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Working with the Number Line, Grade 2 (CD)

Fosnot,Catherine Twomey Fosnot

Designed for workshop participants and preservice teachers, the Working with the Number Line CD-ROM offers users a multi-media learning environment for professional development on topics ranging from instruction to assessment.

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Exploring Ages, Grade 3 (CD)

Fosnot,Catherine Twomey Fosnot

This CD-ROM offers users a multi-media learning environment for professional development on topics ranging from instruction to assessment.

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Investigating Number Sense, Addition, and Subtraction, Grades K-3

Catherine Twomey Fosnot

The rich, open investigations we’ve developed allow children to engage in mathematizing in a variety of ways. We honor children’s initial attempts at structuring and modeling their world mathematically, while…

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Enquiring Teachers, Enquiring Learners: Constructivist Approach for Teaching

Catherine Twomey Fosnot

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Young Mathematicians at Work: Constructing Number Sense, Addition, and Subtraction

Catherine, Twomey Fosnot,Maarten Dolk

The first in a three-volume set, Young Mathematicians at Work focuses on young children between the ages of four and eight as they construct a deep understanding of number and…

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Constructivism: Theory, Perspectives, and Practice

Catherine Twomey Fosnot

This enduring bestseller remains the most comprehensive examination of constructivism and its relationship to teaching and learning. Closing the gap between theory and practice, well-known scholars make constructivism accessible by…

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Fostering Children’s Mathematical Development, Grades 5-8 (CD): The Landscape of Learning

Maarten Dolk,Catherine Twomey Fosnot,Fosnot

Video clips from classrooms provide opportunities to observe, analyze, and discuss children’s development of the ideas, strategies, and models of fractions, decimals, and percents.

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Minilessons for Operations with Fractions, Decimals, and Percents, Grades 5-8 (CD)

Maarten Dolk,Catherine Twomey Fosnot,Fosnot

In Minilessons for Operations with Fractions, Decimals, and Percents clips of teachers conducting effective minilessons in real classrooms show you how these short, focused sessions can build big mathematical thinking…

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Exploring Playgrounds, Grades 5-8 (CD): A Context for Multiplication of Fractions

Maarten Dolk,Catherine Twomey Fosnot,Fosnot

In Exploring Playgrounds, participants can interact with footage of seventh graders:

constructing big ideas related to multiplying fractions
making connections to multiplication’s commutative property
uncovering the relationship between fractional parts…

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Games for Early Number Sense: A Yearlong Resource

Antonia Cameron,Catherine Twomey Fosnot,Catherine Twomey Fosnot

Games for Early Number Sense is one of three yearlong resource guides in Contexts for Learning Mathematics Investigating Number Sense, Addition, and Subtraction (K3) Games for Early Number Sense contains…

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Young Mathematicians at Work: Constructing Fractions, Decimals, and Percents

Catherine, Twomey Fosnot,Maarten Dolk

This third volume in a series of three focuses on how children in grades 5-8 construct their knowledge of fractions, decimals and percents. It explores the historical development of fractions…

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Young Mathematicians at Work: Constructing Multiplication and Division

This second volume in a series of three focuses on how to develop an understanding of multiplication and division in grades 3-5. It discusses several ways to engage and support…

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Turkey Investigations: A Context for Multiplication

Maarten Dolk,Catherine Twomey Fosnot

Participants will observe third graders as they begin to construct ideas about multiplication. Exploring weights and measures over three days, the children invent strategies such as repeated addition on the…

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Exploring Soda Machines: A Context for Division

Maarten Dolk,Catherine Twomey Fosnot

Participants will observe fourth graders as they construct the connection between partitive and quotative division and the inverse relationships between multiplication and division. Carefully crafted problems will both generate a…

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Working with the Array: Mathematical Models

Maarten Dolk,Catherine Twomey Fosnot

Presents a video-based digital context for inquiry into the teaching and learning of mathematics. Designed the workshop participant or preservice teacher, this CD-ROM enables you to watch and interact with…

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Working with the Ratio Table, Grades 5-8 (CD): Mathematical Models

Maarten Dolk,Catherine Twomey Fosnot

In Working with the Ratio Table, participants can interact with footage of sixth graders:

solving carefully crafted problems that highlight ratio tables and other division models constructing big ideas related…

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Sharing Submarine Sandwiches, Grades 5-8 (CD): A Context for Fractions

Maarten Dolk,Catherine Twomey Fosnot

In Sharing Submarine Sandwiches, participants can interact with footage of fifth graders: constructing big ideas related to fractions solving carefully crafted problems that help children generalize strategies to all fractions…

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Minilessons for Extending Multiplication and Division: A Yearlong Resource

Willem Uttenbogaard,Catherine Twomey Fosnot,Willem Uittenbogaard,Willem Uttenbogaard

Minilessons for Extending Multiplication and Division is one of two yearlong resource guides in Contexts for Learning Mathematics Investigating Multiplication and Division (35) Minilessons for Extending Multiplication and Division can…

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Young Mathematicians at Work: Constructing Algebra

Catherine Twomey Fosnot,William Jacob

In this third volume in a series of three, Fosnot and Dolk focus on how children in grades 58 construct their knowledge of fractions, decimals, and percents.

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Ymaw Fostering Children’s Mathematical Development, Grades 5-8 (Resource Package): The Landscape of Learning

Antonia Cameron,Maarten Dolk,Catherine Twomey Fosnot,Sherrin B Hersch,Fosnot

Designed for the workshop leader or college instructor, this Resource Package enables your in- or preservice teachers to watch and interact with video that depicts classroom teachers as they listen…

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Minilessons for Operations with Fractions, Decimals, and Percents: A Yearlong Resource

Willem Uttenbogaard,Kara IMM,Catherine Twomey Fosnot,Catherine Twomey Fosnot

Minilessons for Operations with Fractions is a yearlong resource guide in Contexts for Learning Mathematics’ Investigating Fractions, Decimals, and Percents (4-6) Minilessons for Operations with Fractions, Decimals, and Percents is…

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Working with the Array: Mathematical Models

Antonia Cameron,Maarten Dolk,Catherine Twomey Fosnot,Sherrin B. Hersch

Useful for workshop leaders or college instructors, this title enables your in- or pre-service teachers to interact with video that depicts classroom teachers as they interpret students’ thinking. It helps…

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Sharing Submarine Sandwiches, Grades 5-8 (Resource Package): A Context for Fractions

Antonia Cameron,Maarten Dolk,Catherine Twomey Fosnot,Sherrin B Hersch

In their series of professional books for teachers, Young Mathematicians at Work, Catherine Twomey Fosnot and Maarten Dolk described Mathematics in the City, an innovative project where teachers helped young…

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