Sizing Up Measurement: Activities for Grades K-2 Classrooms
Expert teachers share a wealth of classroom-tested lessons that help students understand why and how to measure length, area, capacity, weight, time, and temperature. The book provides engaging real-world contexts to help students understand what it means to measure, using standard and nonstandard units. The lessons emphasize connections between two or more measurement topics and include connections to other disciplines, such as literature, social studies, or science.
Math For All: Differentiating Instruction, Grades K-2
In this two-book series, teachers will find powerful strategies for adapting mathematical lessons and tasks to address the wide range of abilities, interests, and learning styles of the students in their classrooms. Each book in this research-based series contains a wealth of activities tailored to its particular K-2 or 3-5 grade span. The authors provide numerous differentiated tasks ready for classroom implementation, as well as guidance in managing differentiated lessons and strategies for providing and structuring choice with the classroom.
Math For All: Differentiating Instruction, Grades 3-5
In this two-book series, teachers will find powerful strategies for adapting mathematical lessons and tasks to address the wide range of abilities, interests, and learning styles of the students in their classrooms. Each book in this research-based series contains a wealth of activities tailored to its particular K-2 or 3-5 grade span. The authors provide numerous differentiated tasks ready for classroom implementation, as well as guidance in managing differentiated lessons and strategies for providing and structuring choice with the classroom.
This new addition to the Math, Literature, and Nonfiction series helps teachers build on their students' natural passion for knowledge as they engage in real-world mathematical problem solving. The lessons in this book use nonfiction as a springboard to explore mathematical concepts key to the middle school curriculum. The lessons inspire students to collect and analyze data, use proportional reasoning, and explore probability, relationships between two-and three-dimensional objects, pi, and more.
Lessons in Electric Circuits was compiled from years of lecture notes and ideas, with the primary goal was to put readable, high-quality information of industrial electronics into the hands of students, yet keep the book as affordable as possible. This book was written to be a good enough book without delving too heavy on the math, while still maintaining a lot of important information.
