Dazzling Us with Data is part of the Powerful Mathematicians Who Changed the World Book Series

How can we find answers to what we want to learn? Who can help us think about what to do or where to turn? Dr. Talithia Williams, that’s who! Before Dr. Williams became a powerful mathematician, she was a young girl with many interests, including math. Dazzling Us with Data shares parts of her early years—such as exploring the outdoors, working at the grocery store, and feeling daunted by being one of only a few Black girls in class—and how she applied math to these situations. In addition to learning about Dr. Williams, young readers will get excited about doing math thanks to the interesting questions and math problems throughout the book, and teachers and caregivers can use the discussion and activity prompts to engage young mathematicians in the classroom or at home. Dr. Williams is sure to inspire a new generation of mathematicians who change the world!

Knotting Numbers is part of the Powerful Mathematicians Who Changed the World Book Series

When Liliana has her first day at a new school, she’s nervous about making new friends, and a math problem in her class doesn’t help. After she shares her abuela’s strategy for solving the problem, some of her classmates don’t understand or think her way is wrong. Liliana’s teacher, Ms. Edwards, asks her friend Marcia Ascher, a professor and mathematician, to describe to the students how different cultures have their own ways of doing math. In Knotting Numbers, you can learn alongside Liliana and her classmates as Professor Ascher explains that there isn’t always just one way to solve a math problem—which makes math even more interesting for everyone!

The Mystery Underground is part of the Powerful Mathematicians Who Changed the World Book Series

Solving secret codes, uncovering a scandal, and trying to have cleaner water in their town—they’re all part of the adventures in The Mystery Underground! When Jake and Selah find confusing messages while geocaching, they aren’t sure what the notes mean. But after reading about Agnes Meyer Driscoll, a cryptanalyst, and learning about different ciphers and codes, they work with Rory, Xavierra, and Danielle to decode the odd messages. They realize the secret codes are part of a plot by some very important people to cover up problems in their town of Pottersville. Can Jake, Selah, Rory, and Xavierra use their new knowledge to solve the codes and help Pottersville? Find out in The Mystery Underground!

What We Do When Fairness Fails Us is part of the Powerful Mathematicians Who Changed the World Book Series

How can we use math to understand—and solve—challenges in our world? In What We Do When Fairness Fails Us, Moises, Marissa, and Astrud realize that a specialized high school uses a lottery for admission that prevents many qualified students from attending. As they research how lotteries work, they come across videos by Federico Ardila, a mathematician who explains concepts like randomness and probability and how they apply to our everyday lives. Join Moises, Marissa, and Astrud as they learn from Federico how they can use math—and their voices—to change unfair systems and help people get the opportunities they deserve.

Learn to practice the skills of identifying injustice, reflecting on the social, political, and cultural influences that have shaped our own perspective, and responding with empathy.

Responding and disrupting injustice isn’t always as simple as right or wrong, and one-stop-shop solutions are hardly adequate to respond to the complex challenges today. Disrupting Injustice offers a framework to identify and respond to injustices both inside and outside of the classroom.

Prepare Your Students to Become Global Citizens

Modernizing mathematics refers to the idea that teachers should rethink how mathematics has traditionally been taught in schools by making rich tasks and collaboration the focus of instruction and promoting opportunities for active learning. Modern Math Tasks to Provoke Transformational Thinking presents carefully crafted tasks that nurture multi-disciplinary literacies. These innovative tasks bridge the gap between traditional siloed education and daily real-world problems. By emphasizing mathematical modeling, data analysis, and cross-disciplinary thinking, they empower students to tackle complex issues and become global citizens ready to shape a brighter future.

In Proactive Mathematics Coaching: Bridging Content, Context, and Practice, the authors introduce the Proactive Coaching Framework– PCF – to help those in formal and informal mathematics leadership positions intentionally refine and advance their practice through goal setting and planning for professional learning.

Develop research-based mathematics assessment and RTI model (MTSS) interventions in your PLC

This second edition guides you and your collaborative teams in building student and collective teacher efficacy through the formative use of common assessments. Discover how you can work interdependently to design high-quality assessments, calibrate scoring of student work, and analyze data to enhance instructional practices and sustain effective Tier 2 learning experiences for students. New and enhanced protocols and examples provide practical tools and models for immediate implementation.

Develop a standards-based curriculum for teaching student-centered mathematics

This second edition of the popular Mathematics Instruction and Tasks book guides preK–12 teacher teams in ensuring improved mathematics achievement. Gain new and enhanced understanding of research-affirmed instructional routines and learn how to efficiently elicit high levels of student engagement and self-efficacy.

Leverage formative assessment in mathematics every single day

For fans of the bestselling book The Formative 5: Everyday Assessment Techniques for Every Math Classroom comes this updated and expanded edition for understanding and implementing highly effective, research-backed formative assessment techniques into seamless, daily practice with students in grades K-12. The Formative 5 in Action serves as an interactive guide that steers teachers toward successful implementation of the formative five techniques of observation, interviews, Show Me, hinge questions, and exit tasks.

Embark on another journey of discovery alongside Notice and Wonder, as they explore the beauty and intricacy of our nation’s capital.

Challenge students to spot this dynamic duo in their adventures to some of Washington DC’s most infamous and historical landmarks. Use the prompts to encourage students to make meaning of images in a way that makes sense to them and help them to discover that math exists everywhere in the world around us.

The expanded second edition of the best-selling The Impact of Identity in K-8 Mathematics: Rethinking Equity-Based Practices invites elementary and secondary teachers of mathematics to reflect on their own and their students’ identities that impact how students experience learning mathematics. Rich possibilities for learning result when teachers draw on these identities in asset-based ways to offer high-quality, equity-based teaching to all students, especially those who have been marginalized by race, ethnicity, class, language, and gender. The book offers five equity-based practices that help educators to re-envisions mathematics learning and teaching in light of beliefs and structures, curriculum and instruction, and family and community partnerships across K-12, including:

• Going Deep with the Mathematics
• Leveraging multiple mathematical competencies
• Affirming mathematics learners’ identities
• Challenging spaces of marginality
• Drawing on multiple resources of knowledge

The second edition features new and revised content, including a new instruction analysis tool for the five equity-based practices and four additional chapters.

Expected Release Date: January 2024