussing Results
Session 14: Reflecting On and Revising the Prototype Lesson
Index
