Paired to empower mathematics professionals
Volumes paired by topic from NCTM’s two best-selling series, Essential Understanding and Putting Essential Understanding into Practice, can transform the way that teachers understand and teach school mathematics. The Essential Understanding volume for teaching rational numbers in grades 3–5 deepens and enriches teachers’ understanding of the mathematics, and the book’s counterpart for fractions in the Putting Essential Understanding into Practice Series shows how to take that new understanding into the classroom and use it in selecting activities, assessing students’ thinking, and determining next steps in instruction.
Exploring and experiencing the power of the big ideas and essential understandings related to fractions, or more broadly, rational numbers, prepares teachers to address those ideas more powerfully and productively in the classroom.
Both books examine connections to other mathematics and include questions for reflection that actively engage teachers in building first their mathematical and then their pedagogical content knowledge.
Focus on the ideas that you need to understand. Then take this essential understanding and put it into practice in your teaching.
Essential Understanding and Putting Essential Understanding into Practice: Fractions Bundle 3-5 Contents