Book 1 of 9: Mindset Mathematic (9 books)
Engage students in mathematics using growth mindset techniques
The most challenging parts of teaching mathematics are engaging students and helping them understand the connections between mathematics concepts. In this volume, you’ll find a collection of low floor, high ceiling tasks that will help you do just that, by looking at the big ideas at the third-grade level through visualization, play, and investigation.
During their work with tens of thousands of teachers, authors Jo Boaler, Jen Munson, and Cathy Williams heard the same message―that they want to incorporate more brain science into their math instruction, but they need guidance in the techniques that work best to get across the concepts they needed to teach. So the authors designed Mindset Mathematics around the principle of active student engagement, with tasks that reflect the latest brain science on learning. Open, creative, and visual math tasks have been shown to improve student test scores, and more importantly change their relationship with mathematics and start believing in their own potential. The tasks in Mindset Mathematics reflect the lessons from brain science that:
- There is no such thing as a math person – anyone can learn mathematics to high levels.
- Mistakes, struggle and challenge are the most important times for brain growth.
- Speed is unimportant in mathematics.
- Mathematics is a visual and beautiful subject, and our brains want to think visually about mathematics.
With engaging questions, open-ended tasks, and four-color visuals that will help kids get excited about mathematics, Mindset Mathematics is organized around nine big ideas which emphasize the connections within the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and can be used with any current curriculum.
Kimball Malone Scott –
Brilliant!!!
Peggy Loutzenhiser –
Love the book
angelo –
good
Shanna C –
Great information that helps me grow as a teacher.
dara dascoli –
Super easy to follow. I was able to do these tasks without much planning as it’s laid out clearly.
Maisy S –
This is the perfect math book with lots of ideas! Love Jo!
Lynette Harper –
Easy to use. Multi grade applicable.
Saffron –
It’s a lovely book, obviously geared for the American curriculum, so you have to pick and choose if you’re working in a non-American school. The activities are well structured, there’s a variety of ideas and suggestions for support/further development. Furthermore, the tips for what to be aware of alongside aspects of children’s learning and understanding are really useful. The authors’ style of writing is clear and easy to follow, making it very useful for those whose university days are a long way back! I would have liked to see the specific learning objectives at the start of each activity, as this would open it up for teachers working outside of the US school system.
Michelle –
This is a must-have for the classroom and you cannot beat the price. This is a fantstic resource with incredible activities that are engaging! Do not pass this up.
Teresa W –
Awesome
Sanjay Singh –
Good for those who believe in teaching elementary maths using visualization.
Angie H. Wade –
This book is a wonderful supplement to the math curriculum. It contains lesson plans that make mathematics real for the students.
Maggie Williams Flint –
Everyone who has kids or teaches needs to read this
Lori Moss –
worked great
JP –
I love this book. We have worked with a number of the activities in our math class. It engages minds and imaginations. The activities truly do have a “high ceiling and a low floor”. They work for everyone. Worth a try.
VZ112311 –
This book is amazing! I love the learning philosophy and the activities are interesting and engaging for my third grader. It helps me try to replicate what my child is missing by no longer being at school during this pandemic… investigative, experiential, fun learning… and not just watching online lectures and filling out worksheets. Yes, the book is written for teachers in a classroom setting, but the lessons are easy to implement at home. None of the actual activities require a group. The lessons do require a lot of discussion, which you must do with your child. This is not a book you can give your child to work on independently.
msv –
If this were used in more schools, more students would love math! This is interesting, creative, real, brain-stretching math. The grade levels are to cover certain bases, but actually the activities and concepts go further than that label. Just because the book says “Grade 3” doesn’t mean you can’t use it for higher or lower grades.
Jeannine T. –
I bought two other books in this series. Very good books. The parent or teacher needs to be involved while working through the book.
Bonnie B –
I love these low floor/high ceiling activities. I use them whenever I want to increase engagement and understanding of my “regular” lessons.
Jessica Davis –
A really nice book! It has helped me to understand how to approach math with my child! Overall, I recommend!
Cindy M –
I got this at the end of last school year and I picked out 3 lessons to do before the end of the year. The math talk and math thinking I got from my students was better than I expected. We will be using this much more in the coming school year.
HT –
I don’t like how these math activities get reused in multiple books. I understand the argument for it, but it feels kinda lazy at the end of the day.