Mindset Mathematics: Visualizing and Investigating Big Ideas, Grade 4

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 fourth–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. INDICE: Introduction .Low Floor, High Ceiling Tasks .Youcubed Summer Camp .Memorization versus Conceptual Engagement .Mathematical Thinking, Reasoning, and Convincing .Big Ideas .Structure of the Book .Activities for Building Norms .Encouraging Good Group Work .Paper Folding: Learning to Reason, Convince, and Be Skeptical .Big Idea 1: Seeing Patterns inside Numbers .Visualize: Visualizing Numbers .Play: What Could It Be? .Investigate: How Flexible Is a Number? .Big Idea 2: Building and Designing with Shapes and Angles .Visualize: Tile It! .Play: Those Crazy Rep–Tiles .Investigate: Polyiamonds .Big Idea 3: Making and Naming Number Patterns .Visualize: Finding Fibonacci .Play: Pattern Carnival .Investigate: All Hail! .Big Idea 4: Units Are a Relationship .Visualize: It s All in the Axes .Play: Measure Up .Investigate: 10,000 Steps .Big Idea 5: Modeling with Unit Fractions .Visualize: Perplexing Measures .Play: Tangram Designs .Investigate: Pixeled Fractions .Big Idea 6: Fraction Equivalence .Visualize: Painting Pieces .Play: Color–Coding Fractions .Investigate: Tiling Rectangles .Big Idea 7: Illustrating Multiplication and Division .Visualize: Visual Proof .Play: Cover the Field .Investigate: Table Patterns .Big Idea 8: Using Operations Flexibly .Visualize: How Crowded Is the Crowd? .Play: Target 20 .Investigate: Supply Parade .Big Idea 9: What Is a Decimal? .Visualize: Finding the Better Deal .Play: Decimals on a Line .Investigate: Can You Make It? .About the Authors .Acknowledgments .Index

• ISBN: 978-1-119-35880-0
• Editorial: Jossey Bass
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 288
• Fecha Publicación: 20/09/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés