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Putting Essential Understandings into Practice
	Product	Format	Grade	List Price
	Putting Essential Understanding into Practice: Number and Numeration PK-2 What tasks can you offer—what questions can you ask—to determine what your students know or don’t know—and move them forward in their thinking? This book focuses on the specialized pedagogical... read more.	Publication	Pre K to 2nd	$43.97
	Putting Essential Understanding into Practice: Number and Numeration PK-2 (Download) What tasks can you offer—what questions can you ask—to determine what your students know or don’t know—and move them forward in their thinking? This book focuses on the specialized pedagogical... read more.	PDF	Pre K to 2nd	$43.97
	Putting Essential Understanding of Expressions and Equations Into Practice in Grades 6-8 This book, the eleventh in the Putting Essential Understanding into Practice Series, focuses on misconceptions about variables, expressions, equations, and functions that students often bring to grades... read more.	Publication	6th to 8th	$43.97
	Putting Essential Understanding into Practice: Geometry, 6-8 Do your students suppose that if the perimeter of a shape increases, the area also increases? Do they think that area is the product of base and height, without understanding that this applies only to... read more.	Publication	6th to 8th	$43.97
	Putting Essential Understanding into Practice: Geometry, 6-8 (Download) Do your students suppose that if the perimeter of a shape increases, the area also increases? Do they think that area is the product of base and height, without understanding that this applies only to... read more.	PDF	6th to 8th	$25.86
	Putting Essential Understanding of Geometry and Measurement into Practice in Grades Pre-K-2 This book focuses on the specialized pedagogical content knowledge that you need to teach geometry and measurement effectively in prekindergarten to grade 2. The authors demonstrate how to use this multifaceted... read more.	Publication	Pre K to 2nd	$45.16
	Putting Essential Understanding of Geometry and Measurement Into Practice in Grades 3–5 (Download) This book focuses on the specialized pedagogical content knowledge that you need to teach geometry and measurement effectively in grades 3–5. You’ll find the insight you’ve been seeking into the misconceptions... read more.	PDF	3rd to 5th	$30.79
	Putting Essential Understanding of Geometry and Measurement Into Practice in Grades 3–5 This book focuses on the specialized pedagogical content knowledge that you need to teach geometry and measurement effectively in grades 3–5. You’ll find the insight you’ve been seeking into the misconceptions... read more.	Publication	3rd to 5th	$43.97
	Putting Essential Understanding into Practice: Geometry, Pre-K-2 (Download) This book focuses on the specialized pedagogical content knowledge that you need to teach geometry and measurement effectively in prekindergarten to grade 2. The authors demonstrate how to use this multifaceted... read more.	PDF	Pre K to 2nd	$31.61
	Putting Essential Understanding into Practice: Geometry, 9-12 Do your students think a triangle can be constructed from any three given line segments? Do they believe that a transformation affects only the pre-image—not the whole plane? Do they understand that examples—no... read more.	Publication	9th to 12th	$45.16
	Putting Essential Understanding into Practice: Statistics, 9-12 By Terry Crites and Roy St. Laurent; Terry Crites, Volume Editor; Barbara J. Dougherty, Series Editor, Putting Essential Understanding into Practice Series Learn about the specialized pedagogical... read more.	Publication		$43.97
	Putting Essential Understanding of Ratios and Proportions into Practice in Grades 6 - 8 By Travis A. Olson, Melfried Olson, and Hannah Slovin; Hannah Slovin, Volume Editor; Barbara J. Dougherty, Series Editor, Putting Essential Understanding into Practice Series Do your students believe... read more.	Publication	6th to 8th	$41.59
	Putting Essential Understanding into Practice: Addition and Subtraction, Pre-K-2 (Download) By Janet H. Caldwell, Beth Kobett, and Karen Karp; Karen Karp, Volume Editor; Barbara J. Dougherty, Series Editor, Putting Essential Understanding into Practice Series This book focuses on the specialized... read more.	PDF	Pre K to 2nd	$30.79
	Putting Essential Understanding of Addition and Subtraction into Practice Pre-K-2 By Janet H. Caldwell, Beth Kobett, and Karen Karp; Karen Karp, Volume Editor; Barbara J. Dougherty, Series Editor, Putting Essential Understanding into Practice Series This book focuses on the specialized... read more.	Publication	Pre K to 2nd	$43.97
	Putting Essential Understanding into Practice: Functions 9-12 (Download) Putting Essential Understanding into Practice: Functions 9-12 (Download) read more.	PDF	9th to 12th	$31.61
	Putting Essential Understanding of Functions into Practice in Grades 9-12 Do your students think that the vertical line test is indispensable and foolproof for determining whether a relationship is a function? Do they believe that every function can be modeled by an equation?... read more.	Publication	9th to 12th	$45.16
	Putting Essential Understanding of Multiplication and Division into Practice in Grades 3-5 Do your students believe that division "doesn't make sense" if the divisor is greater than the dividend? Explore rich, researched-based strategies and tasks that show how students are reasoning about... read more.	Publication	3rd to 5th	$43.97
	Putting Essential Understanding of Fractions into Practice in Grades 3-5 What tasks can you offer—what questions can you ask—to determine what your students know or don’t know—and move them forward in their thinking? This book focuses on the specialized pedagogical content... read more.	Publication	3rd to 5th	$42.78
	Putting Essential Understanding of Fractions into Practice, Grades 3-5 (Download) (eBook) Putting Essential Understanding of Fractions into Practice, Grades 3-5 (PDF Downloads) What tasks can you offer—what questions can you ask—to determine what your students know or don’t know—and... read more.	PDF	3rd to 5th	$29.94
	Putting Essential Understanding into Practice 9–12 Bundle This volume, paired by grade band from NCTM’s best-selling series, Putting Essential Understanding into Practice series, transforms the way teachers understand and teach school mathematics. These books... read more.	Publication	9th to 12th	$120.87
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