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Teaching Student-Centered Mathematics: Grades 3-5 Volume 2(Teaching Student-Centered Mathematics Series)

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A professor recommended Van de Walle's books to me so I bought this one. This book explains how to teach math so that students build on existing knowledge, rather than learn sets of algorithms without understanding their meaning. It offers a range of specific lessons for all math topics for grades 5 - 8, it explains how to teach the same topics to diverse learners, how to teach to the standards. It comes with amazing templates that are downloadable. It shows you how to take advantage of your existing math textbook, supplementing it to make it more student-focused.

Van de Walle breaks down problem based classrooms in an understandable format. This book really helps teachers hone their skills in hands on/problem based teaching for mathematics. There are lots of activities to help you teach your students. This book is a must have for 5-8 Mathematics teachers.

I like this book, I own both K-2 & 3-5. There's alot of overlap so I recommend which ever age group you would use it with more.

Very worthwhile purchase for anyone who teaches math to intermediate students. The suggested activities are not found in any other math books I have seen and should help create math learners who are not "formula" driven.

This is required text for my teaching degree this year. It's an excellent book, which covers all curriculum areas in mathematics. It explains how children learn and understand, covers the stages of children's learning, provides practical activities to do, assists in finding relationships/connections to past learning and includes lesson planning and assessment. It is very comprehensive yet written in a way which makes it easy for anyone to read and understand. I highly recommend it for parents and teachers alike.

Great book. My entire staff is reading this book and beginning to implement some of the lessons from the book. The first chapter alone should be read by every person teaching Mathematics. It really helps teachers think about why we teach the way we do, how kids develop an understanding of Math and why we have to do things differently.

This is a must for a math teacher. Using the activities help students understand the concept and the why behind it:)

I would highly recommend this book to all teachers. The activities are really practical and the differentiation ideas have worked really with my class including the gifted students. So far I have been accessing the ideas around developing fraction concepts (in my opinion usually rushed to get to calculating with fractions). The ideas are not new but really well structured and the thinking behind them thoughtfully explained. I have been teaching for many years and have a passion for math education but I have to say I don't think I've ever taught fractions as well before.

Unlike many of the textbooks that I had to purchase for teachers college, this is one that I will actually keep and use in the classroom.

I use this to plan my lesson for junior high students. Yes, I sometimes need to tweak them, but they are excellent. The focus on the objective. Make sure that the objectives match your purpose. Do not do activities that do not increase the retention of the objective.