By John Lannin, Kathryn Chval, Dustin Jones, Barbara
Dougherty
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 and making
sense of multiplication and division.
This book focuses on the specialized pedagogical content knowledge that you
need to teach multiplication and division effectively in grades 3-5. The
authors demonstrate how to use this multifaceted knowledge to address the big
ideas and essential understandings that students must develop for success with
these computations -- not only in their current work, but also in higher-level
math and a myriad of real-world contexts.
Explore rich, research-based strategies and tasks that show how students are
reasoning about and making sense of multiplication and division. Use the
opportunities that these and similar tasks provide to build on their
understanding while identifying and correcting misunderstandings that may be
keeping them from taking the next steps in learning.
About the Series:
You have essential understanding. It’s time to put it into practice in your
teaching.
The Putting Essential Understanding into Practice Series moves NCTM’s
Essential Understanding Series into the classroom. The new series details and
explores best practices for teaching the essential ideas that students must
grasp about fundamental topics in mathematics—topics that are challenging to
learn and teach but are critical to the development of mathematical
understanding.
Classroom vignettes and samples of student work bring each topic to life, and
questions for reader refl¬ection open it up for hands-on exploration. Each
volume underscores connections with the Common Core State Standards for
Mathematics while highlighting the knowledge of learners, curriculum,
understanding into practice, instructional strategies, and assessment that
pedagogical content knowledge entails. Resources and tasks are available at www.nctm.org/more4U.
Maximize the potential of student-centered learning and teaching by
putting essential understanding into practice.