Differentiating Instruction with Menus

Math (Grades 3-5)
2. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-61821-536-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 213 mm x 277 mm, Gewicht: 408 g

The best-selling Differentiating Instruction With Menus series has helped teachers nationwide differentiate instruction for their high-ability learners with easy-to-use menus and exciting tools to challenge and reach gifted and advanced students in the classroom. Each book includes an updated, student-friendly rubric that can assess different types of products, free choice proposal forms to encourage independent study, and new and favorite challenging menus to meet the needs of these diverse higher level learners. Readers will also be able to save time by using updated guidelines that reflect changes in technology for each of the products included in the menus and find direct alignment with standards approved in recent years. Topics addressed in Differentiating Instruction With Menus: Math (Grades 3-5, 2nd ed.) include whole numbers and operations, fractions, probability and statistics, geometry, measurement, and problem solving.

Grades 3-5

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Westphal, Laurie E

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik (Unterricht & Didaktik)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Author’s Note Part I: All About Menus and Choice Chapter 1: Choice Chapter 2: How to Use Menus in the Classroom Chapter 3: Guidelines for Products Chapter 4: Rubrics Part II: The Menus Chapter 5: Whole Numbers and Operations Place Value Prime and Composite Numbers Divisibility Rules Whole Numbers Order of Operations Chapter 6: Decimals and Fractions Money Introduction to Decimals Addition and Subtraction of Decimals Decimals and Fractions Basic Fractions Addition and Subtraction of Fractions Multiplication and Division of Fractions Chapter 7: Geometry Lines of Symmetry Coordinate Graphs Using Graphs Shapes Calculating Area, Perimeter, and Volume Chapter 8: Measurement Time Length Capacity Weight Measurement Chapter 9: Finances Supply and Demand Income and Taxes Savings Plans Credit Finances and Planning Famous Mathematicians References About the Author Common Core State Standards

Über Autor(innen)

After teaching science for more than 15 years, both overseas and in the U.S., Laurie E. Westphal now works as an independent gifted education and science consultant. She enjoys developing and presenting staff development on differentiation for various districts and conferences, working with teachers to assist them in planning and developing lessons to meet the needs of their advanced students.