Now I Get It: Strategies for Building Confident and Competent Mathematicians, K-6 (includes a CD filled with teacher resources) ISBN# 0-325-00766-7

This book is a practical handbook for the teaching of mathematics in grades K-6, offering countless ideas for balancing your math program, refining your students’ math understanding, and enhancing your math teaching.

Chapter topics include:

• balancing the teaching of computation and problem solving
• developing math concepts through manipulatives
• using children’s literature to teach concepts in context
• differentiating math instruction
• incorporating math talk and writing into classroom lessons

Along with a wealth of ideas for classroom activities, the book includes a CD with over 100 pages of resources to support teachers as they implement the ideas including:

• ready-to-print manipulative templates (spinners, grids, number lines, coins, fraction pieces, hundred charts…)
• extensive bibliography of math-related literature categorized by math topics
• math facts game templates
• easy-to-use math center ideas
• varied problem-solving and writing tasks

Many of the manipulative and activity templates on the CD can be easily customized to meet students’ specific needs. Reflection questions after each chapter make this book perfect for teacher study groups or professional development activities.

The Math Process Standards Series, Sue O’Connell (series editor)

Math is more than content. Through processes, like problem solving and communication, students explore math ideas and apply their math understandings. And today’s math assessments require students to be proficient with both math content and math processes as they challenge students to solve math problems and communicate about math ideas.

Each book in this new series is a practical guide for teachers – helping them better understand critical math processes and providing them with doable ways to incorporate these processes into their math classrooms. Books in the series include:

• Introduction to Problem Solving
• Introduction to Communication
• Introduction to Representation
• Introduction to Reasoning and Proof
• Introduction to Connections

Books are available in three grade bands (PK-2, 3-5, 6-8). Included with each book is a CD filled with teacher tools (e.g., rubrics, checklists, graphic organizers) and customizable student activities to allow teachers to change names, data, or spacing for a quick way to differentiate instruction within the math classroom. These books are practical resources for individual teachers who want to refine their skills, and are a popular choice for teacher study groups.

For more information on any of the books in this series, go to Heinemann Publishing Company’s website at www.heinemann.com. For additional information on the books written by Sue O’Connell (Introduction to Problem Solving and Introduction to Communication) see the descriptions below.

Introduction to Problem Solving (book and CD with customizable activities)
Grades PK-2 ISBN# 0-325-01105-2
Grades 3-5 ISBN# 0-325-00970-8
Grades 6-8 ISBN# 0-325-01296-4

Introduction to Problem Solving provides immediate help to any teacher attempting to implement problem-solving instruction. The book includes:

• explanations of critical problem-solving skills and strategies
• teacher tips to introduce, develop, and reinforce each critical skill
• samples of student work
• examples of integrated lessons which strengthen students’ problem-solving and math content skills

The accompanying CD contains dozens of resources teachers can put to immediate use, including:

• checklists
• scoring keys
• icons
• approximately 70 practice problems that are in Microsoft Word and can be easily customized to include names, topics, and data that are specific to your students’ needs.

This book is a practical resource for individual teachers who want to refine their skills in teaching math problem solving, and is also a popular choice for teacher study groups.

Introduction to Problem Solving Grades PK-2
ISBN# 0-325-01105-2

Introduction to Problem Solving Grades 3-5
ISBN# 0-325-00970-8

Introduction to Problem Solving Grades 6-8
ISBN# 0-325-01296-4

Introduction to Communication (book and CD with customizable activities)
Grades PK-2 ISBN# 0-325-01236-9
Grades PK-2 ISBN# 0-325-01236-9
Grades 6-8 ISBN# 0-325-01732-7

Introduction to Communication provides practical ideas for incorporating talk and writing into math lessons. The book focuses on the role of language in the math classroom both to build student understanding and to enhance teacher assessment.
It includes:

• strategies for generating productive math talk
• ways to strengthen teacher questioning
• techniques for developing math vocabulary
• ideas for incorporating writing tasks into math lessons
• strategies for helping students more efficiently read math text
• tips for supporting struggling writers
• easy-to-implement ideas for improving the quality of students’ written explanations

The CD contains dozens of resources teachers can put to immediate use, including:

• rubrics
• graphic organizers
• activity templates
• approximately 70 student writing tasks that are in Microsoft Word and can be easily customized to include names, topics, and data that are specific to your students’ needs.

The CD writing activities are perfect preparation for the constructed-response tasks that appear on many state and district assessments.This book is a practical resource for individual teachers who want to refine their understanding of communication (talk and writing) about math, and the reflection questions at the end of each chapter make it a popular choice for teacher study groups.

Introduction to Communication Grades PK-2
ISBN# 0-325-01236-9

Introduction to Communication Grades 3-5
ISBN# 0-325-01236-9

Introduction to Communication Grades 6-8
ISBN# 0-325-01732-7

Glyphs! Data Communication for Primary Mathematicians (Grades 1-3)
ISBN 1-56417-663-0

Glyphs are a fun and motivating way to get students thinking about data. Glyphs, taken from hieroglyphics, are a way of representing data in pictures. This book contains directions for creating glyphs on a variety of topics from a back-to-school glyph to a rainy day glyph to holiday glyphs. And once the glyphs are created, the book provides a variety of extension activities that guide students in interpreting the data and creating class graphs. This book provides glyphs on topics that span the entire school year and extension activities that will excite and motivate students to analyze and explore the data they have collected.

Glyphs II - Data Communication for Elementary Mathematicians (Grades 4-6)
ISBN 1-56417-901-X

Glyphs II contains more glyphs to add some excitement to math lessons. Students create glyphs to represent data about television, games, vacations, sports, weather, books, and much more. Students need to use their math skills in such areas as measurement, geometry, and fractions in order to create these more sophisticated glyphs. Each glyph is accompanied by ideas for extension activities that encourage students to analyze and communicate about this real world data.

Real World Math for Grades 4-6
ISBN # 0-7682-0100-4

Everyday materials such as newspapers, menus, travel brochures, and sporting goods catalogs are used to demonstrate the crucial need for math in students' lives. Includes teacher and student pages containing links between school and home, math skills charts, literature links, and more!

Math - The Write Way for grades 6-7 ISBN 0-7682-0622-7

This book focuses on strengthening students' skills at communicating about mathematics, a critical skill in current national, state and local standards. Filled with blackline masters that span all math domains, the book provides open-ended questions for students to test both their math and writing abilities. As students engage in activities that focus on their skills in numeration, rationals, measurement, geometry, data analysis, probability, or problem solving, they are asked to explain, illustrate, describe, and justify key math ideas.

Math - The Write Way for grades 6-7
ISBN 0-7682-0622-7

Tips for New Teachers
ISBN 0-7682-0729-0

Tips for New Teachers provides everything needed to start off on the right foot. This collection of insightful tips from experienced teachers addresses topics such as designing your classroom, welcoming students to a new school year, managing student behavior, planning and delivering effective lessons, and building relationships with parents and staff. A terrific tool to jump-start any teacher's career. This book includes reproducibles (student awards and certificates, behavior contracts, parent notices, bulletin board ideas, and more) to help make life a little easier!