Nurturing Math Curiosity With Learners in Grades K–2 (Grow your students’ math curiosity.) - Softcover

Chepina Rumsey; Jody Guarino

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1960574361 ISBN 13: 9781960574367

Publisher: Solution Tree Press, 2024

Synopsis

Building students’ confidence and conceptual understanding early sets a solid foundation for reasoning and exploration. Nurturing Math Curiosity With Learners in Grades K–2 offers educational tools and strategies teachers can use to integrate mathematical argumentation in early elementary classrooms, allowing space for students’ natural wonder and curiosity to shine while, at the same time, providing opportunities for students to see mathematics content in a new light.

This book will help K–2 teachers:

• Discover ways to explore early mathematical concepts
• Integrate classroom community building, teacher tools, and instructional strategies to nurture an environment of playful exploration
• Read real examples from teachers who have implemented argumentation in their classrooms
• Follow the layers of argumentation through an in-depth concrete example
• Reflect as mathematics learners with features that activate prior knowledge

Contents:
Introduction
Part 1: Nurturing Our Classroom Community and Growing Our Teacher Toolbox
Chapter 1: Creating a Vision
Chapter 2: Nurturing a Classroom Community
Chapter 3: Growing Our Teacher Toolbox
Chapter 4: Connecting the Classroom Environment and Teacher Toolbox Through Routines
Part 2: Growing the Layers of Argumentation
Chapter 5: Exploring the First Layer—Notice, Wonder, and Beyond
Chapter 6: Exploring the Second Layer—Conjecturing
Chapter 7: Exploring the Third Layer—Justifying
Chapter 8: Exploring the Fourth Layer—Extending
Part 3: Growing More Mathematical Ideas
Chapter 9: Finding Opportunities for Argumentation
Chapter 10: Using Children’s Literature to Engage in Argumentation
Epilogue
Appendix A: Blank Template
Appendix B: Choral Counting
Appendix C: Number of the Day
Appendix D: Number of the Day With Annotations
Appendix E: True or False?
Appendix F: Mathematical Ideas Across Chapters
References and Resources
Index

About this title

About the Author

Chepina Rumsey, PhD, is an associate professor of mathematics education at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa. In her content and methods courses, she prepares elementary and early childhood majors to teach mathematics in their own future classrooms. She is a former elementary school teacher who loves learning along with her students and integrating all subject areas. Chepina focuses on learning mathematics through exploration, building on students’ natural curiosity and wonder.
Chepina received a BA in mathematics and a BS in elementary education from Keene State College, an MA in mathematics from Illinois State University, and a PhD in mathematics education from Illinois State University.

Jody Guarino, EdD, is manager of the Teaching, Learning and Instructional Leadership Collaborative, where she supports teaching and learning within coherent instructional systems at the Orange County Department of Education. In this work, she engages with teachers and instructional leaders, supporting professional learning, teacher collaboration, classroom content, and instructional leader coaching in the areas of elementary mathematics and English language arts. She is also a lecturer in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine.
Jody received a bachelor’s degree in sociology and communications from the University of Southern California, a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from California State University, Fullerton, and a doctorate in education leadership from Azusa Pacific University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1960574361
• ISBN 13: 9781960574367
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Cathy Seeley, Jennifer Bay-Williams