Language and communication are important to mathematics just as they are to the other content areas. Mathematical Literacy is a powerful resource that introduces you to a wide spectrum of strategies and approaches for building students' facility in mathematical communication. Mathematical Literacy demonstrates how immersion in the language of math supports improved learning through traditional communication skills such as: <ul>
<li>reading</li> <li>writing </li> <li>speaking</li> <li>listening</li> </ul> as well as math-specific communication skills, including: <ul>
<li>symbolizing</li> <li>graphing</li> <li>creating diagrams</li> <li>using tables.</li> </ul> It provides everything you need to increase the presence of mathematical language in your classroom, guiding you through the ample research base and theoretical underpinnings supporting its ideas, demonstrating implementation through detailed classroom vignettes, and presenting ready-to-use tools and activities that connect theory directly to practice. Whether you are an individual preservice or practicing teacher, part of a teacher book-study group, or creating whole-staff professional learning, Mathematical Literacy promotes professional learning with questions interspersed throughout that encourage reflection and prompt you to action. It offers many paths for teachers to take as they help students to improve their use of mathematical language and grow as mathematicians. Help every student become fluent readers, speakers, and writers of mathematics. Read Mathematical Literacy and give young adolescents new ways to explain their reasoning, make connections, debate their thinking with peers, and share their struggles - in short to understand mathematics deeply.

Mathematical Literacy: Helping Students Make Meaning in the Middle Grades

Education & Teaching

Richards, Janet

Kersaint, Gladis

Thompson, Denisse R.

Hunsader, Patricia

Rubenstein, Rheta

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

NCTM's Process Standards support teaching that helps students develop independent, effective mathematical thinking. The books in the Heinemann Math Process Standards Series give every middle grades math teacher the opportunity to explore each standard in depth. The series offers friendly, reassuring advice and ready-to-use examples to any teacher ready to embrace the Process Standards. In Introduction to Reasoning and Proof, Denisse Thompson and Karren Schultz-Ferrell familiarize you with ways to help students explore their reasoning and support their mathematical thinking. They offer an array of entry points for understanding, planning, and teaching, including strategies for encouraging middle grades students to describe their reasoning about mathematical activities. Thompson and Schultz-Ferrell also provide methods for questioning students about their conclusions and their thought processes in ways that help support classroom-wide learning. The book and accompanying CD-ROM are filled with activities that are 
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modifiable for immediate use with students of all levels </li> <li>
customizable to match your specific lessons. </li> </ul> In addition, a correlation guide helps you match the math content you teach with the mathematical processes it utilizes. If your students could benefit from more opportunities to develop their reasoning about math concepts, or if you're simply looking for new ways to work the reasoning and proof standards into your curriculum, read, dog-ear, and teach with Introduction to Reasoning and Proof. 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.

Introduction to Reasoning and Proof, Grades 6-8 (Math Process Standards Gr 6-8)

O'Connell, Susan

Schultz-Ferrell, Karren

Children's Books

Realizing that middle-grades students bring to classrooms different experiences that shape their meaning about mathematics, both from inside and outside the classroom, it seems that embracing culture…is one important way to address a need in schools - that is, high achievement in mathematics by all students. - Michaele Chappell and Denisse Thompson If your students can text like this: cul8r bff, they can solve for this: 3x+5=39+2x In the middle grades personal identity becomes more important to learning than ever. More than a decade of research tells us that effective school mathematics has to be relevant to the lives and cultures of every student. Chappell and Thompson bring you a unique and user-friendly teacher resource that incorporates popular media from a variety of cultures in rich and engaging math investigations. A wide range of math concepts - from algebraic thinking to number and operation, geometry to probability - are embedded within dynamic activities. Engage your media-savvy students with investigations from popular films, games, literature, and the internet. Connect your students to stories from African American, Latino, Asian, and Native American cultures. Activities are ready to use or customizable for your classroom. CD-ROM includes: <ul>
<li>90+ reproducible investigations with answer keys available as customizable Word documents</li> <li>Quick-reference matrix that cross references the activities by the five content strands of the Principles and Standards for School Mathematics from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and by the four cultural groups.</li> </ul> You can bring middle school math to life for all your students. This resource, ready to supplement your existing curriculum, shows you how and why to do it!

