Dig into problem solving and reflect on current teaching practices with this exceptional resource. Meaningful instructional tools and methods are provided to help teachers understand each problem solving strategy and how to use it with their students. Teachers are given opportunities to practice problems themselves and reflect on how they can better integrate problem solving into their instruction. This resource supports College and Career Readiness Standards.

Help your students to think critically and creatively through team-based problem solving instead of focusing on testing and outcomes. Professionals throughout the education system are recognizing that standardized testing is holding students back. Schools tend to view children as outcomes rather than as individuals who require guidance on thinking critically and creatively. Awesome Math focuses on team-based problem solving to teach discrete mathematics, a subject essential for success in the STEM careers of the future. Built on the increasingly popular growth mindset, this timely book emphasizes a problem-solving approach for developing the skills necessary to think critically, creatively, and collaboratively. In its current form, math education is a series of exercises: straightforward problems with easily-obtained answers. Problem solving, however, involves multiple creative approaches to solving meaningful and interesting problems. The authors, co-founders of the multi-layered educational organization AwesomeMath, have developed an innovative approach to teaching mathematics that will enable educators to: Move their students beyond the calculus trap to study the areas of mathematics most of them will need in the modern world Show students how problem solving will help them achieve their educational and career goals and form lifelong communities of support and collaboration Encourage and reinforce curiosity, critical thinking, and creativity in their students Get students into the growth mindset, coach math teams, and make math fun again Create lesson plans built on problem based learning and identify and develop educational resources in their schools Awesome Math: Teaching Mathematics with Problem Based Learning is a must-have resource for general education teachers and math specialists in grades 6 to 12, and resource specialists, special education teachers, elementary educators, and other primary education professionals.

NCTM's Process Standards support teaching that helps children develop independent, effective mathematical thinking. The books in the Heinemann Math Process Standards Series give every primary teacher the opportunity to explore each standard in depth. With language and examples that don't require prior math training to understand, the series offers friendly, reassuring advice and ready-to-use examples to any teacher ready to embrace the Process Standards. In Introduction to Problem Solving, Susan O'Connell highlights practical techniques for making problem solving doable for your students. O'Connell eases you into problem solving, giving you an array of entry points for understanding, planning, and teaching, including strategies that help students develop the mathematical thinking necessary to discover effective approaches for solving a wide range of math problems. The book and accompanying online resources are filled with activities that are modifiable for immediate use with students of all levels customizable to match your specific lessons. In addition, a correlation guide helps you match the math content you teach with the mathematical processes it utilizes. If problem solving is a problem you'd like to solve, or if you're simply looking for new ways to work the problem-solving standards into your curriculum, read, dog-ear, and teach with Introduction to Problem Solving. And if you'd like to learn about any of NCTM's process standards, or if you're looking for new, classroom-tested ways to address them in your math teaching, look no further than Heinemann's Math Process Standards Series. You'll find them explained in the most understandable and practical way: from one teacher to another.

The term problem-solving sounds scary. Who wants problems? Why do we want to subject ourselves and youngsters to problems? The word problem comes from the word probe, meaning inquiry. Inquiry is a much friendlier idea. Rather than attack a problem that has been given to us, let us accept an invitation to inquire into and to explore an interesting opportunity. Even toddlers can excel at inquiring, exploring, and investigating the world around them!PROBLEM-SOLVING TECHNIQUESSuccessful FlailingDo SomethingWishful ThinkingThe Power of DrawingMake It SmallEliminate Incorrect ChoicesPerseverance Is KeySecond-Guess the AuthorAvoid Hard WorkGo to the Xtremes

I DO - WE DO - YOU DO: An RTI Intervention for Math Problem Solving (Grades 1-5) is a ready-made intervention based on best practices and current research for students struggling with the underlying thought processes and step-by-step procedures of math problem solving. Each section includes a Universal Screening, data point assessments, and intervention cards which can be copied and used with individual students or small groups of students. The 'I DO-WE DO-YOU DO' intervention takes the guess work out of how to intervene with students at-risk of failure and provides teachers with the tools necessary to meet their individual needs. A total of 36 problem solving cards are included for each grade 1-5 and follow three simple steps: 1) Teacher models, 2) Teacher/student work collaboratively, and 3) Student completes independently. Detailed directions, progress monitoring graphs, and a scoring rubric are included, making the analysis of data easy to record and understand. Also available in spiral bound at lulu.com.

NCTM's Process Standards were designed to support teaching that helps children develop independent, effective mathematical thinking. The books in the Heinemann Math Process Standards Series give every elementary teacher the opportunity to explore each one of the standards in depth. And with language and examples that don't require prior math training to understand, the series offers friendly, reassuring advice to any teacher preparing to embrace the Process Standards. Each title contains powerful tools to help you get started: plans for lessons that help students internalize each standard advice, ideas, and teaching tips that show you ways to make the standards a central part of your instruction and your students' learning assessment strategies to monitor student progress with each standard a CD-ROM with activities customizable to match your lessons a correlation guide that helps you match each aspect of mathematical content to the processes it utilizes The CD-ROM that accompanies each title in The Math Process Standards Series includes tools to help you take what you learn from the book and turn it into classroom practice right away. Each is filled with activities that refer to specific types of problems detailed in the book, problems that target the concepts, knowledge, and applications necessary to internalize each process standard and make it part of students' mathematical repertoire. Best of all, the activities on the CD-ROM are fully customizable, allowing you to adjust them to the particulars of your math teaching, your students, and your curriculum.

NCTM's Process Standards were designed to support teaching that helps children develop independent, effective mathematical thinking. The books in the Heinemann Math Process Standards Series give every elementary teacher the opportunity to explore each one of the standards in depth. And with language and examples that don't require prior math training to understand, the series offers friendly, reassuring advice to any teacher preparing to embrace the Process Standards. Each title contains powerful tools to help you get started: plans for lessons that help students internalize each standard advice, ideas, and teaching tips that show you ways to make the standards a central part of your instruction and your students' learning assessment strategies to monitor student progress with each standard a CD-ROM with activities customizable to match your lessons a correlation guide that helps you match each aspect of mathematical content to the processes it utilizes The CD-ROM that accompanies each title in The Math Process Standards Series includes tools to help you take what you learn from the book and turn it into classroom practice right away. Each is filled with activities that refer to specific types of problems detailed in the book, problems that target the concepts, knowledge, and applications necessary to internalize each process standard and make it part of students' mathematical repertoire. Best of all, the activities on the CD-ROM are fully customizable, allowing you to adjust them to the particulars of your math teaching, your students, and your curriculum.