Mindset Mathematics: Visualizing and Investigating Big Ideas, Grade K
- Length: 256 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Jossey-Bass
- Publication Date: 2020-08-25
- ISBN-10: 1119357608
- ISBN-13: 9781119357605
- Sales Rank: #106519 (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 at the kindergarten-grade level 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 engagement, with tasks that reflect the latest brain science on learning. Open, creative, and visual math tasks have been shown to improve student test scores, 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 – anyone can learn mathematics to high levels.
- Mistakes, struggle and challenge are the most important times for brain growth.
- Speed is unimportant 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 Introduction Low-Floor, High-Ceiling Tasks Youcubed Summer Camp Memorization versus Conceptual Engagement Mathematical Thinking, Reasoning, and Convincing Big Ideas Structure of the Book A Note on the Structure of Kindergarten References Note on Materials BIG IDEA 1: Understanding the Physical Quantity of Number References Count a Collection References How Many Do You See? Reference Making a Counting Book References BIG IDEA 2: Using Fingers as Numbers References Feeling Fingers Reference Show Me with Your Fingers Hand Mirrors BIG IDEA 3: Talking about and Making Shapes Talking about Shapes References Make a Shape Building Blocks BIG IDEA 4: Seeing Numbers inside of Numbers Dot Talks References Snap It! Which Is More? BIG IDEA 5: Putting Numbers Together Reference Growing Bigger and Bigger References Roll the Dice Foot Parade BIG IDEA 6: Describing and Sorting Objects Sorting Supplies Sorting Emojis Sorting Buttons BIG IDEA 7: Seeing and Making Patterns Everywhere References A World of Patterns DIY Patterns Kinder Dance Party BIG IDEA 8: Stretching Counting toward 100 Counting Larger Collections Reference Making a Collection Hundred Chart Patterns Appendix Grid Paper About the Authors Acknowledgments Index End User License Agreement
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