Classroom-Ready Rich Math Tasks, Grades K-1
Engaging Students in Doing Math
Beth McCord Kobett
- Stevenson University
Francis M. Fennell
- McDaniel College, USA
Karen S. Karp
- Johns Hopkins University
Delise R. Andrews
- Lincoln Public Schools, Nebraska
Jeffrey Chen Shih
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
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Detailed plans for helping elementary students experience deep mathematical learning
Do you work tirelessly to make your math lessons meaningful, challenging, accessible, and engaging? Do you spend hours you don’t have searching for, adapting, and creating tasks to provide rich experiences for your students that supplement your mathematics curriculum? Help has arrived! Classroom Ready-Rich Math Tasks for Grades K-1 details 56 research- and standards-aligned, high-cognitive-demand tasks that will have your students doing deep-problem-based learning. These ready-to-implement, engaging tasks connect skills, concepts and practices, while encouraging students to reason, problem-solve, discuss, explore multiple solution pathways, connect multiple representations, and justify their thinking. They help students monitor their own thinking and connect the mathematics they know to new situations. In other words, these tasks allow students to truly do mathematics! Written with a strengths-based lens and an attentiveness to all students, this guide includes:
• Complete task-based lessons, referencing mathematics standards and practices, vocabulary, and materials
• Downloadable planning tools, student resource pages, and thoughtful questions, and formative assessment prompts
• Guidance on preparing, launching, facilitating, and reflecting on each task
• Notes on access and equity, focusing on students’ strengths, productive struggle, and distance or alternative learning environments.
With concluding guidance on adapting or creating additional rich tasks for your students, this guide will help you give all of your students the deepest, most enriching and engaging mathematics learning experience possible.
Do you work tirelessly to make your math lessons meaningful, challenging, accessible, and engaging? Do you spend hours you don’t have searching for, adapting, and creating tasks to provide rich experiences for your students that supplement your mathematics curriculum? Help has arrived! Classroom Ready-Rich Math Tasks for Grades K-1 details 56 research- and standards-aligned, high-cognitive-demand tasks that will have your students doing deep-problem-based learning. These ready-to-implement, engaging tasks connect skills, concepts and practices, while encouraging students to reason, problem-solve, discuss, explore multiple solution pathways, connect multiple representations, and justify their thinking. They help students monitor their own thinking and connect the mathematics they know to new situations. In other words, these tasks allow students to truly do mathematics! Written with a strengths-based lens and an attentiveness to all students, this guide includes:
• Complete task-based lessons, referencing mathematics standards and practices, vocabulary, and materials
• Downloadable planning tools, student resource pages, and thoughtful questions, and formative assessment prompts
• Guidance on preparing, launching, facilitating, and reflecting on each task
• Notes on access and equity, focusing on students’ strengths, productive struggle, and distance or alternative learning environments.
With concluding guidance on adapting or creating additional rich tasks for your students, this guide will help you give all of your students the deepest, most enriching and engaging mathematics learning experience possible.
Contents
Chapter 1: Doing-Math Tasks: What Are They, Why Are They Important, and How Do I Plan for Implementation?
Chapter 1: Doing-Math Tasks: What Are They, Why Are They Important, and How Do I Plan for Implementation?
