Teaching Math Online: Great Ways to Differentiate Instruction and Support Parents, K-8

Marian Small's book "Teaching Math Online" provides strategies for teaching math in a virtual environment, adapting existing materials, building and maintaining community with students, and using "office hours" to assist students and parents. It offers clear explanations, engaging teaching examples, and troubleshooting tips, and includes access to teaching videos and scripts, reproducibles for creating math manipulatives and tools, and additional online resources.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 88 pages
Publication date: 30 October 2020
Publisher: Teachers' College Press

Teaching Math Online is an essential resource for anyone teaching K–8 math either wholly online or in blended classrooms. This practical resource examines the benefits of online learning, such as recorded lessons that families can access for reteaching and tasks that use home environments as resources for counting, measuring, geometry, data analysis, and more. Readers will find clear explanations, engaging teaching examples, and troubleshooting tips.

The book features specific suggestions for supporting parents in their new partnership role, addresses both logistical and pedagogical issues important to successful online learning, includes access to teaching videos and scripts for teachers to create their own at tcpress.com/teachingmathonline, provides reproducibles for creating math manipulatives and tools, discusses distanced formative assessment, and suggests additional online resources.

One of the key challenges of teaching math online is providing rich, online instruction that maximizes the screen time you have with students and includes parents without overwhelming them. Marian Small shows teachers how to use open questions and parallel tasks as ideal strategies for teaching math in a virtual environment, how to adapt existing materials, how to build and maintain community with students online, and how and when to use "office hours" to assist students and parents.

Open questions and parallel tasks are effective strategies for teaching math in a virtual environment. Open questions allow students to explore and develop their own solutions, while parallel tasks allow students to work on the same problem at the same time. This can help students build confidence and develop problem-solving skills.

Adapt existing materials: Teachers can adapt existing materials to make them more effective for online learning. This can include using online quizzes, videos, and interactive games. Teachers can also create their own materials, such as worksheets and lesson plans, to use in their online classes.

Build and maintain community with students online: Building and maintaining community with students online is essential for successful online learning. Teachers can use online forums, chat rooms, and social media to connect with students and parents. Teachers can also provide feedback and support to students and parents.

Use "office hours" to assist students and parents: "Office hours" are a great way to assist students and parents with their math questions. Teachers can offer office hours online or in person. Teachers can also provide resources and support to students and parents during office hours.

Online learning affords several benefits, such as recorded lessons that families can access for reteaching and tasks that use home environments as resources for counting, measuring, geometry, data analysis, and more. Students absorb the deep message that math is indeed everywhere.

Readers will find clear explanations, engaging teaching examples, and troubleshooting tips in Teaching Math Online. The book features specific suggestions for supporting parents in their new partnership role, addresses both logistical and pedagogical issues important to successful online learning, includes access to teaching videos and scripts for teachers to create their own at tcpress.com/teachingmathonline, provides reproducibles for creating math manipulatives and tools, discusses distanced formative assessment, and suggests additional online resources.

In conclusion, Teaching Math Online is an essential resource for anyone teaching K–8 math either wholly online or in blended classrooms. The book features specific suggestions for supporting parents in their new partnership role, addresses both logistical and pedagogical issues important to successful online learning, includes access to teaching videos and scripts for teachers to create their own at tcpress.com/teachingmathonline, provides reproducibles for creating math manipulatives and tools, discusses distanced formative assessment, and suggests additional online resources. By using open questions and parallel tasks, adapting existing materials, building and maintaining community with students online, and using "office hours" to assist students and parents, teachers can provide rich, online mathematics instruction that maximizes the screen time they have with students and includes parents without overwhelming them.

Weight: 174g
Dimension: 178 x 252 x 8 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780807764909