The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics challenges students to become mathematical thinkers, not just mathematical doers.
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It is also an excellent text for preservice teachers as they prepare themselves and their students to understand and teach Math with a deep level of understanding.
All teachers will find it helpful to see the mathematical fraction learning that precedes and follows the grades that they teach.
Math coaches can use it to assist teachers with their transition to the Common Core State Standards.
This accessible book provides Math teachers with support for differentiated instruction.
Cautions about misconceptions or situations to avoid.
Suggestions for explaining ideas to students.
Suggestions for appropriate representations for specific mathematical ideas, including equations, drawings, and manipulatives.
Underlying ideas include: Background to the mathematics of the standard.
In each section the relevant standard is presented, followed by a discussion of important underlying ideas associated with that standard, as well as some thoughtful, concept-based questions that can be used for classroom instruction, practice, or assessment.
The book is organized by grade level beginning with Grade 1, where the first relevant standard is found in the geometry domain, and ending with Grade 7, where the focus is on operations with rational numbers and proportional thinking.
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The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics challenges students to become mathematical thinkers, not just mathematical doers
