Teaching Student-Centered Mathematics, Grades 3-5

This is required text for my teaching degree this year. It's an excellent book, which covers all curriculum areas in mathematics. It explains how children learn and understand, covers the stages of children's learning, provides practical activities to do, assists in finding relationships/connections to past learning and includes lesson planning and assessment. It is very comprehensive yet written in a way which makes it easy for anyone to read and understand. I highly recommend it for parents and teachers alike.

Great book. My entire staff is reading this book and beginning to implement some of the lessons from the book. The first chapter alone should be read by every person teaching Mathematics. It really helps teachers think about why we teach the way we do, how kids develop an understanding of Math and why we have to do things differently.

I like this book, I own both K-2 & 3-5. There's alot of overlap so I recommend which ever age group you would use it with more.

A professor recommended Van de Walle's books to me so I bought this one. This book explains how to teach math so that students build on existing knowledge, rather than learn sets of algorithms without understanding their meaning. It offers a range of specific lessons for all math topics for grades 5 - 8, it explains how to teach the same topics to diverse learners, how to teach to the standards. It comes with amazing templates that are downloadable. It shows you how to take advantage of your existing math textbook, supplementing it to make it more student-focused.

Van de Walle breaks down problem based classrooms in an understandable format. This book really helps teachers hone their skills in hands on/problem based teaching for mathematics. There are lots of activities to help you teach your students. This book is a must have for 5-8 Mathematics teachers.