Chapter 2: Laying the Groundwork for Teaching With Doing-Math Tasks
Chapter 2: Laying the Groundwork for Teaching With Doing-Math Tasks
Chapter 3: Implementing a Doing-Math Task-Based Lesson
Chapter 3: Implementing a Doing-Math Task-Based Lesson
Chapter 4: Counting and Cardinality: Counting and Writing Numbers
Chapter 4: Counting and Cardinality: Counting and Writing Numbers
Chapter 5: Counting and Cardinality: Counting Objects
Chapter 5: Counting and Cardinality: Counting Objects
Chapter 6: Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Patterns and Relationships
Chapter 6: Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Patterns and Relationships
Chapter 7: Counting and Comparing
Chapter 7: Counting and Comparing
Chapter 8: Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Addition and Subtraction
Chapter 8: Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Addition and Subtraction
Chapter 9: Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Addition and Subtraction Relationships
Chapter 9: Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Addition and Subtraction Relationships
Chapter 10: Number and Operations in Base Ten: Place Value
Chapter 10: Number and Operations in Base Ten: Place Value
Chapter 11: Number and Operations in Base Ten: Adding and Subtracting
Chapter 11: Number and Operations in Base Ten: Adding and Subtracting
Chapter 12: Measurement: Comparing, Ordering, Sorting, and Informal Measurement
Chapter 12: Measurement: Comparing, Ordering, Sorting, and Informal Measurement
Chapter 13: Measurement: Time
Chapter 13: Measurement: Time
Chapter 14: Data: Represent and Interpret Data
Chapter 14: Data: Represent and Interpret Data
Chapter 15: Geometry: Distinguishing Attributes and Naming and Identifying Shapes
Chapter 15: Geometry: Distinguishing Attributes and Naming and Identifying Shapes
Chapter 16: Geometry: Composing Shapes and Equal Shares
Chapter 16: Geometry: Composing Shapes and Equal Shares
Chapter 17: Your Turn
Chapter 17: Your Turn
Description
Detailed plans for helping elementary students experience deep mathematical learning
Do you work tirelessly to make your math lessons meaningful, challenging, accessible, and engaging? Do you spend hours you don’t have searching for, adapting, and creating tasks to provide rich experiences for your students that supplement your mathematics curriculum? Help has arrived! Classroom Ready-Rich Math Tasks for Grades K-1 details 56 research- and standards-aligned, high-cognitive-demand tasks that will have your students doing deep-problem-based learning. These ready-to-implement, engaging tasks connect skills, concepts and practices, while encouraging students to reason, problem-solve, discuss, explore multiple solution pathways, connect multiple representations, and justify their thinking. They help students monitor their own thinking and connect the mathematics they know to new situations. In other words, these tasks allow students to truly do mathematics! Written with a strengths-based lens and an attentiveness to all students, this guide includes:
• Complete task-based lessons, referencing mathematics standards and practices, vocabulary, and materials
• Downloadable planning tools, student resource pages, and thoughtful questions, and formative assessment prompts
• Guidance on preparing, launching, facilitating, and reflecting on each task
• Notes on access and equity, focusing on students’ strengths, productive struggle, and distance or alternative learning environments.
With concluding guidance on adapting or creating additional rich tasks for your students, this guide will help you give all of your students the deepest, most enriching and engaging mathematics learning experience possible.
Do you work tirelessly to make your math lessons meaningful, challenging, accessible, and engaging? Do you spend hours you don’t have searching for, adapting, and creating tasks to provide rich experiences for your students that supplement your mathematics curriculum? Help has arrived! Classroom Ready-Rich Math Tasks for Grades K-1 details 56 research- and standards-aligned, high-cognitive-demand tasks that will have your students doing deep-problem-based learning. These ready-to-implement, engaging tasks connect skills, concepts and practices, while encouraging students to reason, problem-solve, discuss, explore multiple solution pathways, connect multiple representations, and justify their thinking. They help students monitor their own thinking and connect the mathematics they know to new situations. In other words, these tasks allow students to truly do mathematics! Written with a strengths-based lens and an attentiveness to all students, this guide includes:
• Complete task-based lessons, referencing mathematics standards and practices, vocabulary, and materials
• Downloadable planning tools, student resource pages, and thoughtful questions, and formative assessment prompts
• Guidance on preparing, launching, facilitating, and reflecting on each task
• Notes on access and equity, focusing on students’ strengths, productive struggle, and distance or alternative learning environments.
With concluding guidance on adapting or creating additional rich tasks for your students, this guide will help you give all of your students the deepest, most enriching and engaging mathematics learning experience possible.
