Strengthen teaching and deepen learning of number skills and concepts
From “Mystery Number” to “Hot Lava Bridge,” the forty classroom-tested lessons in It Makes Sense: Using Number Paths and Number Lines to Build Number Sense promote the flexible use of number paths and number lines to solve problems and scaffold or document students’ thinking.
A wealth of teacher supports
The step-by-step lessons are presented in three categories:
- Introductory ideas (focused on the structure and use of number paths and number lines)
- Lessons (activities that encourage the use of the tools for thinking about numbers, their magnitude, and their relationship to each other)
- Games (opportunities for students to develop numerical fluency, think strategically, and play cooperatively)
The lessons offer a wealth of teacher support, including:
- strategies for differentiating instruction
- key questions to promote student thinking
- “A Child’s Mind” insights sharing common student misconceptions
- “Math Matters!” tips highlighting mathematical definitions, research summaries, and learning scenarios
- teacher reflections
- more than thirty reproducibles, also available in a downloadable, printable format
