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Engage students in mathematics using growth mindset techniques. The most challenging parts of teaching mathematics are engaging students and helping them understand the connections between mathematics concepts. In this volume, you'll find a collection of low floor, high ceiling tasks that will help you do just that, by looking at the big ideas at the first-grade level through visualization, play, and investigation. (Distributor)Contents
Contents : Introduction -- Note on Materials -- Activities for Building Norms -- Big Idea 1 : Understanding the physical quantity of number -- Big Idea 2 : using fingers as numbers -- Big Idea 3 : talking about and making shapes -- Big Idea 4 : Seeing numbers inside of numbers -- Big Idea 5 : putting numbers together -- Big Idea 6 : describing and sorting objects -- Big Idea 7 : seeing and making patterns everywhere -- Big Idea 8 : stretching counting toward 100 -- Appendix -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
