Mindset Mathematics: Visualizing and Investigating Big Ideas, Grade 7

The authors of Mindset Mathematics designed the book around the principle of active student engagement and brain science, with tasks that reflect the latest research on learning. The book is organized around nine big ideas that emphasize the connections within the Common Core State Standards and can be used with any current curriculum.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 304 pages
\n Publication date: 10 September 2019
\n Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
\n

The most challenging aspects of teaching mathematics are engaging students and assisting them in understanding the relationships between mathematical concepts. In this volume, you'll find a collection of low-floor, high-ceiling tasks that will help you do just that, by examining the big ideas at the seventh-grade level through visualization, play, and investigation.

During their work with tens of thousands of teachers, authors Jo Boaler, Jen Munson, and Cathy Williams heard the same message: they want to incorporate more brain science into their math instruction but need guidance in the techniques that work best to convey the concepts they needed to teach. Therefore, the authors designed Mindset Mathematics around the principle of active student engagement, with tasks that reflect the latest brain science on learning. Open, creative, and visual math tasks have been shown to improve student test scores and, more importantly, change their relationship with mathematics and start believing in their own potential. The tasks in Mindset Mathematics reflect the lessons from brain science that:

There is no such thing as a math person; anyone can learn mathematics to high levels.
Mistakes, struggle, and challenge are the most important times for brain growth.
Speed is unimportant in mathematics.
Mathematics is a visual and beautiful subject, and our brains want to think visually about mathematics.

With engaging questions, open-ended tasks, and four-color visuals that will help kids get excited about mathematics, Mindset Mathematics is organized around nine big ideas that emphasize the connections within the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and can be used with any current curriculum.

\n Weight: 842g\n
Dimension: 275 x 215 x 14 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781119357919\n \n