Balancing Math Instruction: Book Practical Ways to Effectively Implement the Math Common Core

by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Overview

The United States has been plagued for decades by two traditional approaches prominent in math classrooms. Students lose out when math teaching emphasizes a set of procedures for students’ use without conceptual understanding, and covers material to prepare for a test or meet a pacing guide without concern for student understanding.

Balancing Mathematics Instruction provides an effective strategy for schools to change math instruction in preparation for the Common Core State Standards. These practices emphasize a student-centered classroom environment that promotes four instructional areas to “balance” out textbook- and standards-driven teaching: computational strength, number sense, problem solving, and conceptual understanding. The content of the book and the accompanying DVD, an integral visual resource illustrating the practices in action in actual classrooms, describes these four instructional areas and how to implement them in the classroom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935588436
Publisher:	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date:	10/07/2013
Series:	Balancing Math Instruction Series
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jan Christinson conducts seminars based on publications he co-authored, Five Easy Steps to a Balanced Math Program and Student Generated Rubrics: An Assessment Model to Help All Students Succeed. Jan’s primary goal is to improve classroom instruction and student learning.