Mindset mathematics : visualizing and investigating big ideas, grade 6 / Jo Boaler, Jen Munson, Cathy Williams.
2019
QA20.G35 B6296 2018eb
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Mindset mathematics : visualizing and investigating big ideas, grade 6 / Jo Boaler, Jen Munson, Cathy Williams.
Author
Boaler, Jo, 1964- author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781119358770 (electronic book)
1119358779 (electronic book)
9781119358671 (electronic book)
1119358671 (electronic book)
9781119358831
1119358779 (electronic book)
9781119358671 (electronic book)
1119358671 (electronic book)
9781119358831
Published
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2019]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (v, 266 pages) : illustrations
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QA20.G35 B6296 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
372.7/044
Summary
Engage students in mathematics using growth mindset techniques The most challenging parts of teaching mathematics are engaging students and helping them understand the connections between mathematics concepts. In this volume, you'll find a collection of low floor, high ceiling tasks that will help you do just that, by looking at the big ideas at the sixth-grade level through visualization, play, and investigation. During their work with tens of thousands of teachers, authors Jo Boaler, Jen Munson, and Cathy Williams heard the same message-that they want to incorporate more brain science into their math instruction, but they need guidance in the techniques that work best to get across the concepts they needed to teach. So the authors designed Mindset Mathematics around the principle of active student engagement, with tasks that reflect the latest brain science on learning. Open, creative, and visual math tasks have been shown to improve student test scores, and more importantly change their relationship with mathematics and start believing in their own potential. The tasks in Mindset Mathematics reflect the lessons from brain science that: -There is no such thing as a math person - anyone can learn mathematics to high levels. -Mistakes, struggle and challenge are the most important times for brain growth. -Speed is unimportant in mathematics. -Mathematics is a visual and beautiful subject, and our brains want to think visually about mathematics. With engaging questions, open-ended tasks, and four-color visuals that will help kids get excited about mathematics, Mindset Mathematics is organized around nine big ideas which emphasize the connections within the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and can be used with any current curriculum.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
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Activities for building norms
Big Idea 1: Taking apart prisms & polygons
Big Idea 2: Folding and unfolding objects
Big Idea 3: Expanding the number line
Big Idea 4: Finding and using unit rates
Big Idea 5: Reasoning with proportions
Big Idea 6: Visualizing the center and spread of data
Big Idea 7: Using symbols to describe the world
Big Idea 8: Generalizing.
Note on materials
Activities for building norms
Big Idea 1: Taking apart prisms & polygons
Big Idea 2: Folding and unfolding objects
Big Idea 3: Expanding the number line
Big Idea 4: Finding and using unit rates
Big Idea 5: Reasoning with proportions
Big Idea 6: Visualizing the center and spread of data
Big Idea 7: Using symbols to describe the world
Big Idea 8: Generalizing.