| Record Number |
20347 |
| ISBN |
9781119358718 |
| 111935871X |
| Item Number |
99977136762 |
| Location |
372.7 BOA |
| Author |
Boaler, Jo, 1964- (author.). |
| Title |
Mindset mathematics : visualizing and investigating big ideas, grade 5 / Jo Boaler, Jen Munson, Cathy Williams. |
| Published |
San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, A Wiley brand, 2018. |
| Collation |
v, 295 pages ; 28 cm. |
| General Note |
Includes index. |
| Grades 3, 4, 6, 7 & 8 also available. |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 a Skeptic -- Big Idea 1 Thinking in Cubes -- Visualize: Solids, Inside and Out -- Play: City of Cubes -- Investigate: A Box of Boxes -- Big Idea 2 Estimating with Fractions -- Visualize: Making Snowflakes -- Play: Fraction Blizzard -- Investigate: Wondering with Fractions -- Big Idea 3 Using Fraction Equivalence -- Visualize: Picking Paintings Apart -- Play: Make a Fake -- Investigate: Squares with a Difference -- Big Idea 4 Exploring the Coordinate Plane -- Visualize: Getting around the Plane -- Play: Ship Shape -- Investigate: Table Patterns -- Big Idea 5 Seeing and Connecting Patterns across Representations -- Visualize: Two-Pattern Tango -- |
| Contents note continued: Play: Pattern Carnival -- Investigate: Seeing Growth on a Graph -- Big Idea 6 Understanding Fraction Multiplication Visually -- Visualize: Fractions in a Pan -- Play: Pieces and Parts -- Investigate: The Sum of the Parts -- Big Idea 7 What Does It Mean to Divide Fractions? -- Visualize: Creating Cards -- Play: Cuisenaire Trains -- Investigate: Fraction Division Conundrum -- Big Idea 8 Thinking in Powers of 10 -- Visualize: The Unit You -- Play: Filling Small and Large -- Investigate: Museum of the Very Large and Small -- Big Idea 9 Using Numbers and Symbols Flexibly -- Visualize: Seeing Expressions -- Play: Inside Pascal's Triangle -- Investigate: The 1492 Problem -- Appendix -- Centimeter Dot Paper -- Isometric Dot Paper. |
| Summary Note |
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 fifth-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 mathematics 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. |
| Subject |
EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Mathematics |
| Games in mathematics education |
| Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Activity programs |
| Fifth grade (Education) |
| Added Name |
Munson, Jen,1977-, (author). |
| Williams, Cathy,1962-, (author). |
