Thinking Kids'(R) Math is a fun and hands-on approach to learning math! Increase your kindergartenerÕs critical thinking and problem solving skills with the colorful, interactive activities. Each activity supports early learning standards and uses a variety of manipulatives to encourage your child to connect with the math skills he or she is learning. In Thinking Kids Math, your child will learn about counting, sequencing, ordinal numbers, graphing, time, and money. Thinking Kids'(R) Math is a series of hands-on, manipulative math activities aligned to the Common Core State Standards. Each 192-page book consists of different types of grade-appropriate hands-on activities. This series was built on the idea that children learn math concepts best through hands-on experiences. These activities will provide hours of fun while encouraging Common Core Standards through active learning.

Discover Kindergarten is an early learning resource that promotes critical thinking and skill strengthening. With the help of this at-home supplement, your child will learn about numbers, counting, addition, subtraction, patterns, sorting, shapes, measurement, graphing, letter recognition, consonant and vowel sounds, rhyming, and word recognition. --The Discover series offers creative and open-ended math and language arts exercises for a hands-on learning experience that refines problem-solving skills. Each engaging activity supports early learning standards and provides opportunity for a deep understanding of grade-appropriate math and language arts concepts. --A cross-curricular supplement that builds a solid foundation for academic success, the Discover series delivers a fun approach to learning!

Thinking Kids'(R) Math is a fun and hands-on approach to learning math! Increase your kindergarteners critical thinking and problem solving skills with the colorful, interactive activities. Each activity supports early learning standards and uses a variety of manipulatives to encourage your child to connect with the math skills he or she is learning. In Thinking Kids(R) Math, your child will learn about counting, sequencing, ordinal numbers, graphing, time, and money. Thinking Kids’(R) Math is a series of hands-on, manipulative math activities aligned to the Common Core State Standards. Each 192-page book consists of different types of grade-appropriate hands-on activities. This series was built on the idea that children learn math concepts best through hands-on experiences. These activities will provide hours of fun while encouraging Common Core Standards through active learning.

Filled with grade-specific activities for the classroom and real world, Spectrum(R) Critical Thinking for Math for kindergarten provides problem-solving strategies for: -counting -writing -addition -subtraction -measurement -data -geometry This workbook is aligned with current state standards. Spectrum Critical Thinking for Math helps extend classroom learning to real-world scenarios. Packed with problem-solving instructions, math reasoning questions, and word problems, this series challenges children to think critically while building and applying math skills both in and out of the classroom. The testing sections help your child review and retain knowledge, and the answer key provides insight into different problem-solving methods and strategies. From early learning to middle grades, Spectrum supports the educational journey with comprehensive, standards-based practice. Each grade-specific title is designed to enhance and reinforce classroom learning while preparing children for the year ahead, test success, and skill mastery. Whatever your need, Spectrum is with you every step of the way.

Singapore Math creates a deep understanding of each key math concept, includes an introduction explaining the Singapore Math method, is a direct complement to the current textbooks used in Singapore, and includes step-by-step solutions in the answer key. Singapore Math, for students in grades 2 to 5, provides math practice while developing analytical and problem-solving skills. This series is correlated to Singapore Math textbooks and creates a deep understanding of each key math concept. Learning objectives are provided to identify what students should know after completing each unit, and assessments are included to ensure that learners obtain a thorough understanding of mathematical concepts. Perfect as a supplement to classroom work, these workbooks will boost confidence in problem-solving and critical-thinking skills!

Just as athletes stretch their muscles before every game and musicians play scales to keep their technique in tune, mathematical thinkers and problem solvers can benefit from daily warm-up exercises. Jessica Shumway has developed a series of routines designed to help young students internalize and deepen their facility with numbers. The daily use of these quick five-, ten-, or fifteen-minute experiences at the beginning of math class will help build students' number sense. Students with strong number sense understand numbers, ways to represent numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems. They make reasonable estimates, compute fluently, use reasoning strategies (e.g., relate operations, such as addition and subtraction, to each other), and use visual models based on their number sense to solve problems. Students who never develop strong number sense will struggle with nearly all mathematical strands, from measurement and geometry to data and equations. In Number Sense Routines, Jessica shows that number sense can be taught to all students. Dozens of classroom examples -- including conversations among students engaging in number sense routines -- illustrate how the routines work, how children's number sense develops, and how to implement responsive routines. Additionally, teachers will gain a deeper understanding of the underlying math -- the big ideas, skills, and strategies children learn as they develop numerical literacy.

A thinking student is an engaged student Teachers often find it difficult to implement lessons that help students go beyond rote memorization and repetitive calculations. In fact, institutional norms and habits that permeate all classrooms can actually be enabling "non-thinking" student behavior. Sparked by observing teachers struggle to implement rich mathematics tasks to engage students in deep thinking, Peter Liljedahl has translated his 15 years of research into this practical guide on how to move toward a thinking classroom. Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K–12 helps teachers implement 14 optimal practices for thinking that create an ideal setting for deep mathematics learning to occur. This guide Provides the what, why, and how of each practice and answers teachers’ most frequently asked questions Includes firsthand accounts of how these practices foster thinking through teacher and student interviews and student work samples Offers a plethora of macro moves, micro moves, and rich tasks to get started Organizes the 14 practices into four toolkits that can be implemented in order and built on throughout the year When combined, these unique research-based practices create the optimal conditions for learner-centered, student-owned deep mathematical thinking and learning, and have the power to transform mathematics classrooms like never before.