Offers sixth- through ninth-grade math teachers a step-by-step approach to planning standards-based curriculum, instruction, and assessment, with sample activities, problems, and assessments and expert advice for every stage of the process.

Learn everything you need to know to implement an integrated system of assessment and grading. The author details the specific benefits of formative assessment and explains how to design and interpret three different types of formative assessments, how to track student progress, and how to assign meaningful grades. Detailed examples bring each concept to life, and chapter exercises reinforce the content.

Aligned to current state standards, Spectrum(R) Critical Thinking for Math for seventh grade provides practice in: -operations with rational numbers -expressions, equations, and inequalities -ratios -probability -statistics This workbook helps seventh graders develop problem-solving skills. Applying math outside of the classroom is important for lifelong success—Spectrum Critical Thinking for Math ensures that your child is on the right path. Filled with problem-solving instructions, challenging word problems, tests, reasoning questions, and an answer key, this workbook has everything your child needs to learn, retain, and apply math skills for success. Spectrum helps students stay on top of skills and standards for classroom success. This award-winning brand provides comprehensive practice for various subjects, needs, and grades. From test prep titles to skill-building workbooks, Spectrum supports your child’s educational journey every step of the way.

Being an effective math educator is one part based on the quality of the tasks we give, one part how we diagnose what we see, and one part what we do with what we find. Yet with so many students and big concepts to cover, it can be hard to slow down enough to look for those moments when students’ responses tell us what we need to know about next best steps. In this remarkable book, John SanGiovanni helps us value our students’ misconceptions and incomplete understandings as much as their correct ones—because it’s the gap in their understanding today that holds the secrets to planning tomorrow’s best teaching. SanGiovanni lays out 180 high-quality tasks aligned to the standards and big ideas of Grades 3-5 mathematics, including addition and subtraction of multi-digit whole numbers, multiplication and division of single and multi-digit whole numbers, foundational fraction concepts, foundational decimal concepts, and operations with fractions and decimals. The tasks are all downloadable so you can use or modify them for instruction and assessment. Each big idea offers a starting task followed by: what makes it a high-quality task what you might anticipate before students work with the task 4 student examples of the completed task showcasing a distinct “gap” commentary on what precisely counts for mathematical understanding and the next instructional steps commentary on the misconception or incomplete understanding so you learn why the student veered off course three additional tasks aligned to the mathematics topic and ideas about what students might do with these additional tasks. It’s time to break our habit of rushing into re-teaching for correctness and instead get curious about the space between right and wrong answers. Mine the Gap for Mathematical Understanding is a book you will return to again and again to get better at selecting tasks that will uncover students’ reasoning—better at discerning the quality and clarity of students’ understanding—and better at planning teaching based on the gaps you see.

Engineering professor Barbara Oakley knows firsthand how it feels to struggle with math. In her book, she offers you the tools needed to get a better grasp of that intimidating but inescapable field.