5 easy steps to a balanced science program

How can teachers build mathematically powerful students , students who can solve problems and also communicate their understanding to others? Step 1: Math Review emphasizes the development of number sense while students practice procedural mathematics and computational skills. It also prepares students for success on the annual state mathematics assessment.

Mental Math helps students become skillful in computing math problems mentally. Step 2: Problem Solving provides both a structure for problem solving activities related to the current conceptual unit focus and a general problem solving rubric or scoring guide that is used throughout the year to assess student work.

Step 3: Conceptual Understanding identifies in district and state math standards a particular grade-level or course topic that is essential for student understanding. That topic becomes the focus for the design of a conceptual math unit that deliberately aligns instruction to an end-of-unit assessment. Step 4: Mastery of Math Facts emphasizes fact recall through student understanding of patterns.

A program of accountability enables students to learn all of their math facts by the end of elementary school. Step 5: Common Formative Assessments aligns math Priority Standards to school-based assessments for learning. These formative assessments are collaboratively designed, administered, scored, and analyzed within each grade level several times throughout the school year.

Five Easy Steps to a Balanced Math Program helps teachers focus on teaching concepts for understanding, as opposed to marching through a textbook.

We emphasize that our state standards are our curriculum, and this is the framework we are using to plan and teach these standards for understanding to our students. Textbooks, like any other resource, are incidental to the implementation of quality math teaching and learning. New other : Lowest price The lowest-priced item in unused and unworn condition with absolutely no signs of wear. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

See all 2 new other listings. Buy It Now. Add to cart. Sold by thrift. About this product Product Information One of a series of three titles Primary, Middle School and Secondary that are standards-based materials and methods books for teaching science. Using The Five Easy Steps to a Balanced Science Program, a middle school teacher can help students to: become confident in their knowledge of science, understand the content, solve problems, communicate their knowledge, and perform well on standardized tests.

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