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The Math Pact, Elementary: Achieving Instructional Coherence Within and Across Grades
A school-wide solution for students' mathematics success!
Do you sometimes start to teach a mathematics concept and feel like you're staring at a sea of bewildered faces? What happens when you discover students previously learned a calculation trick or a mnemonic that has muddied their long-term understanding? When "rules" seem to change from year to year, teacher to teacher, or school to school, mathematics can seem like a disconnected mystery for students. Clear up the confusion with a Mathematics Whole-School Agreement!
Expanded from the highly popular "Rules that Expire" series of NCTM articles, this essential guide leads educators through the collaborative step-by-step process of establishing a coherent and consistent learner-centered and equitable approach to mathematics instruction. Through this work, you will identify, streamline, and become passionate about using clear and consistent mathematical language, notations, representations, rules, and generalizations within and across classrooms and grades. Importantly, you'll learn to avoid "rules that expire"--tricks that may seem to help students in one grade but hurt in the long run. Features of this book include
- Abundant grade-specific examples
- Effective working plans for sustainability
- Barrier-busting tips, to-dos, and try-it-outs
- Practical templates and checklists
- PLC prompts and discussion points
When teachers unite across grades, students hit the ground running every year. Take the next step together as a team and help all your students build on existing understanding to find new success and most importantly, love learning and doing mathematics!
Do you sometimes start to teach a mathematics concept and feel like you're staring at a sea of bewildered faces? What happens when you discover students previously learned a calculation trick or a mnemonic that has muddied their long-term understanding? When "rules" seem to change from year to year, teacher to teacher, or school to school, mathematics can seem like a disconnected mystery for students. Clear up the confusion with a Mathematics Whole-School Agreement!
Expanded from the highly popular "Rules that Expire" series of NCTM articles, this essential guide leads educators through the collaborative step-by-step process of establishing a coherent and consistent learner-centered and equitable approach to mathematics instruction. Through this work, you will identify, streamline, and become passionate about using clear and consistent mathematical language, notations, representations, rules, and generalizations within and across classrooms and grades. Importantly, you'll learn to avoid "rules that expire"--tricks that may seem to help students in one grade but hurt in the long run. Features of this book include
- Abundant grade-specific examples
- Effective working plans for sustainability
- Barrier-busting tips, to-dos, and try-it-outs
- Practical templates and checklists
- PLC prompts and discussion points
When teachers unite across grades, students hit the ground running every year. Take the next step together as a team and help all your students build on existing understanding to find new success and most importantly, love learning and doing mathematics!
- GenresEducationNonfiction
208 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 19, 2020
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July 15, 2022
This was an excellent guide for aligning math content across a school and/or district. I can't wait to enact this with my teachers.
February 5, 2023
If you are a math coach or instructional leader, you should definitely read this one - and then start up a MWSA at your school!
October 3, 2025
Excellent book for a school study. We used this book as a guide to create our own whole school math agreement. Faculty loved this book.
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July 29, 2026Great ideas for universal math language and thought process for educators!
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