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In this volume, you'll find a collection of low floor, high ceiling tasks that will help students understand the connections between mathematics concepts, by looking at the big ideas at the fifth-grade level through visualisation, play, and investigation. With engaging questions, open-ended tasks, and four-colour visuals that will help kids get excited about mathematics, Mindset Mathematics is organised around nine big ideas which emphasise the connections within the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and can be used with any current curriculum.Contents
Contents : Introduction -- Activities for building norms -- Big idea 1 : Thinking in cubes -- Big idea 2 : Estimating with fractions -- Big idea 3 : Using fraction equivalence -- Big idea 4 : Exploring the coordinate plane -- Big idea 5 : Seeing and connecting patterns across representations -- Big idea 6 : Understanding fraction multiplication visually -- Big idea 7 : What does it mean to divide fractions? -- Big idea 8 : Thinking in powers of 10 -- Big idea 9 : Using numbers and symbols flexibly -- Appendix -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
