Teaching And Learning Middle Grades Mathematics, With Student Resource CD

Teaching and Learning Middle Grades Mathematics, with Student Resource CD

Transitioning between two worlds, students in the middle grades(4-9) are no longer elementary students but are not quite ready forthe challenges of secondary school. The state departments ofeducation are beginning to recognize that the preparation ofteachers for these students must change.Teaching and Learning Middle Grades Mathematics is the ideal textfor future teachers who are completing their pre-serviceinstruction. Through readings, lessons, sample middle gradesexercises, and more, future teachers learn to address the teachingand learning of algebraic and geometric thinking at the levelappropriate for middle grades students. The lessons in this textfollow a popular collaborative teaching method used in middleschools called Launch, Explore, Share and Summarize that involvesvery little lecturing, a lot of group work, and class discussions.Teaching and Learning Middle Grades Mathematics will serve as alife long resources to students, as each lesson is filled withstudent pages which are worksheets that can be modified for use inactual middle grades classrooms. The text comes packaged with aCD-ROM that will be a valuable resource, containing professionalreadings that correlate directly to the lessons in the text.