Math, Culture, and Popular Media: Activities to Engage Middle School Students Through Film, Literature, and the In ternet

Science & Math

Chappell, Michaele F

Mathematics

Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners (Teaching English Language Learners across the Curriculum)

Today's mathematics classrooms increasingly include students for whom English is a second language. Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners provides readers a comprehensive understanding of both the challenges that face English language learners (ELLs) and ways in which educators might address them in the secondary mathematics classroom. Framed by a research perspective, Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners presents practical instructional strategies for engaging learners that can be incorporated as a regular part of instruction. The authors offer context-specific strategies for everything from facilitating classroom discussions with all students, to reading and interpreting math textbooks, to tackling word problems. A fully annotated list of math web and print resources completes the volume, making this a valuable reference to help mathematics teachers meet the challenges of including all learners in effective instruction. Features and updates to this new edition include: <ul>
<li>An updated and streamlined Part 1 provides an essential overview of ELL theory in a mathematics specific context. </li> </ul> <ul>
<li>Additional practical examples of mathematics problems and exercises make turning theory into practice easy when teaching ELLs</li> </ul> <ul>
<li>New pedagogical elements in Part 3 include tips on harnessing new technologies, discussion questions and reflection points.</li> </ul> <ul>
<li>New coverage of the Common Core State Standards, as well as updates to the web and print resources in Part 4. </li> </ul>

Petkova, Mariana

Routledge

Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners (Teaching English Language Learners Across the Curriculum)

Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners provides simple and straightforward advice on how to teach mathematics to the English Language Learners in the classroom. The authors offer context-specific strategies for everything from facilitating classroom discussions with all students, to reading and interpreting math textbooks, to tackling word problems. A fully annotated list of math web and print resources completes the volume, making this a valuable reference to help mathematics teachers meet the challenges of including all learners in effective instruction.

Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners provides simple and straightforward advice on how to teach mathematics to the English Language Learners in the classroom. The authors offer context-specific strategies for everything from facilitating classroom discussions with all students, to reading and interpreting math textbooks, to tackling word problems. A fully annotated list of math web and print resources completes the volume, making this a valuable reference to help mathematics teachers meet the challenges of including all learners in effective instruction.

A text for aspiring educators addressing needs and techniques relevant to mathematics instruction at the secondary level.

Teaching and Learning Middle Grades Mathematics

Rubenstein, Rheta N.

Beckmann, Charlene E.

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Transitioning between two worlds, students in the middle grades (4-9) are no longer elementary students but are not quite ready for the challenges of secondary school. The state departments of education are beginning to recognize that the preparation of teachers for these students must change. 
Teaching and Learning Middle Grades Mathematics is the ideal text for future teachers who are completing their pre-service instruction. Through readings, lessons, sample middle grades exercises, and more, future teachers learn to address the teaching and learning of algebraic and geometric thinking at the level appropriate for middle grades students. The lessons in this text follow a popular collaborative teaching method used in middle schools called Launch, Explore, Share and Summarize that involves very little lecturing, a lot of group work, and class discussions. Teaching and Learning Middle Grades Mathematics will serve as a life long resources to students, as each lesson is filled with student pages which are worksheets that can be modified for use in actual middle grades classrooms. The text comes packaged with a CD-ROM that will be a valuable resource, containing professional readings that correlate directly to the lessons in the text.

