Classroom-Ready Rich Math Tasks, Grades 2-3
Engaging Students in Doing Math
Beth McCord Kobett
- Stevenson University
Francis M. Fennell
- McDaniel College, USA
Karen S. Karp
- Johns Hopkins University
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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 2-3 details 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 2-3 details 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: Operations and Algebraic Thinking – Representing and Solving Problems
Chapter 4: Operations and Algebraic Thinking – Representing and Solving Problems
Chapter 5: Operations and Algebraic Thinking – Multiplication and Division Foundations
Chapter 5: Operations and Algebraic Thinking – Multiplication and Division Foundations
Chapter 6: Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Understanding & Interpreting Operations
Chapter 6: Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Understanding & Interpreting Operations
Chapter 7: Number and Operations in Base Ten – Using Place Value Understandings
Chapter 7: Number and Operations in Base Ten – Using Place Value Understandings
Chapter 8: Number and Operations in Base Ten – Adding, Subtracting, and More
Chapter 8: Number and Operations in Base Ten – Adding, Subtracting, and More
Chapter 9: Number and Operations in Base Ten – Adding, Subtracting, and Multiplying
Chapter 9: Number and Operations in Base Ten – Adding, Subtracting, and Multiplying
Chapter 10: Numbers and Operations: Fractions – Partitioning and Representing
Chapter 10: Numbers and Operations: Fractions – Partitioning and Representing
Chapter 11: Number and Operations: Fractions – Equivalence, Comparing, and Representing
Chapter 11: Number and Operations: Fractions – Equivalence, Comparing, and Representing
Chapter 12: Measurement: Time, Money, Length and Weight
Chapter 12: Measurement: Time, Money, Length and Weight
Chapter 13: Measurement and Data: Measuring and Representing and Interpreting Data
Chapter 13: Measurement and Data: Measuring and Representing and Interpreting Data
Chapter 14: Geometric Measurement: Measurement, Perimeter, and Area
Chapter 14: Geometric Measurement: Measurement, Perimeter, and Area
Chapter 15: Geometry: Reasoning with Shapes and their Attributes
Chapter 15: Geometry: Reasoning with Shapes and their Attributes
Chapter 16: Your Turn
Chapter 16: Your Turn
Appendix A: Task-Lesson Template
Appendix A: Task-Lesson Template
Appendix B: Formative Assessment Tools
Appendix B: Formative Assessment Tools
References
References
Index
Index
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 2-3 details 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 2-3 details 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: Operations and Algebraic Thinking – Representing and Solving Problems
Chapter 4: Operations and Algebraic Thinking – Representing and Solving Problems
Chapter 5: Operations and Algebraic Thinking – Multiplication and Division Foundations
Chapter 5: Operations and Algebraic Thinking – Multiplication and Division Foundations
Chapter 6: Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Understanding & Interpreting Operations
Chapter 6: Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Understanding & Interpreting Operations
Chapter 7: Number and Operations in Base Ten – Using Place Value Understandings
Chapter 7: Number and Operations in Base Ten – Using Place Value Understandings
Chapter 8: Number and Operations in Base Ten – Adding, Subtracting, and More
Chapter 8: Number and Operations in Base Ten – Adding, Subtracting, and More
Chapter 9: Number and Operations in Base Ten – Adding, Subtracting, and Multiplying
Chapter 9: Number and Operations in Base Ten – Adding, Subtracting, and Multiplying
Chapter 10: Numbers and Operations: Fractions – Partitioning and Representing
Chapter 10: Numbers and Operations: Fractions – Partitioning and Representing
Chapter 11: Number and Operations: Fractions – Equivalence, Comparing, and Representing
Chapter 11: Number and Operations: Fractions – Equivalence, Comparing, and Representing
Chapter 12: Measurement: Time, Money, Length and Weight
Chapter 12: Measurement: Time, Money, Length and Weight
Chapter 13: Measurement and Data: Measuring and Representing and Interpreting Data
Chapter 13: Measurement and Data: Measuring and Representing and Interpreting Data
Chapter 14: Geometric Measurement: Measurement, Perimeter, and Area
Chapter 14: Geometric Measurement: Measurement, Perimeter, and Area
Chapter 15: Geometry: Reasoning with Shapes and their Attributes
Chapter 15: Geometry: Reasoning with Shapes and their Attributes
Chapter 16: Your Turn
Chapter 16: Your Turn
Appendix A: Task-Lesson Template
Appendix A: Task-Lesson Template
Appendix B: Formative Assessment Tools
Appendix B: Formative Assessment Tools
References
References
Index
Index
Reviews
Classroom-Ready Rich Math Tasks, Grades 2-3
Engaging Students in Doing Math
Beth McCord Kobett
,
Francis M. Fennell
,
Karen S. Karp
,
Desiree Yvonne Harrison
,
Barbara Ann Swartz
June 2021 | 368 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 01/02/2026 | 9781544399133 | $40.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/02/2026 | 9781071841266 | $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 2-3 details 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 2-3 details 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: Operations and Algebraic Thinking – Representing and Solving Problems
- Chapter 5: Operations and Algebraic Thinking – Multiplication and Division Foundations
- Chapter 6: Operations and Algebraic Thinking: Understanding & Interpreting Operations
- Chapter 7: Number and Operations in Base Ten – Using Place Value Understandings
- Chapter 8: Number and Operations in Base Ten – Adding, Subtracting, and More
- Chapter 9: Number and Operations in Base Ten – Adding, Subtracting, and Multiplying
- Chapter 10: Numbers and Operations: Fractions – Partitioning and Representing
- Chapter 11: Number and Operations: Fractions – Equivalence, Comparing, and Representing
- Chapter 12: Measurement: Time, Money, Length and Weight
- Chapter 13: Measurement and Data: Measuring and Representing and Interpreting Data
- Chapter 14: Geometric Measurement: Measurement, Perimeter, and Area
- Chapter 15: Geometry: Reasoning with Shapes and their Attributes
- Chapter 16: Your Turn
- Appendix A: Task-Lesson Template
- Appendix B: Formative Assessment Tools
- References
- Index
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, McTighe and Associates Consulting
“I highly recommend this book, which provides a research-based framework for engaging in rich tasks that are connected to and build on previous mathematical understanding, relevant contexts, and students’ experiences and resources, as well as connecting to mathematics teaching practice. The 55 high cognitively demanding tasks included support the development of important mathematics norms, practices, and concepts.”
Robert Q. Berry, III, University of Virginia
“By integrating the latest research with a powerful teacher voice, the authors have written a must-read for every teacher of mathematics who wants their students to have a more motivating and powerful classroom experience. But the authors don’t simply argue that teachers include high-cognitive demand tasks in their teaching—they take the next steps and actually demonstrate how to plan for, implement, and support these tasks so each student can authentically engage in doing mathematics!”
Matt Larson, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
“This book answers the often-asked question, ‘Where can I find good tasks?’ The authors have assembled a collection of rich mathematical tasks and provided guidance on how to plan and implement lessons around them in ways that will support opportunities for students to learn mathematics with understanding. This book is a game changer for 2nd and 3rd grade teachers who want their students to do math!”
Margaret (Peg) Smith, University of Pittsburgh
“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, University of Denver