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Teaching elementary math can be challenging, especially as methods evolve from traditional approaches. Today, a student-centered learning model enhances engagement, motivation, and academic achievement. This approach shifts the teacher's role from merely delivering knowledge to fostering critical thinking, ensuring every student has the opportunity to learn and develop a positive math identity. Whether you are new to teaching or a seasoned educator facing difficulties, this guide serves as a practical resource for immediate support. It offers concise, actionable answers to common questions about teaching elementary math, drawing from the experiences of four seasoned math educators. Their insights, gained through years of practice, research, and collaboration, provide the guidance they wish they had earlier in their careers. The questions are organized into five key areas: building a positive math community, structuring and managing your class, engaging students, facilitating math discussions, and assessing student understanding. Additionally, the guide includes sidebar notes on fostering identity and agency, ensuring access and equity, and adapting to various teaching settings. The final section offers advice on continuing your professional growth. Embrace the journey to becoming an exceptional math educator—your students are counting on you! What will be your first step?

Because fluency practice is not a worksheet. The landmark book Figuring Out Fluency in Mathematics Teaching and Learning offered educators the inspiration to develop a deeper understanding of procedural fluency, along with a plethora of pragmatic tools for shifting classrooms toward a fluency approach. Now, teachers have the chance to apply that inspiration through explicit instruction and practice every day with the classroom companion Figuring Out Fluency: Multiplication and Division with Whole Numbers. With this book, teachers can: - Dive deeper into the Significant Strategies for fluency explained in the anchor book - Learn how these strategies grow from and relate to the basic fact strategies children learn - Access over 100 strategy-aligned and classroom-ready activities for fluency instruction and practice in multiplying and dividing multi-digit whole numbers, including worked examples, routines, games, and centers - Find activities for assessing all components of multiplication and division fluency plus support for engaging families - Download all of the needed support tools, game boards, and other resources from the companion website for immediate implementation.

Because fluency practice is not a worksheet.The landmark book Figuring Out Fluency in Mathematics Teaching and Learning offered educators the inspiration to develop a deeper understanding of procedural fluency, along with a plethora of pragmatic tools for shifting classrooms toward a fluency approach. Now, teachers have the chance to apply that inspiration through explicit instruction and practice every day with the classroom companion Figuring Out Addition and Subtraction with Whole Numbers . With this book, teachers • Dive deeper into the Significant Strategies for fluency explained in the anchor book• Learn how these strategies grow from and relate to the basic fact strategies children learn • Access over 100 strategy-aligned and classroom-ready activities for fluency instruction and practice in adding and subtracting multi-digit whole numbers, including worked examples, routines, games, and centers• Find activities for assessing all components of addition and subtraction fluency plus support for engaging families • Download all of the needed support tools, game boards, and other resources from the companion website for immediate implementation. 

"This book takes aim to embrace, support, and develop productive struggle in mathematics. It provides five specific actions as part of a game plan that enables all K-12 mathematics teachers and leaders to help their learners struggle productively and persevere to success. The book is organized around these core actions, each framed as a chapter. The actions are: value productive struggle; build identity and classroom community to support productive struggle; plan for productive struggle; support struggle in the moment to keep it productive; reflect on struggle"--