Teaching Math (Online)

Lesson 1: Raising the Issues

Explore different approaches to teaching math. Most of your students will not be naturally "math smart,"but by identifying ways in which they are smart, you can help them understand and learn math concepts. We'll also look at how to structure math lessons and manage the classroom to help students to learn math.

Lesson 2: Instructional Activities for the Content Standards – Part I

Start reviewing basic math skills with measurement and probability.

Lesson 3: Instructional Activities for the Content Standards – Part II

Explore logical reasoning, patterns and number operations.

Lesson 4: Teaching Arithmetic – Part I

Why do we teach math? Is it about getting the right answers or about understanding how to get the right answers? See how number sense, computation and problem-solving form the three pillars of math learning.

Lesson 5: Teaching Arithmetic – Part II

Explore the place value of numbers, as well as addition and subtraction.

Lesson 6: Teaching Arithmetic – Part III

Explore multiplication (factoring, distributive property, powers of 10) and division.

Lesson 7: Teaching Arithmetic – Part IV

Explore working with fractions, including comparing fractions and performing operations with them.

Lesson 8: Teaching Arithmetic – Part V

Study numbers with decimals and percents. Most of the numbers we work with have decimals. Money problems form the first experience many students have with decimals, but probability and statistics also work with decimals and percents.

Lesson 9: Further Exploration and Putting It all Together

We'll read a collection of questions the book's author has received over the years for insight into their point of view and experience and to launch our own discussion. We'll also look back at what we've learned to create an artifact for our portfolios.