Building Powerful Numeracy: Facilitator's Guide - Softcover

Pamela Weber Harris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 098536260X ISBN 13: 9780985362607

Publisher: Pam Harris Consulting, LLC, 2012

Synopsis

A facilitator's guide to delivering professional development based on the book Building Powerful Numeracy for Middle and High School Students by Pamela Weber Harris. Detailed lesson plans include presenter helps, such as discussion questions, sample dialogs, and detailed models. The beginning of each chapter has a handy "at a glance" section that displays the major big ideas, models, strategies, materials needed, and preparation for presenters

About this title

From the Back Cover

Praise for Building Powerful Numeracy for Middle and High School Students

"This book is an outstanding and welcome contribution to the field of mathematics education. It simultaneously addresses the development of numeracy and the extensions to the mathematical ideas taught on the secondary level and does so in a wonderfully engaging, coherent, and thoughtful way. Any secondary teacher reading this book will come away with a far deeper understanding of how to develop numeracy and fluent computation while integrating the more advanced topics that they are required to teach." -Catherine Twomey Fosnot, from the back cover of Building Powerful Numeracy for Middle & High School Students

"In today's world, a person who performs only meaningless computation can be replaced by a calculator that costs only a few dollars. At the same time, the person who can use the language and symbolism of mathematics to design and control the technology needed to solve complex problems is highly valued. In this book, Pam Harris provides teachers of grades 6-12 with detailed instructional scenarios that include suggested questioning to help their students build the mathematical flexibility and fluency needed to be more valuable than a cheap calculator in a problem-solving situation." -Jane F. Schielack, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University

"As the Common Core Standards for School Mathematics usher in a renewed national focus on school mathematics, it is important for teachers to recognized that students need to have opportunities to make sense of mathematics. Pam Harris provides an abundance of such opportunities..." -David Webb, University of Colorado at Boulder, Executive Director, Freudenthal Institute USA, from the Foreword of Building Powerful Numeracy for Middle & High School Students

About the Author

Pamela Weber Harris is the author of Building Powerful Numeracy for Middle and High School Students. Pam, a former secondary mathematics teacher, is a K-12 mathematics education consultant, a T3 (Teachers Teaching with Technology) National Instructor, and a nationally known speaker She presents at conferences and workshops throughout the U.S. on numeracy, assessment, and using technology appropriately in the mathematic classroom.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pam Harris Consulting, LLC
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 098536260X
• ISBN 13: 9780985362607
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 156