Teacher Resources
Sue's teacher resource publications provide engaging classroom activities that guide students towards meeting today's standards. The activities are motivating and meaningful, and are based on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Standards and the Common Core State Standards. The books strongly encourage a teaching style that incorporates problem solving, reasoning, communication, representation, and connections into daily math activities.
Available through Heinemann Publishing Company:
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Phone - 1-800-225-5800
Fax – 603-431-2214
Online – www.heinemann.com
Mastering the Basic Math Facts in Addition and Subtraction: Strategies, Activities, and Interventions to Move Students Beyond Memorization (includes a CD filled with teacher resources in English and Spanish) ISBN#0-325-02963-6
- emphasizes the big ideas that provide a focus for math facts instruction
- broadens your repertoire of instructional strategies
- provides dozens of easy-to-implement activities to support varied levels of learners
- stimulates your reflection related to teaching math facts.
Through investigations, discussions, visual models, children's literature, and hands-on explorations, students develop an understanding of the concepts of addition and subtraction, and through engaging, interactive practice achieve fluency with basic facts.
A teacher-friendly CD filled with customizable activities, templates, recording sheets, and teacher tools (hundred charts, ten-frames, addition charts, game templates, and assessment options) simplifies your planning and preparation. Over 450 pages of reproducible forms are included in English and Spanish translation.
Mastering the Basic Math Facts in Multiplication and Division: Strategies, Activities, and Interventions to Move Students Beyond Memorization (includes a CD filled with teacher resources in English and Spanish) ISBN# 0-325-02962-8
- emphasizes the big ideas that provide a focus for math facts instruction
- broadens your repertoire of instructional strategies
- provides dozens of easy-to-implement activities to support varied levels of learners
- stimulates your reflection related to teaching math facts.
Through investigations, discussions, visual models, children's literature, and hands-on explorations, students develop an understanding of the concepts of addition and subtraction, and through engaging, interactive practice achieve fluency with basic facts.
A teacher-friendly CD filled with customizable activities, templates, recording sheets, and teacher tools (hundred charts, ten-frames, addition charts, game templates, and assessment options) simplifies your planning and preparation. Over 450 pages of reproducible forms are i ncluded in English and Spanish translation.
Now I Get It: Strategies for Building Confident and Competent Mathematicians, K-6 (includes a CD filled with teacher resources) ISBN# 0-325-00766-7
Chapter topics include:
- balancing the teaching of computation and problem solving
- developing math concepts through manipulatives
- using children’s literature to teach concepts in context
- differentiating math instruction
- incorporating math talk and writing into classroom lessons
Along with a wealth of ideas for classroom activities, the book includes a CD with over 100 pages of resources to support teachers as they implement the ideas including:
- ready-to-print manipulative templates (spinners, grids, number lines, coins, fraction pieces, hundred charts…)
- extensive bibliography of math-related literature categorized by math topics
- math facts game templates
- easy-to-use math center ideas
- varied problem-solving and writing tasks
Many of the manipulative and activity templates on the CD can be easily customized to meet students’ specific needs. Reflection questions after each chapter make this book perfect for teacher study groups or professional development activities.
Now I Get It: Strategies for Building Confident and Competent Mathematicians K-6
Table of Contents
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I. Balancing the Math Program–Concepts, Skills, and Applications
- 1. Problem Solving as the Focus of Math Instruction
- 2. Helping Students Understand Basic Facts and Computations
- 3. Developing Math Concepts Through Manipulatives
- 4. Using Children’s Literature to Teach Mathematics in Contex
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II. Refining Understanding Through Communication
- 5. Guiding Understanding Through Teacher Talk
- 6. Developing the Language of Math
- 7. Students Talking to Students–The Role of Cooperative Learnin
- 8. Writing About Mathematical Understanding
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III. Supporting and Enhancing Instruction
- 9. Reaching Out to All Students Through Differentiated Instruction
- 10. The Role of Technology in Enhancing Teaching and Learning
- 11. Maximizing Parent Involvement
The Math Process Standards Series, Sue O’Connell (series editor)
Math is more than content. Through processes, like problem solving and communication, students explore math ideas and apply their math understandings. And today’s math assessments require students to be proficient with both math content and math processes as they challenge students to solve math problems and communicate about math ideas.
Each book in this new series is a practical guide for teachers – helping them better understand critical math processes and providing them with doable ways to incorporate these processes into their math classrooms. Books in the series include:
- Introduction to Problem Solving
- Introduction to Communication
- Introduction to Representation
- Introduction to Reasoning and Proof
- Introduction to Connections
Books are available in three grade bands (PK-2, 3-5, 6-8). Included with each book is a CD filled with teacher tools (e.g., rubrics, checklists, graphic organizers) and customizable student activities to allow teachers to change names, data, or spacing for a quick way to differentiate instruction within the math classroom. These books are practical resources for individual teachers who want to refine their skills, and are a popular choice for teacher study groups.
For more information on any of the books in this series, go to Heinemann Publishing Company’s website at www.heinemann.com. For additional information on the books written by Sue O’Connell (Introduction to Problem Solving and Introduction to Communication) see the descriptions below.
