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 sixth-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.
Jayjay –
Great ideas and forward pedogody as always from the authors
K. Hart –
Awesome book with great lesson activities
David G. Bories –
This book has some very clever activities. We are testing some of the ideas for Algebra now. Ms. Boaler says that almost all students will respond to the activities and that is what we are hoping.
Ajbro123 –
I have a set of these and use them often in the classroom.
Understand, this is not a skill and drill math book, or propaganda for common core.
This is a math book that helps students understand numbers and to think and reason with them flexibly.
To draw a crude analogy: Math worksheets and working toward getting the correct answer: cook, think flexibly with numbers, concept and reasoning: chef.
This will helps children become the “chef” of math, not the “cook”.
As a sidenote, I would not use this book with one child to tutor, or my own child. Rather, this meant to be used in groups of students and children, as the discussions and reasonings are a HUGE component.
JL –
I couldn’t love Jo Boaler/you cube more! The visual math approach and creative side of math have helped my kids to live math. This book helps bring more fun with math to our family. My kids often tell me: I don’t like the boring math they teach in school – let’s do the fun math that I really can understand and we find in life around us. This approach really helps them understand the why behind how math works.
Teresa Vaughn –
Perfect addition to a thinking classroom.
amckichan –
So many excellent activities to supplement any curriculum.
TQ –
I love the way of teaching with Boaler
AO –
Love her books, have all the grade levels. Great things you can take immediately into the classroom
Janet Frost –
I use it with my teacher ed students.
Anthony –
I enjoy Jo’s theory and reasoning provided for lessons. Book is split up into different “big ideas”, similar to Marian Small, however carries a different tone. Activities and lesson sequences are all decent (haven’t used them all). All are multi-strand and hit on the different learning styles experienced in a classroom.
Only thing that has been brought up between myself and some other teachers is thsr the different grades are very similar. It wouldn’t be beneficial for me to purchase the 4 or the 5 as many of the tasks are the same.
RobinA –
Some of the pages were cut wrong but the pages are readable. Love this author.
Lorraine Morford –
Awesome rich tasks!
Jennifer Rivera –
I purchased this book for a masters class for geometry. Math is not my strongest subject but this book was really good. I actually enjoyed the introduction and the chapter I was assigned. I highly recommend it for Geometry teachers grades 8th or 9th.
Kasia Gutierrez –
We can’t recommend this book enough! Reading through Boaler’s previous book, Mathematical Mindset, started us on a journey to radically change our approach to math instruction. This resource helped us apply the principles necessary to support all students with their mindset and to grow as mathematicians. Since reading this, we’ve recommended it to math teachers across all grade levels to support and enrich instruction.
To see more about how Boaler’s work has impacted our journey as educators and parents, see our website at confidencecoaches4kids.com.
Heather Ross –
Totally worth the time and price. If you are a Jo Boaler fan, this book is a great supplement to the training.
swag –
Loved the book.
L12GUV –
Excellent teaching resource gets pupils thinking outside the box. Highly recommended
Krista –
If you teach math, I highly recommend this book. It gives actual lesson plans that give students the concrete and abstract relationship that is important in understanding math concepts. I do not plan on using every lesson but definitely plan on using many of them! Thank you!
Rayna Cooper –
Was hoping it would be more helpful.