"A new addition to our Month-to-Month Guide series, this volume shares hundreds of practices and routines to support teachers as they prepare and present a meaningful year of mathematics instruction for fifth graders. The book’s activities, lessons, and narration can be easily adapted to fit the particular needs of students or the requirements of prescribed curricula. The resource also includes games, tasks that provide opportunities curricula. The resource also includes games, tasks that provide opportunities
for mathematics writing, suggestions for communicating with parents, and assessment practices."
Lainie Schuster has been a classroom teacher for more than 30 years. She is the Head of Lower School and Lower School Math Curriculum Coordinator and teaches fourth and fifth grade math at the Fay School in Southborough, Massachusetts. Lainie is also coauthor of Good Questions for Math Teaching: Why Ask Them and What to Ask, Grades 5-8 (Math Solutions Publications, 2005), author of A Month-to-Month Guide: Fourth-Grade Math (Math Solutions Publications, 2009), and a Math Solutions instructor.