Mindset Mathematics: Visualizing and Investigating Big Ideas, Grade 2
- Length: 288 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Jossey-Bass
- Publication Date: 2021-12-14
- ISBN-10: 1119358639
- ISBN-13: 9781119358633
- Sales Rank: #29291 (See Top 100 Books)
Engage students in mathematics using growth mindset techniques
The most challenging parts of teaching mathematics are engaging students and helping them understand the connections between mathematics concepts. In this volume, you’ll find a collection of low-floor, high-ceiling tasks that will help you do just that, by looking at the big ideas in second grade through visualization, play, and investigation.
During their work with tens of thousands of teachers, authors Jo Boaler, Jen Munson, and Cathy Williams heard the same message―that they want to incorporate more brain science into their math instruction, but they need guidance in the techniques that work best to get across the concepts they needed to teach. So, the authors designed Mindset Mathematics around the principle of active student inquiry, with tasks that reflect the latest brain science on learning. Open, creative, and visual math tasks have been shown to support student learning, and more importantly change their relationship with mathematics and start believing in their own potential. The tasks in Mindset Mathematics reflect the lessons from brain science that:
- There is no such thing as a math person and anyone can learn mathematics to high levels.
- Mistakes, struggle, and challenge are opportunities for brain growth.
- Speed is unimportant, and even counterproductive, in mathematics.
- Mathematics is a visual and beautiful subject, and our brains want to think visually about mathematics.
With engaging questions, open-ended tasks, and four-color visuals that will help kids get excited about mathematics, Mindset Mathematics is organized around nine big ideas which emphasize the connections within the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and can be used with any current curriculum.
Cover Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Dedication Introduction Low-Floor, High-Ceiling Tasks Youcubed Summer Camp Memorization versus Conceptual Engagement Mathematical Thinking, Reasoning, and Convincing Big Ideas Structure of the Book Note on Materials Manipulatives and Materials Used in This Book Activities for Building Norms Encouraging Good Group Work How Many Do You See? Learning to Reason, Convince, and Pose Questions BIG IDEA 1: Partitioning Shapes into Equal Parts Equal or Same? Four Fourths Rows and Columns BIG IDEA 2: Making and Using Equal Groups The Groups Inside Skipping down the Hall Array Museum BIG IDEA 3: What Is 100? The Many Ways to See 100 Scoop and Count Making a Dollar, Revisited BIG IDEA 4: Composing and Decomposing Numbers Array Talks Which Is More? Coin Grab BIG IDEA 5: Using Patterns in Place Value What's in Your 12? Reach for It! Window Mysteries BIG IDEA 6: Thinking on the Number Line Long Lives Life-Span Puzzles Living on the Number Line BIG IDEA 7: Rulers and Clocks Are Number Lines Noticing the Ruler and Clock Walking the Clock A Sea of Sharks BIG IDEA 8: Using Units to Estimate Foot by Foot Length Scavenger Hunt School-Day Walkabout BIG IDEA 9: Using Data to Visualize and Wonder about Our World Fruit around the World Eat Your Roots Dear Data Appendix About the Authors Acknowledgments Index End User License Agreement
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