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Differentiating Instruction
with Menus: Math
 By Laurie E. Westphal This series offers teachers everything needed to create a student-centered learning environment based on choice. Each book contains attractive reproducible menus, based on the levels of Bloom's Revised taxonomy, for students to use to guide them in making decisions as to which products they will develop after studying a major concept or unit. Also included are specific guidelines for products, rubrics for assessing student projects, and teacher introduction pages for each menu. This series is a must-have for any teacher wanting to differentiate for gifted and advanced learners. (3 volume series: K-2, 3-5, 6-8)
Call Number: CMT127
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Teaching Student-Centered Mathematics Grades 5-8 
By Joh A. Van de WalleWith almost 200 grade-appropriate activities, this volume offers brand-new material specifically written for the middle grades. The expanded grade-specific coverage and unique page design allow readers to quickly and easily locate information to implement in the classroom. The student-centered, problem-based approach will help students develop real understanding and confidence in mathematics.
Call Number: CMT126
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About Teaching Mathematics: a K-8 Resource, 3rd ed.
By Marilyn Burns
Containing more than 240 classroom-tested activities, this comprehensive text helps teachers teach math to build students' understanding and skills; understand the math they are responsible for teaching; and understand how children learn math. This third edition provides teachers with the guidance they need to make appropriate and effective instructional decisions. It is essential reading for new, experienced, and preservice K-8 teachers.
Call Number: CMT125
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Connecting Arithmetic to Algebra: Strategies for Building Algebraic Thinking in the Elementary Grades
How can educators help all students succeed in the mathematics they are studying in the elementary grades and become ready for later instruction? The answers lie not in studying additional content, but in developing ways of thinking that underlie both arithmetic and algebra. This resource will demonstrate how teachers can help students become familiar with properties and general rules that underlie computational strategies--including those that form the basis of strategies used in algebra--thereby strengthening their understanding of grade-level content and preparing them for future studies.
Call Number: CMT124
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Algebra and the Elementary Classroom: Transforming Thinking, Transforming Practice  By Maria L. Blanton
This resource shares ideas, tasks, and practices for integrating algebraic thinking into your daily teaching. Through research-based and classroom-tested strategies, it demonstrates how to use materials you have on hand to prepare students for formula algebra instruction--without adding to your overstuffed curriculum. Clear descriptions show you what algebraic thinking is and how to teach it; sample problems deepen your own algebraic thinking. Best of all, it gives you ideas for grade-specific instructional planning.
Call Number: CMT123
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Young Mathematicians at Work: Constructing Algebra
By Catherine Twomey FosnotThis resource provides a landscape of learning that helps teachers recognize, support, and celebrate their students' capacity to structure their worlds algebraically. It identifies for teachers the models, contexts, and landmarks that facilitate algebraic thinking in young students. This volume will be a welcome resource for classroom teachers, math supervisors, and curriculum coordinators alike and provides the insightful and practical methods from a trusted source for teaching mathematics to young students from K through grade 8.
Call Number: CMT122
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