Contents
Chapter 1: Doing-Math Tasks: What Are They, Why Are They Important, and How Do I Plan for Implementation?
Chapter 1: Doing-Math Tasks: What Are They, Why Are They Important, and How Do I Plan for Implementation?
Chapter 2: Laying the Groundwork for Teaching With Doing-Math Tasks
Chapter 2: Laying the Groundwork for Teaching With Doing-Math Tasks
Chapter 3: Implementing a Doing-Math Task-Based Lesson
Chapter 3: Implementing a Doing-Math Task-Based Lesson
Chapter 4: Counting and Cardinality: Counting and Writing Numbers
Chapter 4: Counting and Cardinality: Counting and Writing Numbers
Chapter 5: Counting and Cardinality: Counting Objects
Chapter 5: Counting and Cardinality: Counting Objects
Chapter 6: Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Patterns and Relationships
Chapter 6: Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Patterns and Relationships
Chapter 7: Counting and Comparing
Chapter 7: Counting and Comparing
Chapter 8: Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Addition and Subtraction
Chapter 8: Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Addition and Subtraction
Chapter 9: Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Addition and Subtraction Relationships
Chapter 9: Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Addition and Subtraction Relationships
Chapter 10: Number and Operations in Base Ten: Place Value
Chapter 10: Number and Operations in Base Ten: Place Value
Chapter 11: Number and Operations in Base Ten: Adding and Subtracting
Chapter 11: Number and Operations in Base Ten: Adding and Subtracting
Chapter 12: Measurement: Comparing, Ordering, Sorting, and Informal Measurement
Chapter 12: Measurement: Comparing, Ordering, Sorting, and Informal Measurement
Chapter 13: Measurement: Time
Chapter 13: Measurement: Time
Chapter 14: Data: Represent and Interpret Data
Chapter 14: Data: Represent and Interpret Data
Chapter 15: Geometry: Distinguishing Attributes and Naming and Identifying Shapes
Chapter 15: Geometry: Distinguishing Attributes and Naming and Identifying Shapes
Chapter 16: Geometry: Composing Shapes and Equal Shares
Chapter 16: Geometry: Composing Shapes and Equal Shares
Chapter 17: Your Turn
Chapter 17: Your Turn
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Classroom-Ready Rich Math Tasks, Grades K-1
Engaging Students in Doing Math
Beth McCord Kobett
,
Francis M. Fennell
,
Karen S. Karp
,
Delise R. Andrews
,
Latrenda D. Knighten
,
Jeffrey Chen Shih
April 2021 | 336 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 01/02/2026 | 9781544399102 | $40.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/02/2026 | 9781071841242 | $37.00 |
Detailed plans for helping elementary students experience deep mathematical learning
Do you work tirelessly to make your math lessons meaningful, challenging, accessible, and engaging? Do you spend hours you don’t have searching for, adapting, and creating tasks to provide rich experiences for your students that supplement your mathematics curriculum? Help has arrived! Classroom Ready-Rich Math Tasks for Grades K-1 details 56 research- and standards-aligned, high-cognitive-demand tasks that will have your students doing deep-problem-based learning. These ready-to-implement, engaging tasks connect skills, concepts and practices, while encouraging students to reason, problem-solve, discuss, explore multiple solution pathways, connect multiple representations, and justify their thinking. They help students monitor their own thinking and connect the mathematics they know to new situations. In other words, these tasks allow students to truly do mathematics! Written with a strengths-based lens and an attentiveness to all students, this guide includes:
• Complete task-based lessons, referencing mathematics standards and practices, vocabulary, and materials
• Downloadable planning tools, student resource pages, and thoughtful questions, and formative assessment prompts
• Guidance on preparing, launching, facilitating, and reflecting on each task
• Notes on access and equity, focusing on students’ strengths, productive struggle, and distance or alternative learning environments.
With concluding guidance on adapting or creating additional rich tasks for your students, this guide will help you give all of your students the deepest, most enriching and engaging mathematics learning experience possible.
