Project-Based Learning in the Math Classroom (Grades 3-5) explains how to keep inquiry at the heart of mathematics teaching. This book:
- Outlines basic teaching strategies, such as questioning and exploration of concepts.
- Provides advanced strategies for teachers who are already implementing inquiry-based methods.
- Includes practical advice about strategies the authors have used in their own classrooms.
- Features strategies that can be implemented immediately.
- Helps teachers build students' abilities to be true mathematicians.
Teaching in a project-based environment means using great teaching practices. The authors impart strategies that assist teachers in planning standards-based lessons, encouraging wonder and curiosity, providing a safe environment where failure occurs, and giving students opportunities for revision and reflection.
Project-Based Learning in the Math Classroom: Grades 3-5 explains how to keep inquiry at the heart of mathematics teaching in the upper elementary grades. Helping teachers integrate other subjects into the math classroom, this book outlines in-depth tasks, projects and routines to support project-based learning (PBL). Featuring helpful tips for creating PBL units, alongside models and strategies that can be implemented immediately, Project-Based Learning in the Math Classroom: Grades 3-5 understands that teaching in a project-based environment means using great teaching practices. The authors impart strategies that assist teachers in planning standards-based lessons, encouraging wonder and curiosity, providing a safe environment where mistakes can occur, and giving students opportunities for revision and reflection.
Project-Based Learning in the Math Classroom: Grades 3-5 explains how to keep inquiry at the heart of mathematics teaching. This book outlines basic teaching strategies, such as questioning and exploration of concepts.
