It's All Connected: The Power of Representation to Build Algebraic Reasoning, Grades 6-9 (It’s All Connected)

It's All Connected focuses on the power of representation to build algebraic reasoning, offering a collection of 40 quick lessons (each takes less than thirty minutes). The lessons feature: creative exercises that illustrate key concepts associated with the graphical representation of functions; reproducible pages on which students can record their work (provided within the resource and downloadable online at www.mathsolutions.com/itsallconnectedalgebrareproducibles); correlations to the Common Core State Standards; teaching insights, and more.

 Frances Van Dyke is an Associate Professor at American University in Washington, DC, where she teaches courses in mathematics and mathematics education. She was also an associate professor at Central Connecticut State University where she taught for ten years. Franny completed her undergraduate degree at Vassar College, A Master of Arts in Teaching: Mathematics, at the University of Chicago, and her doctorate degree in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of A Visual Approach to Algebra (Dale Seymore, 1998) and A Visual Approach to Functions (Key Curriculum Press, 2002).