MATH 453 (secondary grades): Teaching Resources

Why students struggle with math: the scenarios -- 10 obstacles to success and their solutions -- Getting the most out of the first week of school -- Keeping students engaged with "best practices tweaked" -- Distributed practice, reviews, and tests -- Sometimes it can be fun and games -- Activities, teacher pages, and solutions.

Ch. 1. Introducing the five practices -- Ch. 2. Laying the groundwork : setting goals and selecting tasks -- Ch. 3. Investigating the five practices in action -- Ch. 4. Getting started : anticipating students' responses and monitoring their work -- Ch. 5. Determining the direction of the discussion : selecting, sequencing, and connecting students' responses -- Ch. 6. Ensuring active thinking and participation : asking good questions and holding students accountable -- Ch. 7. Putting the five practices in a broader context of lesson planning -- Ch. 8. Working in the school environment to improve classroom discussions

Managing your classroom -- Enhancing teaching techniques -- Facilitating student learning -- Assessing student progress -- Teaching problem solving -- Considering social aspects in teaching mathematics.

Prologue: what is a function? -- Let's differentiate a function -- Let's learn differentiation techniques -- Let's integrate a function -- Let's learn integration techniques -- Let's learn about Taylor Expansions -- Let's learn about partial differentiation -- Epilogue: what is mathematics for?