Strengths-Based Teaching and Learning in Mathematics

NEW COVID RESOURCES ADDED: A Parent s Toolkit to Strengths-Based Learning in Math is now available on the book s companion website to support families engaged in math learning at home. This toolkit provides a variety of home-based activities and games for families to engage in together.***

Your game plan for unlocking mathematics by focusing on students strengths.***

What if instead of focusing on what students haven t mastered, we identify their mathematical strengths and build on students points of power? Beth McCord Kobett and Karen S. Karp highlight five key teaching turnarounds are presented: identify teaching strengths, leverage students strengths, design instruction from a strengths-based perspective, help students identify their points of power, and promote strengths in the school community. Each chapter provides opportunities to reflect and transfer practice while also sharing

· Downloadable resources, activities, and tools

· Examples of student work within Grades K 6

· Real teachers notes and reflections for discussion

This book is a game changer! Strengths-Based Teaching and Learning in Mathematics: 5 Teaching Turnarounds for Grades K- 6 goes beyond simply providing information by sharing a pathway for changing practice. . . Focusing on our students strengths should be routine and can be lost in the day-to-day teaching demands. A teacher using these approaches can change the trajectory of students lives forever. All teachers need this resource!

Connie S. Schrock
Emporia State University
National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics President, 2017-2019

NEW COVID RESOURCES ADDED: A Parent s Toolkit to Strengths-Based Learning in Math is now available on the book s companion website to support families engaged in math learning at home. This toolkit provides a variety of home-based activities and games for families to engage in together.

Your game plan for unlocking mathematics by focusing on students strengths.

We often evaluate student thinking and their work from a deficit point of view, particularly in mathematics, where many teachers have been taught that their role is to diagnose and eradicate students misconceptions. But what if instead of focusing on what students don t know or haven t mastered, we identify their mathematical strengths and build next instructional steps on students points of power?

Beth McCord Kobett and Karen S. Karp answer this question and others by highlighting five key teaching turnarounds for improving students mathematics learning: identify teaching strengths, discover and leverage students strengths, design instruction from a strengths-based perspective, help students identify their points of power, and promote strengths in the school community and at home. Each chapter provides opportunities to stop and consider current practice, reflect, and transfer practice while also sharing

· Downloadable resources, activities, and tools

· Examples of student work within Grades K 6

· Real teachers notes and reflections for discussion

It s time to turn around our approach to mathematics instruction, end deficit thinking, and nurture each student s mathematical strengths by emphasizing what makes them each unique and powerful.

Autorentext

Beth McCord Kobett serves as Professor and Dean in the School of Education at Stevenson University, where she works closely with early childhood, elementary, and middle school preservice teachers. She brings experience as a classroom teacher, mathematics specialist, and university supervisor. Beth served on the NCTM Board and served as president of Association of Maryland Mathematics Teacher Educators. Beth has authored ten mathematics education books and supports professional learning efforts nationwide. She has been honored with awards such as the MCTM Mathematics Educator of the Year and Stevenson's Rose Dawson Award for Excellence in Teaching. Deeply committed to her students, she strives to create a supportive, strengths-based learning environment that fosters curiosity, collaboration, and meaningful growth.

Karen S. Karp is a mathematics educator who focuses on the intersection of mathematics education and special education. She is a former professor at Johns Hopkins University and at the University of Louisville where she is professor emerita. Early in her career she received a Development Award from the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation to support more seamless integration between general education and special education. She is the author or co-author of numerous publications including Assisting Students Struggling with Mathematics: Intervention in the Elementary Grades and Elementary and Middle School Mathematics. Karen was on the writing team of the NCTM/CEC Joint position statement on Teaching Mathematics to Students with Learning Disabilities. In 2024, she chaired the Topic Study Group on Teaching Mathematics to Students with Special Needs at the International Congress on Mathematical Education in Australia. She holds teaching/administrative certifications in elementary education, secondary mathematics, K-12 special education, and K-12 educational administration.

Klappentext

NEW COVID RESOURCES ADDED: A Parent's Toolkit to Strengths-Based Learning in Math is now available on the book's companion website to support families engaged in math learning at home. This toolkit provides a variety of home-based activities and games for families to engage in together.***

Your game plan for unlocking mathematics by focusing on students' strengths.***

What if instead of focusing on what students haven't mastered, we identify their mathematical strengths and build on students' points of power? Beth McCord Kobett and Karen S. Karp highlight five key teaching turnarounds are presented: identify teaching strengths, leverage students' strengths, design instruction from a strengths-based perspective, help students identify their points of power, and promote strengths in the school community. Each chapter provides opportunities to reflect and transfer practice while also sharing

· Downloadable resources, activities, and tools

· Examples of student work within Grades K-6

· Real teachers' notes and reflections for discussion

Zusammenfassung
Teaching turnarounds encourage productive struggle by identifying teacher and student strengths, designing strengths-based instruction, discovering students' points of power, and promoting strengths in the school community.

Inhalt

Foreword
Introduction - An Invitation to Turnaround
Why Strengths-Based Instruction?
Who is Strengths-Based Mathematics Teaching For?
What are Mathematics Strengths we See in Students?
Exploring Your Own Math Identity
Moving to a Strengths-Based Perspective
Practices that Build a Strengths Cycle
The Five Teaching Turnarounds
Chapter 1 - Identify Your Teaching Strengths
What Do You Believe About Your Students Learning?
What Do Students Think You Believe?
Summary
Chapter 2 - Turnaround Mathematical Proficiencies, Processes, and Practices
Building Mathematical Proficiency Through a Strengths-Based Lens
Building Mathematical Practices and Dispositions Through a Strengths-Based Lens
Building Strengths in Problem Solving
Building Strengths in Communication
Building Strengths in Reasoning and Proof
Building Strengths in Connections
Building Strengths in Representations
Summary
Chapter 3 - Your Students' Mathematics Content Strengths
Building Mathematical Content Knowledge Through a Strengths-Based Lens
Building and Recognizing Strengths in the Meaning of Number and Operations and Algebraic Thinking
Count to show how numbers represent quantity
Count to show how numbers represent quantity
Develop Strategies to Add, Subtract, Multiply, and Divide
Building and Recognizing Strengths in Understanding Number a…