Common Core Math In Action Grades 3 5 Making The Standards Manageable Meaningful Fun

"Common Core Math in Action, Grades 3 5 Making the Standards Manageable, Meaningful & Fun Catherine Jones Kuhns & Marrie Lasater Jam packed with concrete, pictorial, and abstract activities to address all of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (grades 3 5), Common Core Math in Action features highly engaging, child-friendly activities, all designed to get your students reasoning like mathematicians and loving mathematics. You'll find exciting ways to introduce mathematical concepts through children's literature and to focus on conceptual understanding.

"Common Core Math in Action Making the Standards Manageable, Meaningful & Fun Catherine Jones Kuhns & Marrie Lasater Rockets! Alligators! Dinosaurs! Teddy bears! Do you have your students' attention yet? You will, with this book as your guide. Jam packed with concrete, pictorial, and abstract activities to address all of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (grades K 2), Common Core Math in Action features highly engaging, child-friendly activities, all designed to get your students reasoning like mathematicians and loving mathematics. This book will help you move from drills, procedures, and rote rules to emphasizing standards-based teaching. You'll find exciting ways to involve students in active learning, introduce mathematical concepts through children's literature, and focus on critical thinking and conceptual understanding. Includes the best from Catherine's popular Number Wonders plus scores of exciting new ideas. (K-2) 198 pp. "

Helping teachers prepare elementary students to master the common core math standards With the common core math curriculum being adopted by forty-three states, it is imperative that students learn to master those key math standards. Teaching the Common Core Math Standards with Hands-On Activities, Grades 3-5 is the only book currently available that provides activities directly correlated to the new core curriculum for math. This text assists teachers with instructing the material and allows students to practice the concepts through use of the grade-appropriate activities included. Students learn in different ways, and Teaching the Common Core Math Standards with Hands-On Activities, Grades 3-5 acknowledges that fact through the inclusion of suggestions for variations and extensions of each concept to be used for students with different abilities and learning styles. The activities and lessons are as diverse as the students in your classroom. Inside Teaching with Common Core Math Standards With Hands-On Activities Grades 3-5, you will find: Clear instructions to help you cover the skills and concepts for the new math core curriculum Engaging activities that enforce each core math standard for your students Various suggestions for ways to instruct the concepts to reach the diverse learning styles of your students Complete coverage of mathematical calculations, mathematical reasoning, and problem-solving strategies appropriate for grades 3-5 Teaching the Common Core Math Standards with Hands-On Activities, Grades 3-5 prepares students to achieve success in the important area of mathematics. As your students gain an understanding of the common core standards, they will build confidence in their ability to grasp and manipulate mathematical concepts as they move forward to the next level.

Provides a collection of motivating and fun mysteries and adventures that are meaningfully aligned with fifth grade Common Core Standards for Mathematics.

"The 38 problems and tasks for students in this book are organized into the major areas of the Common Core for grades 3-5: operations and algebraic thinking; number and operations in base ten; fractions; measurements and data; and geometry. For each task, teachers will find a rich, engaging problem or set of problems to use as a lesson starting point, with accompanying discussions that tie the tasks to specific Common Core domains and clusters. Follow-up sections highlight the CCSS Standards for Mathematical Practice students will engage in as they work on these problems."--Back cover.

Describes five practices for productive mathematics discussions, including anticipating, monitoring, selecting, sequencing, and connecting.

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