My kids can : making math accessible to all learners, K–5

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Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Foreword by Deborah Schifter viii
Introduction x

Making Mathematics Explicit 1

1 Are We Multiplying or Dividing? Being Explicit in Teaching

Mathematics Ana Vaisenstein 5

2 What Comes Next? Being Explicit About Patterns Laura Marlowe 18

3 You Can’t Build a Sand Castle on a Classmate’s Head:

Being Explicit in Kindergarten Math Lisa Seyferth 26

4 Double or Nothing: Guided Math Instruction Michelle Perch 32

5 Focused Instruction on Quick Images: A Guided Math

GroupVideo featuring Michael Flynn Arusha Hollister 38

6 Solving Multiplication Problems: Purposeful Sharing of Strategies

Video featuring Heather Straughter Arusha Hollister 43

Linking Assessment and Teaching 47

7 Assessing and Supporting Students to Make Connections:
Developing Flexibility with Counting Ana Vaisenstein 51
8 The Pieces Get Skinnier and Skinnier: Assessing Students’ Ideas
About Fractions Marta Garcia Johnson 60
9 After One Number Is the Next! Assessing a Student’s Knowledge
of Counting Maureen McCarty 69
10 Assessing and Developing Early Number Concepts: Working
with Kristen Anne Marie O’Reilly 77
11 How Many Children Got off the Bus? Assessing Students’
Knowledge of Subtraction Video featuring Ana Vaisenstein
Arusha Hollister 88