Engage students in mathematics using growth mindset techniques The most challenging parts of teaching mathematics are engaging students and helping them understand the connections between mathematics concepts. In this volume, you'll find a collection of low floor, high ceiling tasks that will help you do just that, by looking at the big ideas at the first-grade level through visualization, play, and investigation.During their work with tens of thousands of teachers, authors Jo Boaler, Jen Munson, and Cathy Williams heard the same message—that they want to incorporate more brain science into their math instruction, but they need guidance in the techniques that work best to get across the concepts they needed to teach. So the authors designed Mindset Mathematics around the principle of active student engagement, with tasks that reflect the latest brain science on learning. Open, creative, and visual math tasks have been shown to improve student test scores, and more importantly change their relationship with mathematics and start believing in their own potential. The tasks in Mindset Mathematics reflect the lessons from brain science that: There is no such thing as a math person - anyone can learn mathematics to high levels.Mistakes, struggle and challenge are the most important times for brain growth.Speed is unimportant in mathematics.Mathematics is a visual and beautiful subject, and our brains want to think visually about mathematics.With engaging questions, open-ended tasks, and four-color visuals that will help kids get excited about mathematics, Mindset Mathematics is organized around nine big ideas which emphasize the connections within the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and can be used with any current curriculum.

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Utgivningsdatum:2019-08-27
Mått:216 x 272 x 15 mm
Vikt:771 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Mindset Mathematics
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN:9781119358800

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JO BOALER is a professor of mathematics education at Stanford University and co-founder and faculty director of youcubed. She serves as an advisor to several Silicon Valley companies and is a White House presenter on girls and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). The author of seven books, including Mathematical Mindsets, and numerous research articles, she is a regular contributor to news and radio in the United States and England. JEN MUNSON is a doctoral candidate at Stanford University, a professional developer, and a former classroom teacher. She works with teachers and school leaders across the U.S. to develop responsive, equitable mathematics instruction. CATHY WILLIAMS is the co-founder and the executive director of youcubed at Stanford University. Before working at youcubed she was a high school math teacher and worked in mathematics curriculum and administration at the county and district levels in California.

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IntroductionLow Floor, High Ceiling TasksYoucubed Summer CampMemorization versus Conceptual EngagementMathematical Thinking, Reasoning, and ConvincingBig IdeasStructure of the BookActivities for Building NormsEncouraging Good Group WorkPaper Folding: Learning to Reason, Convince, and Be SkepticalBig Idea 1: Seeing Patterns inside NumbersVisualize: Visualizing NumbersPlay: What Could It Be?Investigate: How Flexible Is a Number?Big Idea 2: Building and Designing with Shapes and AnglesVisualize: Tile It!Play: Those Crazy Rep-TilesInvestigate: PolyiamondsBig Idea 3: Making and Naming Number PatternsVisualize: Finding FibonacciPlay: Pattern CarnivalInvestigate: All Hail!Big Idea 4: Units Are a RelationshipVisualize: It’s All in the AxesPlay: Measure UpInvestigate: 10,000 StepsBig Idea 5: Modeling with Unit FractionsVisualize: Perplexing MeasuresPlay: Tangram DesignsInvestigate: Pixeled FractionsBig Idea 6: Fraction EquivalenceVisualize: Painting PiecesPlay: Color-Coding FractionsInvestigate: Tiling RectanglesBig Idea 7: Illustrating Multiplication and DivisionVisualize: Visual ProofPlay: Cover the FieldInvestigate: Table PatternsBig Idea 8: Using Operations FlexiblyVisualize: How Crowded Is the Crowd?Play: Target 20Investigate: Supply ParadeBig Idea 9: What Is a Decimal?Visualize: Finding the Better DealPlay: Decimals on a LineInvestigate: Can You Make It?About the AuthorsAcknowledgmentsIndex