The math bulletin on back to school resources for teachers and for students. Your guide has hand picked a variety of resources to help you with your back to school needs in math.
1) Math Activities for Every Month of the Year
This Popular resource provides educators with a wealth of activities to foster a love of math all year round. Ideal for students in the first to the eighth grade.
2) Math Teacher's Book of Lists
This terrific resource has excellent ready-to-use examples and instructional ideas, suitable for grades 4-12 lesson plans and instructional materials. Organized into eight sections: Numbers, Measurement, Geometry, Algebra, Trigonometry and Calculus, Math in Everyday Life, Potpourri, and Teacher Reference.
3) Teaching Mathematics
These excellent resources are suitable for teachers of elementary and secondary students. The books focus on the methods, and techniques of motivating candidates to learn math, problem solving; and includes the use of graphing calculators, computers, and integrating with the Internet. Addresses a wide range of topics.
4) Math Starters: for every day of the school year
A collection of over 650 ready to use stimulating activities that lead students into higher level math thinking skills. Topics include: Whole Numbers: Theory & Operations; Fractions, Decimals & Percents; Measurement; Geometry; Algebra; and Potpourri.
5) For The New Math Teacher
A great read for elementary math teachers. This resource explains the difference between teaching math in China and the US. Both parents and teachers will benefit from reading and understanding the difference between procedural and conceptional understanding. Helps guide you into nurturing and developing the conceptual understanding of math.
6) Making Sense: Teaching and Learning Math with Understanding
This book will help parents and teachers to effectively support students with math concepts. Provides users with a better understanding on how to teach and how children learn math concepts. This is one of my favorite reference books for teaching math!
7) Great Ideas for Teaching Math
Be prepared to change the way you teach math! A problem centered approach to teaching math. Provides a variety of real life challenges that are sure to motivate and engage elementary aged students.
8) On the Shoulders of Giants: New Approaches to Numeracy
This highly recommended resource represents new ways to teach mathematics to a changing society, as well as new approaches to thinking about the field of mathematics and the world in general. Suitable for teacher and tutors of students in secondary school.
9) So you have to teach math?!
A perfect resource for candidates with the worst possible math anxiety! Math educators of elementary and middle school grades will find many new thought provoking ideas that will assist in the teaching of math. This book turns you into an effective math teacher.
10) Marilyn Burns: Teaching Children What Matters in Math
A collection of 1st to 3rd grade math lessons. The author provides readers with a more authentic approach to teaching meaningful concepts that will have lasting effects on students. The author has spend 20 years in the classroom and focuses on solutions for the critical changes brought forward in math reform.