Teaching and Learning Middle Grades Mathematics, with Student Resource CD

wiley

Too many high school students, faced with mathematics in courses at the level of algebra and beyond, find themselves struggling with abstract concepts and unwilling to pursue further study of mathematics. When students curtail their course taking in mathematics, they may be impacting their college and career options. Thus, high school mathematics teachers have the responsibility to help students recognize the value and importance of mathematics while also designing instruction that makes mathematics accessible to all students. 
Ball and Bass (2000), as well as other mathematics educators, have recognized that mathematics teachers not only need to know mathematics content and mathematics pedagogy (i.e., teaching strategies) but they also need to know how these ideas are integrated. This mathematical knowledge for teaching is the knowledge that teachers of mathematics need and it differs from the knowledge that research or applied mathematicians must know. This text is designed to provide teachers with insights into this mathematical knowledge for teaching. Teaching and Learning High School Mathematics is likely different from many other texts that you have used. It integrates both content and pedagogy to help you develop and build your own understanding of teaching. The text is designed to help you develop “deep conceptual understanding of fundamental mathematics” (Ma 1999) so that you are able to approach mathematics from multiple perspectives with many tools. Such flexibility in teaching is essential if teachers are to help all students become mathematically proficient. Throughout this book, you are encouraged to work in cooperative teams. This strategy is designed to help you develop a mathematics learning community and build a professional network that will be a valuable resource during your professional career. Hopefully, you will experience the benefits of engaging in rich mathematical discussions with peers and consider how to encourage such learning environments in your own classrooms. Lesson planning is another element pervasive throughout this text. To help teachers plan for effective student-centered lessons, the Question Response Support (QRS) Guide is introduced in Lesson 1.1 and used throughout the remainder of the lessons. The QRS Guide is a tool on which teachers may record tasks or questions (Q) for students, expected and observed student responses (R), and teacher support (S) in the form of additional “just enough” questions to support students in their progress on the task. In each unit, teachers expand their repertoire of teaching and learning elements and strategies and incorporate these elements as they plan additional lesson segments. In Unit 4 lesson planning is formally introduced as teachers put together elements from previous units into complete, cohesive lesson plans.

Teaching and Learning High School Mathematics

Problem solving and reasoning are students' processes of actively applying what they know to new problems from diverse areas of mathematics. Knowing a variety of mathematical ideas is insufficient unless students can draw on, integrate, and use them to solve challenging, complex problems. The Navigating through Problem Solving and Reasoning books for grades 3-6 present hands-on investigations that nurture reasoning and problem-solving strategies in each of the upper elementary grades. In lively and challenging investigations for grade 6, students have opportunities to reason about parts of a whole, analyze patterns of growth, discover area formulas for familiar shapes, explore scale factors and similar figures, and analyze a set of data to solve a real-world problem: how to arrange competitors in teams for an athletic festival. Students apply mathematical ideas from the five main content areas -- number, algebra, geometry, measurement, and data analysis. As they work, they infer, generalize, reason by analogy, recognize relationships, and make representations, and they also predict, check, and revise and verify their results. Includes a supplemental CD-ROM that features applets for students' use and resources for teachers' professional development.

Navigating Through Problem Solving and Reasoning in Grade 6

Battista, Michael T.

Yeatts, Karol L.

Zawojewski, Judith S.

Mayberry, Sally

Natl Council of Teachers of

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Mathematical Literacy: Helping Students Make Meaning in the Middle Grades

Introduction to Reasoning and Proof, Grades 6-8 (Math Process Standards Gr 6-8)

Math, Culture, and Popular Media: Activities to Engage Middle School Students Through Film, Literature, and the In ternet

Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners (Teaching English Language Learners across the Curriculum)

Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners (Teaching English Language Learners Across the Curriculum)

Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners (Teaching English Language Learners Across the Curriculum)

Teaching and Learning Middle Grades Mathematics

Teaching and Learning Middle Grades Mathematics, with Student Resource CD

Teaching and Learning High School Mathematics

Navigating Through Problem Solving and Reasoning in Grade 6