| Record Number |
20346 |
| ISBN |
9781119358800 |
| 1119358809 |
| Location |
372.7 BOA |
| Author |
Boaler, Jo, 1964- (author.). |
| Title |
Mindset mathematics : visualizing and investigating big ideas, grade 4 / Jo Boaler, Jen Munson, Cathy Williams. |
| Edition |
First edition. |
| Published |
San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, a Wiley Brand, 2017. |
| Collation |
v, 263 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. |
| General Note |
Includes index. |
| Grade 4. |
| Grades 3, 5, 6, 7 & 8 also available. |
| Contents Note |
Contents note: Low-Floor, High-Ceiling Tasks -- Youcubed Summer Camp -- Memorization versus Conceptual Engagement -- Mathematical Thinking, Reasoning, and Convincing -- Big Ideas -- Structure of the Book -- Activities for Building Norms -- Encouraging Good Group Work -- Paper Folding: Learning to Reason, Convince, and Be Skeptical -- Paper Folding: Learning to Reason, Convince, and Be a Skeptic -- Big Idea 1 Seeing Patterns inside Numbers -- Visualize: Visualizing Numbers -- Play: What Could It Be? -- Investigate: How Flexible Is a Number? -- Big Idea 2 Building and Designing with Shapes and Angles -- Visualize: Tile It! -- Play: Those Crazy Rep-Tiles -- Investigate: Polyiamonds -- Big Idea 3 Making and Naming Number Patterns -- Visualize: Finding Fibonacci -- Play: Pattern Carnival -- Investigate: All Hail! -- Big Idea 4 Units Are a Relationship -- Visualize: It's All in the Axes -- Play: Measure Up -- Investigate: 10,000 Steps -- |
| Contents note continued: Big Idea 5 Modeling with Unit Fractions -- Visualize: Perplexing Measures -- Play: Tangram Designs -- Investigate: Pixeled Fractions -- Big Idea 6 Exploring Fraction Equivalence -- Visualize: Painting Pieces -- Play: Color-Coding Fractions -- Investigate: Tiling Rectangles -- Big Idea 7 Illustrating Multiplication and Division -- Visualize: Visual Proof -- Play: Cover the Field -- Investigate: Turning It Inside Out: What's the Missing Side? -- Big Idea 8 Using Operations Flexibly -- Visualize: How Crowded Is the Crowd? -- Play: Target 20 -- Investigate: Supply Parade -- Big Idea 9 What Is a Decimal? -- Visualize: Finding the Better Deal -- Play: Decimals on a Line -- Investigate: Can You Make It? -- Appendix -- Centimeter Dot Paper -- Isometric Dot Paper -- Grid Paper -- 1/4" Dot Paper -- 1/4" Grid Paper -- Hundred Grids. |
| Summary Note |
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 fourth-grade level through visualization, play, and investigation. --Amazon.com. |
| Subject |
Games in mathematics education |
| Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Activity programs |
| Fourth grade (Education) |
| Added Name |
Munson, Jen,1977-, (author). |
| Williams, Cathy,1953-, (author). |
| Williams, Cathy,1962-, (author). |
