Mindset mathematics : visualizing and investigating big ideas, grade 4

Boaler, Jo 1964- (author.). Munson, Jen, 1977- (author.). Williams, Cathy, 1962- (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 9781119358800
ISBN: 1119358809
Physical Description: print
v, 263 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, [2017]

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Grade 4.

Formatted Contents Note:

Machine generated contents note: Low-Floor, High-Ceiling Tasks -- Youcubed Summer Camp -- Memorization versus Conceptual Engagement -- Mathematical Thinking, Reasoning, and Convincing -- Big Ideas -- Structure of the Book -- Activities for Building Norms -- Encouraging Good Group Work -- Paper Folding: Learning to Reason, Convince, and Be Skeptical -- Paper Folding: Learning to Reason, Convince, and Be a Skeptic -- Big Idea 1 Seeing Patterns inside Numbers -- Visualize: Visualizing Numbers -- Play: What Could It Be? -- Investigate: How Flexible Is a Number? -- Big Idea 2 Building and Designing with Shapes and Angles -- Visualize: Tile It! -- Play: Those Crazy Rep-Tiles -- Investigate: Polyiamonds -- Big Idea 3 Making and Naming Number Patterns -- Visualize: Finding Fibonacci -- Play: Pattern Carnival -- Investigate: All Hail! -- Big Idea 4 Units Are a Relationship -- Visualize: It's All in the Axes -- Play: Measure Up -- Investigate: 10,000 Steps -- Big Idea 5 Modeling with Unit Fractions -- Visualize: Perplexing Measures -- Play: Tangram Designs -- Investigate: Pixeled Fractions -- Big Idea 6 Exploring Fraction Equivalence -- Visualize: Painting Pieces -- Play: Color-Coding Fractions -- Investigate: Tiling Rectangles -- Big Idea 7 Illustrating Multiplication and Division -- Visualize: Visual Proof -- Play: Cover the Field -- Investigate: Turning It Inside Out: What's the Missing Side? -- Big Idea 8 Using Operations Flexibly -- Visualize: How Crowded Is the Crowd? -- Play: Target 20 -- Investigate: Supply Parade -- Big Idea 9 What Is a Decimal? -- Visualize: Finding the Better Deal -- Play: Decimals on a Line -- Investigate: Can You Make It? -- Appendix -- Centimeter Dot Paper -- Isometric Dot Paper -- Grid Paper -- 1/4" Dot Paper -- 1/4" Grid Paper -- Hundred Grids.