Bøger af Marian Small

Provides tools to help experienced and novice teachers effectively and efficiently differentiate mathematics instruction in grades K-8. This third edition includes key changes that will make it easier for teachers to use the tools in all quality state standards environments, as well as with many new classroom examples for each grade band.

Drawing on the authors' vast experience working with administrators, this book provides practical advice and tools for improving math instruction. They guide you through the initial steps of establishing a strong math culture, developing common tasks, and then offer specific suggestions for monitoring, supporting, and sustaining improvement.

Comprehensively addresses different mathematical domains for grades 3-8. Marian Small shows new and veteran teachers how to do three fundamental things well: identify the most important math to assess, construct formative and summative assessments, and provide students with clear and timely feedback.

Focuses on the most important concepts and skills needed to provide early learners (preK-2) with a strong foundation in mathematics, in ways that are fun for both children and educators. Professional developer Marian Small provides sample activities and lessons, troubleshooting tips, and formative assessments, and much more.

Although proportional reasoning is not formally introduced as a topic in the Common Core and other mathematics curricula until 6th grade, introducing its fundamental ideas in the early grades helps students develop essential skills in ratios, percentages, and other proportional representations when they reach the upper grades. The author takes this complex subject and crafts examples and questions that help teachers see the larger purpose in teaching concepts, such as unitizing, and how that understanding is essential for more complex ideas, such as ratios. Teachers and vertical teams can see how the concepts can build year after year. This new resource by well-known professional developer Marian Small suggests questions that are both interesting for students and useful for providing diagnostic information to teachers. Chapters are organized by grade level (K8) around the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics to help teachers use the resource more easily.

Shows teachers how to uncomplicate the teaching of algebra by focusing on the most important ideas that students need to grasp. Organised by grade level around the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Marian Small shares approaches that will lead to a deeper and richer understanding of algebra for both teachers and students.

Shows teachers how to uncomplicate the teaching of fractions by focusing on the most important fraction ideas that students need to grasp. The book is organised by grade level beginning with Grade 1, where the first relevant standard is found in the geometry domain, and ending with Grade 7, where the focus is on operations with rational numbers and proportional thinking.