Math Thinking Mats for grade 1 reinforces standards-based math skills and improves higher-level thinking skills. This hands-on resource appeals to students by providing grade-appropriate activities that range from adding robotic gears to comparing numbers on a carnival ride. --Teach standards-based math skills using a format that engages students. With 80 pages of high-interest math activities, the Ready to Go: Math Thinking Mats series challenges students with grade-specific math practice. Made from durable card stock and featuring perforated pages, these color-coded activities are easy to organize, making them ideal for learning stations and centers. This resource can also be used to engage early finishers, develop independent learning skills, and support cooperative learning. --Perfect for reinforcing essential math skills, the Ready to Go: Math Thinking Mats series provides a convenient way to meet your studentsÕ academic needs. With customizable, open-ended practice activities, you can adjust these hands-on learning activities for independent or small group learning. Complete with a write-on/wipe-away surface, the game mats are designed to make teaching and learning standards-based math a fun and successful experience.

Teachers Resource Manual with lesson plans, assessment and reproducible reteaching pages

Because fluency practice is not a worksheet. Fluency in mathematics is more than adeptly using basic facts or implementing algorithms. Real fluency involves reasoning and creativity, and it varies by the situation at hand. Figuring Out Fluency in Mathematics Teaching and Learning offers 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. In a friendly and accessible style, this hands-on guide empowers educators to support students in acquiring the repertoire of reasoning strategies necessary to becoming versatile and nimble mathematical thinkers. It includes: "Seven Significant Strategies" to teach to students as they work toward procedural fluency. Activities, fluency routines, and games that encourage learning the efficiency, flexibility, and accuracy essential to real fluency. Reflection questions, connections to mathematical standards, and techniques for assessing all components of fluency. Suggestions for engaging families in understanding and supporting fluency. Fluency is more than a toolbox of strategies to choose from; it’s also a matter of equity and access for all learners. Give your students the knowledge and power to become confident mathematical thinkers.

Presents an approach to teaching basic math facts to young students, featuring instructional strategies, tips, and classroom activities. Includes a CD-ROM with customizable activities, templates, recording sheets, and teacher tools.

This simple, young, and satisfying story follows a Chinese American family as they celebrate the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. Each member of the family lends a hand as they prepare a moonlit picnic with mooncakes, pomelos, cups of tea, and colorful lanterns. And everyone sends thanks and a secret wish up to the moon. Grace Lin’s luminous and gloriously patterned artwork is perfect for this holiday tale. Her story is simple—tailor-made for reading aloud to young children. And she includes an informative author’s note with further details on the customs and traditions of the Moon Festival for parents and teachers. The Moon Festival is one of the most important holidays of the year along with the Lunar New Year, so this book makes an excellent companion to Grace Lin’s Bringing In the New Year, which features the same family.