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 * Children's Literature to Integrate w/Math** Steve Jenkins books, i.e. //Actual Size//

**Professional Books for Teachers** Teach Like a Champion From Amazon: //Teach Like a Champion// offers effective teaching techniques to help teachers, especially those in their first few years, become champions in the classroom. These powerful techniques are concrete, specific, and are easy to put into action the very next day. Training activities at the end of each chapter help the reader further their understanding through reflection and application of the ideas to their own practice.

"Doug Lemov's //Teach Like a Champion// is a breakthrough book that is both visionary and comprehensive. If you are a teacher who wants to increase the academic success of your students, you should read this book. If you are an administrator with the same goal, you must get this book into the hands of your teachers!" –LEE CANTER, author of //Assertive Discipline//

Young Mathematicians at Work: Constructing Algebra

From Amazon: In //Constructing Algebra//, Catherine Twomey Fosnot and Bill Jacob help teachers recognize, support, and celebrate their students- capacity to structure their worlds algebraically. They identify for teachers the models, contexts, and landmarks that facilitate algebraic thinking in young students, supporting children as they construct mathematical strategies and big ideas, creating realistic contexts and representational models that develop children's capacity to mathematize their world, and building a collaborative community of mathematical thinkers engaged in inquiry.

Good Questions: Great Ways to Differentiate Mathematics Instruction

From Amazon: We know that differentiated instruction helps all students to learn. Yet DI challenges teachers, and nowhere more than in mathematics. Now math education expert Marian Small cuts through the difficulties with two powerful and universal strategies that teachers can use across all math content: Open Questions and Parallel Tasks. Showing teachers how to get started and become expert with these strategies, Small also demonstrates more inclusive learning conversations that promote broader student participation. Specific strategies and examples for each grade band are organized around the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) content strands: Number and Operations, Geometry, Measurement, Algebra, and Data Analysis and Probability.