Teaching and Learning Mathematics

Designed to support teachers as they build mathematical understanding, strengthen students’ abilities to think, help students make sense of mathematics, and assist students in attaining computational fluency. Emphasizes problem posing and problem solving, and encourages teachers to invite children to use their own higher-level thinking processes, including mental calculation and estimation.

1. Preparing to Teach Mathematics 2. Children and Mathematics 3. Organizing for Mathematics Instruction 4. Reasoning, Solving, Posing and Extended Problems 5. Attaching Meaning to Numbers 6. Teaching and Learning Addition and Subtraction of Whole Numbers and Integers 7. Teaching and Learning Multiplication and Division of Whole Numbers and Integers 8. Attaching Meaning to Rational Numbers 9. Teaching and Learning Operations with Rational Numbers 10. Teaching and Learning Algebra 11. Teaching and Learning Geometry 12. Teaching and Learning Measurement 13. Teaching and Learning Data Analysis and Probability Appendix A Suppliers of Manipulative Materials, Books, Calculators, and Computer Software Appendix B Blackline Masters Index