Introduction to Problem Solving (book and CD with customizable activities)
Grades PK-2 ISBN# 0-325-01105-2
Grades 3-5 ISBN# 0-325-00970-8
Grades 6-8 ISBN# 0-325-01296-4
Introduction to Problem Solving provides immediate help to any teacher attempting to implement problem-solving instruction. The book includes:
- explanations of critical problem-solving skills and strategies
- teacher tips to introduce, develop, and reinforce each critical skill
- samples of student work
- examples of integrated lessons which strengthen students’ problem-solving and math content skills
The accompanying CD contains dozens of resources teachers can put to immediate use, including:
- checklists
- scoring keys
- icons
- approximately 70 practice problems that are in Microsoft Word and can be easily customized to include names, topics, and data that are specific to your students’ needs.
This book is a practical resource for individual teachers who want to refine their skills in teaching math problem solving, and is also a popular choice for teacher study groups.
Introduction to Problem Solving Grades PK-2
ISBN# 0-325-01105-2
Introduction to Problem Solving Grades 3-5
ISBN# 0-325-00970-8
Introduction to Problem Solving Grades 6-8
ISBN# 0-325-01296-4
Introduction to Problem Solving
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Problem-Solving Standard
- 1. Building Math Understanding through Problem Solving
- 2. Guiding Students through the Problem-Solving Process
- 3. Focusing on Problem-Solving Strategies
- 4. Strategy: Choose an Operation
- 5. Strategy: Find a Pattern
- 6. Strategy: Make a Table
- 7. Strategy: Make an Organized List
- 8. Strategy: Draw a Picture or Diagram
- 9. Strategy: Guess, Check, and Revise
- 10. Strategy: Use Logical Reasoning
- 11. Strategy: Work Backward
- 12. Assessing Problem Solving
- 13. Problem Solving Across the Content Standards
- Conclusion: Accepting the Challenge
Introduction to Communication (book and CD with customizable activities)
Grades PK-2 ISBN# 0-325-01236-9
Grades PK-2 ISBN# 0-325-01236-9
Grades 6-8 ISBN# 0-325-01732-7
Introduction to Communication provides practical ideas for incorporating talk and writing into math lessons. The book focuses on the role of language in the math classroom both to build student understanding and to enhance teacher assessment.
It includes:
- strategies for generating productive math talk
- ways to strengthen teacher questioning
- techniques for developing math vocabulary
- ideas for incorporating writing tasks into math lessons
- strategies for helping students more efficiently read math text
- tips for supporting struggling writers
- easy-to-implement ideas for improving the quality of students’ written explanations
The CD contains dozens of resources teachers can put to immediate use, including:
- rubrics
- graphic organizers
- activity templates
- approximately 70 student writing tasks that are in Microsoft Word and can be easily customized to include names, topics, and data that are specific to your students’ needs.
The CD writing activities are perfect preparation for the constructed-response tasks that appear on many state and district assessments.This book is a practical resource for individual teachers who want to refine their understanding of communication (talk and writing) about math, and the reflection questions at the end of each chapter make it a popular choice for teacher study groups.
Introduction to Communication Grades PK-2
ISBN# 0-325-01236-9
Introduction to Communication Grades 3-5
ISBN# 0-325-01236-9
Introduction to Communication Grades 6-8
ISBN# 0-325-01732-7
Introduction to Communication
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Communication Standard
- 1. Exploring the Role of Communication
- 2. Setting the Stage for Communicating in Math Class
- 3. Providing a Context for Math Talk
- 4. Orchestrating Math Talk
- 5. Developing the Language of Math
- 6. Writing to Learn and Learning to Write
- 7. Supporting Students as They Write
- 8. Reading about Math
- 9. Assessing Math Communication
- 10. Communication Across the Content Standards
- Conclusion: Accepting the Challenge
The following books are available through Frank Schaffer Publications:
Order Information:
Phone - 1-800-417-3261 or 1-800-253-5469
Fax – 1-800-543-2690 or 1-888-203-9361
Online – www.TeacherSpecialty.com
Glyphs! Data Communication for Primary Mathematicians (Grades 1-3)
ISBN 1-56417-663-0
Glyphs are a fun and motivating way to get students thinking about data. Glyphs, taken from hieroglyphics, are a way of representing data in pictures. This book contains directions for creating glyphs on a variety of topics from a back-to-school glyph to a rainy day glyph to holiday glyphs. And once the glyphs are created, the book provides a variety of extension activities that guide students in interpreting the data and creating class graphs. This book provides glyphs on topics that span the entire school year and extension activities that will excite and motivate students to analyze and explore the data they have collected.
Professional Articles
To read some articles written by Sue O'Connell, try these NCTM publications-
"Aiming for Understanding: Lessons Learned about Writing in Mathematics". Teaching Children Mathematics vol. 12 no. 4 (November 2005): 192-199.
"Math By The Month - Snacks". Teaching Children Mathematics vol. 3 no. 7 (March 1997):392-393.
"Newspaper: Connecting the Mathematics Classroom to the World". Teaching Children Mathematics vol. 1 no. 5 (January, 1995):268-274.
"Math Pairs: Parents as Partners". Arithmetic Teacher vol. 40 no. 1 (September, 1992): 10-12.
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