Math as a Way of Knowing (Strategies for Teaching and Learning Professional Library)

• teaching mathematical concepts through hands-on activities;
  
• writing and talking about what numbers mean;
  
• discovering the where and why of math in everyday life;
  
• finding that there are often multiple ways to solve the same problem.
  

• new ways to organize your curriculum and classroom to support heterogeneous grouping, collaborative learning, and interdisciplinary studies;
  
• ways to create meaningful mathematics homework;
  
• the reflective power of writing to support mathematical understanding;
  
• classroom strategies that foster hands-on exploration, problem solving, and research;
  
• ways to connect math across the curriculum-to social studies, the language arts, art, and science;
  
• the effective use of manipulatives to solve intriguing problems.
  

Award-winning author Susan Ohanian conducts a lively tour of classrooms around the country where "math time" means stimulating learning experiences. To demonstrate the point that mathematics is an active, ongoing way of perceiving and interacting with the world, she explores

• teaching mathematical concepts through hands-on activities;
  
• writing and talking about what numbers mean;
  
• discovering the where and why of math in everyday life;
  
• finding that there are often multiple ways to solve the same problem.
  

• new ways to organize your curriculum and classroom to support heterogeneous grouping, collaborative learning, and interdisciplinary studies;
  
• ways to create meaningful mathematics homework;
  
• the reflective power of writing to support mathematical understanding;
  
• classroom strategies that foster hands-on exploration, problem solving, and research;
  
• ways to connect math across the curriculum-to social studies, the language arts, art, and science;
  
• the effective use of manipulatives to solve intriguing problems.
  

Teaching Children Mathematics

Mathematics as a Way of Knowing discusses four areas prominent in the NCTM's Standards. The first chapter helps teachers understand that mathematical knowledge is constructed. Succeeding chapters discuss (a) connections of mathematics to social studies, language arts, art, and science; (b) the value of manipulatives; and (c) forming effective cooperative - learning groups in mathematics.