Powerful Problem Solving: Activities for Sense Making with the Mathematical Practices

by Max Ray and Max Ray-Riek

Book Overview

How can we break the cycle of frustrated students who "drop out of math" because the procedures just don't make sense to them? Or who memorize the procedures for the test but don't really understand the mathematics? Max Ray-Riek and his colleagues at the Math Forum @ Drexel University say "problem solved," by offering their collective wisdom about how students become proficient problem solvers, through the lens of the CCSS for Mathematical Practices...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325050902
• ISBN13: 9780325050904
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.6" x 11.0"
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 8