Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. Math by all means. The authors believe that classroom instruction should focus on giving children a variety of division problems to solve, those having remainders and those without, helping them both to relate sharing with grouping and to use their knowledge of the other number operations to explore both types of division. The range of activities provided are intended to encourage children to construct their own understanding of division in its full complexity via interactions with teachers, conversations with other students, opportunities to work with concrete materials, and problems that make them think about numbers.
Writing is incorporated as an integral part of childrens mathematics learning.
The whole class lessons are designed to provide a common set of introductory experiences on which children can build their understanding of the unit topic. Menu activities allow children to work independently, whether in pairs, groups, or individually. These activities do not build on each other, but rather pose problems, set up situations, and ask questions that help children interact with the unit topic. Woven through each unit are descriptions of what happened when the material was taught to an actual class at the appropriate grade level. These vignettes provide a view of how the lessons were organized, how children reacted, and how a teacher responded in one classroom, but are not intended as a standard of what should happen.