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Differentiated Instruction for the Middle School Math Teacher: Activities and Strategies for an Inclusive Classroom
Contributor(s): D'Amico, Karen E. (Author), Gallaway, Kate (Author)
ISBN: 078798468X     ISBN-13: 9780787984687
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
OUR PRICE:   $26.96  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2008
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Annotation: An indispensable collection of standards-based middle school math activities

This essential resource provides middle school math teachers who have inclusive classrooms with a wealth of techniques and activities that can be used right away. It offers teachers key strategies for collaborating, designing and delivering effective differentiated instruction, and measuring success. The book also includes dozens of ready-to-use math activities, which include adaptations for students with different learning needs and reproducible worksheets with answer keys.

Joan D'Amico (Wayne, NJ) is a Learning Disabilities Teacher/Consultant in the Garfield School District in New Jersey. Kate Gallaway (Carmel, CA) has over 15 years of experience and has worked with districts and teachers nationwide on differentiated instruction for mathematics.

Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Mathematics
- Education | Inclusive Education
Dewey: 510.712
LCCN: 2007031401
Series: Jossey-Bass Teacher
Physical Information: 0.62" H x 8.65" W x 10.96" (1.30 lbs) 252 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Mentally Challenged
- Topical - Physically Challenged
 
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Publisher Description:
Differentiated Instruction for the Middle School Math Teacher is a practical and easy-to-use resource for teaching a standards-based math curriculum to all learners. It gives you effective ways to present math concepts, shows how to provide opportunities for guided practice, and offers ideas for modifying the material to provide access to the same content standard for all students in the inclusive classroom. This book also contains key strategies for collaborating with other professionals, suggestions for involving the students' families by tying math concepts to students' everyday lives, and valuable assessment strategies.

The lessons in the book cover middle school math topics correlated to the standards of the National Council of Teachers of Math, ranging from numbers and operations to problem solving and reasoning. Each lesson includes:

  • Instructions for presenting the lesson to the whole class
  • Worksheets designed to help review and reinforce theconcepts presented in each lesson
  • A section on how to adapt the lesson for the inclusive classroom, including descriptions of different stations for different learners
  • A home-school connection with family-based everyday math activities
  • Suggestions for how to assess students' grasp of the concepts presented in the lesson