Mathematics and Science

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Ideas and materials to help improve mathematics and science achievement.

Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics

This book addresses the concern about how children are learning mathematics drawing on research that portrays the mathematics children need to learn, how they learn it, and how it might be taught to them effectively.

Attaining Excellence: TIMSS as a Starting Point to Examine Mathematics Assessments

This assessment module contains two publications which can be used to compare mathematics curricula and assessment frameworks against national and international benchmarks.

Fractions and Some Cool Distractions (Video)

These three videotapes contain 14 sections on concepts and skills for fractions. Each VHS tape contains animated segments, live instruction, explanation of how to apply the skills to problems, and practice problems.

How Students Learn: History, Mathematics, and Science in the Classroom

This book explores how the principles of learning can be applied in teaching history, science, and math in elementary, middle, and high school. Leading educators explain how they developed successful curricula and teaching approaches.

IMAGES Professional Development Manual

This mathematics professional development manual is intended for use with K-8 teachers, and provides a sample agenda with detailed hands-on presentation plans for the five strands of measurement and geometry included in the program.

IMAGES: Improving Measurement and Geometry in Elementary Schools: A Resource Guide

This mathematics resource book is for teachers of grades K-5 and presents mathematics content for both teachers and students, as well as provides strategies for teaching and assessing concepts of geometry and measurement.

Improving Mathematics Education: Resources for Decision Making

This guide summarizes research findings and policy recommendations from eight documents related to mathematical content, effective teaching and learning, and assessment.

Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics: Teachers' Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics in China and the United States

The book explores how teachers' deep understanding of basic mathematics contributes to their students' success. The central message is that the quality of knowledge gained, for both teachers and students, is more important than its quantity.

Math in Motion: Origami in the Classroom (K-8)

The book helps teachers discover how to connect math manipulatives across the curriculum, organize your classroom for active participation, and create an exciting hands-on math learning environment.

Science Education in the United States: Issues, Crises and Priorities

The fundamental objective of this volume is not only to describe the state of science education in the United States, but also to evaluate and analyze the present crisis so that solutions can evolve.

Teaching Mathematics in Seven Countries: TIMSS Video Study

This four-CD set includes videos from eighth grade mathematics lessons in seven countries and aims to facilitate teacher learning and serve as a professional development resource.