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Eyes on Math - Marian Small, Amy Lin

Eyes on Math

A Visual Approach to Teaching Math Concepts

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Buch | Hardcover
304 Seiten
2025 | Second Edition
Teachers' College Press (Verlag)
978-0-8077-8717-5 (ISBN)
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A vibrant resource for math instruction in grades K-8, offering engaging full-color visuals and downloadable materials to clarify challenging concepts. It includes guiding questions, expected answers, and fresh activities that spark mathematical dialogue and support diverse learner needs.
This full-color resource will help K–8 teachers find new ways to clarify concepts that students find difficult.

This extensively updated teaching resource provides over engaging, full-color visuals with explanations of how they can be used to stimulate mathematics learning, to explain mathematical concepts, and to assess students' mathematical understanding in grades K–8.

Readers are provided with a strong mathematical background, downloadable copies of the visuals they can use directly, and helpful questions to raise with their students. Expected answers for each question and follow-up extensions are also provided. This expanded second edition includes 5 new Notice and Wonder activities to get mathematical conversations started and 5 new Student Assessment activities with suggestions for visuals that students can create to help teachers assess comprehension.

This user-friendly book will help teachers find new ways to clarify concepts that students find difficult. It will also help teachers working with students with low reading ability, including English language learners and special education students.

Book Features:



3 visuals, including color artwork and graphics.
Questions and tasks to use with students in leading the instructional conversation.
Expected answers and explanations of why each question is important.
Prompts for students to show their understanding of a concept by using visuals.
Vital mathematical background and context.

Marian Small is an international professional developer, conference speaker, bestselling author, former dean of education at the University of New Brunswick, and longtime professor of mathematics education. Visit Marian's website at www.onetwoinfinity.ca for in-person and online professional development. Amy Lin is the director of teaching and learning at Seneca College. Amy has worked as a teacher in elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels and as a mathematics coach, a curriculum consultant, administrator, and ministry researcher.

Preface  ix

Acknowledgments  xiii

.  Background  
Visualization in Math  
Focusing on the Important Math  3
Building Mathematical Communication  4

2.  Grades K–2  7

Notice and Wonder
Strawberries  8
Egg Cartons  
Bracelets   2
Daisies   4
Donuts  

Explaining Concepts
Counting Up by s   8
Counting Back by s  2
Counting Up by 2s  22
Counting Back by 2s  24
Counting Up by 5s  2
Counting Back by 5s  28
Counting Up by s  3
Counting Back by s  32
Comparing Numbers by Matching  34
Benchmark Numbers: All About 5  3
Benchmark Numbers: All About  38
Ordinal Numbers  4
Addition as Combining  42
Adding and Adding  44
Addition: Commutativity  4
Addition: Changing Addends, But Not the Sum  48
Adding or Subtracting  5
Subtraction as Taking Away  52
Subtraction to Compare  54
Relating Addition and Subtraction  5
Naming Two-Digit Numbers  58
Naming Three-Digit Numbers  
Place Value: Grouping in Tens   2
Place Value: Positions   4
Comparing Sizes of Numbers  
Fractions: Halves   8
Fractions: Quarters  7
Measurement: Meaning of Length  72
Measurement: Effect of Unit Size  74
Measurement: Standard Units of Length  7
2-D Shapes Versus 3-D Shapes  78
Comparing 2-D Shapes  8
Comparing 3-D Shapes  82
Composing Shapes  84
Shape Puzzles  8

Student Assessment: Draw or Model to Explain
Rearranging Addends  89
Subitizing 8  9
Ordinal Numbers: Points of View  9
Subtracting by Adding  9
Nonstandard Measurement  92

3.  Grades 3–5  95

Notice and Wonder
Quilts  9
Design  98
Juice  
Tennis   2
Pastries   4

Explaining Concepts
Multiplication: Equal Groups  
Multiplication: Commutativity   8
Multiplication: The Distributive Principle  
Multiplication: 2-Digit by 2-Digit   2
Division as Equal Groups or Sharing   4
Division: Remainders  
Rounding Numbers   8
Place Value: Multiplying and Dividing by Powers of   2
Place Value: Renaming Numbers   22
Factors: What They Are   24
Factors Come in Pairs   2
Fractions: Representing   28
Fractions: Equivalence   3
Fractions: Comparing   32
Fractions: Mixed Number/Improper Fraction Relationship   34
Fractions: Common Denominators   3
Adding Fractions   38
Multiplying Fractions   4
Fractions: Multiplying as Resizing   44
Fractions as Division   4
Decimals: Relating Hundredths to Tenths   48
Decimals: Equivalence   5
Decimals: Adding and Subtracting   52
Measurement: Time Intervals   54
Measurement: Area of Rectangles   5
Perimeter Versus Area   58
Measurement Conversions  
Graphs With Scales   2
Coordinate Grids   4
Classification of Shapes  
Parallel and Perpendicular Lines   8
Lines of Symmetry   7
Patterns Versus Nonpatterns   72
Algebraic Thinking: Growing Additively   74
Algebraic Thinking: Shrinking Additively   7
Algebraic Thinking: Growing Multiplicatively   78

Student Assessment: Draw or Model to Explain
Fractions of a Set   8
Fraction as Division   8
Relating Quotients   82
Comparing Products   83
Factors   84

4.  Grades –8   87

Notice and Wonder
Roller Coasters   88
A Giant Burger   9
Going to a Concert   92
Basketball   94
A Solar Eclipse   9

Explaining Concepts
Common Factors   98
Common Multiples  2
Square Roots  2 2
Fraction Division  2 4
Ratios: Multiple Ratios Describe Any Situation  2
Equivalent Ratios  2 8
Equivalent Rates  2
Solving Rate Problems  2 2
Describing Percent  2 4
Uses of Integers  2
The Zero Principle  2 8
Subtraction of Integers as a Directed Distance  22
Multiplication and Division of Integers  222
Area of a Parallelogram  224
Area of a Triangle  22
The Pythagorean Theorem  23
Pi    232
How Measurements Are and Are Not Related  234
Mean  23
Variability  238
Sampling  24
Probability: What It Means  242
Unpredictability  244
Rotations, Reflections, and Translations  24
Scale Drawings  248
Dilations  25
Angles With Parallel Lines  252
Equivalent Expressions  254
Equation as a Balance  25
Different Types of Equations  258
What Is Linear?  2
Role of the Slope in the Equation of a Line  2 2
Systems of Equations  2 4
Function Rules  2

Student Assessment: Draw or Model to Explain
Subtracting Negatives  2 8
Relating Percents  2 9
Square Root Estimates  27
Dividing Fractions  272
Common Factors  273

Appendix: Connections Between Topics and Common Core Standards  275

References  279

Index  28

About the Authors  285

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 184 x 260 mm
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ISBN-10 0-8077-8717-5 / 0807787175
ISBN-13 978-0-8077-8717-5 / 9780807787175
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