Do you work tirelessly to make your math lessons meaningful, challenging, accessible, and engaging? Do you spend hours you don’t have searching for, adapting, and creating tasks to provide rich experiences for your students that supplement your mathematics curriculum? Help has arrived! Classroom Ready-Rich Math Tasks for Grades K-1 details 56 research- and standards-aligned, high-cognitive-demand tasks that will have your students doing deep-problem-based learning. These ready-to-implement, engaging tasks connect skills, concepts and practices, while encouraging students to reason, problem-solve, discuss, explore multiple solution pathways, connect multiple representations, and justify their thinking. They help students monitor their own thinking and connect the mathematics they know to new situations. In other words, these tasks allow students to truly do mathematics! Written with a strengths-based lens and an attentiveness to all students, this guide includes:
• Complete task-based lessons, referencing mathematics standards and practices, vocabulary, and materials
• Downloadable planning tools, student resource pages, and thoughtful questions, and formative assessment prompts
• Guidance on preparing, launching, facilitating, and reflecting on each task
• Notes on access and equity, focusing on students’ strengths, productive struggle, and distance or alternative learning environments.
With concluding guidance on adapting or creating additional rich tasks for your students, this guide will help you give all of your students the deepest, most enriching and engaging mathematics learning experience possible.
Table Of Contents:
- Chapter 1: Doing-Math Tasks: What Are They, Why Are They Important, and How Do I Plan for Implementation?
- Chapter 2: Laying the Groundwork for Teaching With Doing-Math Tasks
- Chapter 3: Implementing a Doing-Math Task-Based Lesson
- Chapter 4: Counting and Cardinality: Counting and Writing Numbers
- Chapter 5: Counting and Cardinality: Counting Objects
- Chapter 6: Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Patterns and Relationships
- Chapter 7: Counting and Comparing
- Chapter 8: Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Addition and Subtraction
- Chapter 9: Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Addition and Subtraction Relationships
- Chapter 10: Number and Operations in Base Ten: Place Value
- Chapter 11: Number and Operations in Base Ten: Adding and Subtracting
- Chapter 12: Measurement: Comparing, Ordering, Sorting, and Informal Measurement
- Chapter 13: Measurement: Time
- Chapter 14: Data: Represent and Interpret Data
- Chapter 15: Geometry: Distinguishing Attributes and Naming and Identifying Shapes
- Chapter 16: Geometry: Composing Shapes and Equal Shares
- Chapter 17: Your Turn
Recent Product Reviews:
This book’s title reveals its promise. Classroom-Ready Rich Math Tasks offers teachers an abundant collection of practical challenges for engaging their students in building mathematical fluency and developing strategic reasoning—exactly what all the Mathematics Standards expect.
Jay McTighe, Author and Educator
This book is exactly what every K–1 teacher needs! The 56 tasks are engaging, easily implemented, and most important, ‘classroom ready.’ The instructional strategies presented in the beginning chapters and the reflections emphasized in the last chapter provide the appropriate foundation for teachers of young children. As an experienced K–1 teacher, I guarantee that I would use the ideas presented and would encourage others to do so.
Juanita Copley, Professor Emerita
As a district math leader, I appreciate this series because I know that any task my teachers choose will be high quality. I also appreciate the research-informed coaching provided in the first few chapters that will guide my teachers through selecting, planning, and implementing tasks to maximize their potential.
Brian Bushart, Elementary Mathematics Curriculum Coordinator
Megan Franke, Interim Chair and Professor of Education
The core of great math teaching is the high-quality task, brought to life through rich interactions. These tasks must be engaging and both mathematically and pedagogically generative—of interesting content and mathematical processes and practices. This valuable book is filled with such tasks, as well as guidance in planning and implementing them and materials for maximum enjoyment and benefit for teachers and their students.
Douglas H. Clements, Distinguished University Professor, Kennedy Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Learning, and Executive Director of the Marsico Institute for Early Learning