Engaging Mathematics Students Using Cooperative Learning

In this book, author and veteran teacher John D. Strebe offers a wide selection of student engagement strategies for math teachers in grades K-12. Strebe shares his class-tested ideas in a clear and spirited voice, with his devotion to the teaching profession and his students apparent on every page. Motivate your math students using the strategies in this book, gleaned from Strebe’s 38 years of teaching experience. Engaging Mathematics Students Using Cooperative Learning shows teachers how to create a climate in which students learn and work respectfully in teams, and in which they strive to improve their math skills together. Additionally, many of the engagement strategies can be applied in classrooms of other subjects. With invaluable ideas to help students remain engaged for longer time periods, this book is especially helpful for teachers instructing in a block schedule.

Motivate your students and create an engaging classroom environment with the time-tested strategies in this book. Drawing on over 35 years of experience, author and consultant John D. Strebe offers a wealth of advice for teachers who want to encourage collaboration and team learning among students of all grade levels. This expanded second edition includes activities and examples across the subject areas, as well as new reproducible tools for classroom use. Topics include... Building enthusiasm and increasing student development with games, mini competitions, and team projects. Implementing new seating arrangements that promote discussion and participation. Keeping students engaged during lectures and presentations. Facilitating group work by organizing students into teams based on academic skills and personal traits. And more! John D. Strebe taught secondary mathematics for 38 years in the Maryland public schools. He conducts workshops for teachers across the country, providing instruction on setting up a cooperative and engaging classroom.

How to use cooperative learning in the mathematics class.

"This classic includes 179 do-tomorrow activities and 23 complete step-by-step cooperative learning lessons to teach number, measurement, geometry, patterns and functions, statistics, probability, logic and algebra. The lessons emphasise manipulatives, calculators, performance assessment, creative thinking, problem-solving and co-op structures. This book includes: a powerful multi-structural approach with lessons and blackline masters for each grade range for each math topic, extremely rich lessons that have been extensively field tested and refined, [and] structures and activities usable in class tomorrow." -- Publisher's web-site.

Includes activities to use with selected Kagan Cooperative Learning Structures. Step-by-step instructions and practical tips on how to use each structure with the given activity are provided.

This title provides general and special education teachers with specific strategies for classroom use, adaptations and modifications for inclusion, ways to address the multiple intelligences of their students, and valuable cooperative learning structures to differentiate instruction in mathematics.