Power Up Your Math Community

A 10-Month Practice-Based Professional Learning Guide, Grades K-5
Power Up Your Math Community
September 2024 | 448 pages | Corwin
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A yearlong learning adventure designed to help you build a vibrant math community

A powerful math community is an active group of educators, students, and families, alive with positive energy, efficacy, and a passion for mathematics. Students, teachers, and leaders see themselves and each other as mathematically capable and experience mathematics as a joyful activity.

Power Up Your Math Community is a hands-on, 10-month guide designed to help you and your school maximize your students’ math learning and strengthen your mathematics teaching and learning community. Each chapter offers a month’s worth of practice-based professional learning focused on a desired math habit alongside parallel math problems and learning activities for teachers to use themselves and with students. This format allows educators to work together to improve math teaching and learning across a school year, building a strong foundation for students' mathematical proficiency, identity, and agency.

The book ignites solutions and advocates for rigorous and joyful mathematics instruction for everyone—including school leaders, teachers, students, and their families. Authors Holly Burwell and Sue Chapman provide educators with a detailed roadmap for creating a positive and effective math community that supports all students' mathematical learning by

  • Offering guidance on building a math community with chapter vignettes and prompts such as Mathematical Me, Let’s Do Some Math, Since We Met Last, Let’s Try It, Math Talks, Manipulatives and Models Matter, Game Time, and more
  • Emphasizing an assets-based approach to teaching math that recognizes the unique strengths and experiences of each student
  • Providing strategies for promoting growth mindset in math and equity and inclusion in math education
  • Focusing on both classroom-level and building-level improvement as well as offering support for teachers, instructional coaches, principals, and district leaders

Power Up Your Math Community will inspire you to reimagine the way you teach math and empower you with the tools to make a lasting impact on your students' mathematical understanding. So, get ready to power up your math community and watch as your students thrive in their mathematical journey!

Contents

Foreword by John SanGiovanni

Foreword by John SanGiovanni

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

About the Authors

About the Authors

Chapter 1: Getting Ready to Power Up Your Math Community

Chapter 1: Getting Ready to Power Up Your Math Community

Chapter 2: August - We are all math learners!

Chapter 2: August - We are all math learners!

Chapter 3: September - We expect math to make sense!

Chapter 3: September - We expect math to make sense!

Chapter 4: October - We love challenging math problems!

Chapter 4: October - We love challenging math problems!

Chapter 5: November - We learn from math mistakes!

Chapter 5: November - We learn from math mistakes!

Chapter 6: December - We see ourselves as mathematicians!

Chapter 6: December - We see ourselves as mathematicians!

Chapter 7: January - We talk about math!

Chapter 7: January - We talk about math!

Chapter 8: February - We represent math in different ways!

Chapter 8: February - We represent math in different ways!

Chapter 9: March - We make math connections!

Chapter 9: March - We make math connections!

Chapter 10: April - We look for and use math patterns!

Chapter 10: April - We look for and use math patterns!

Chapter 11: May - We are powerful mathematicians!

Chapter 11: May - We are powerful mathematicians!

Epilogue

Epilogue

Appendix

Appendix

Glossary

Glossary

References

References

Resources

Companion Website

https://qrs.ly/vqfn1s2

Additional materials

Description

A yearlong learning adventure designed to help you build a vibrant math community

A powerful math community is an active group of educators, students, and families, alive with positive energy, efficacy, and a passion for mathematics. Students, teachers, and leaders see themselves and each other as mathematically capable and experience mathematics as a joyful activity.

Power Up Your Math Community is a hands-on, 10-month guide designed to help you and your school maximize your students’ math learning and strengthen your mathematics teaching and learning community. Each chapter offers a month’s worth of practice-based professional learning focused on a desired math habit alongside parallel math problems and learning activities for teachers to use themselves and with students. This format allows educators to work together to improve math teaching and learning across a school year, building a strong foundation for students' mathematical proficiency, identity, and agency.

The book ignites solutions and advocates for rigorous and joyful mathematics instruction for everyone—including school leaders, teachers, students, and their families. Authors Holly Burwell and Sue Chapman provide educators with a detailed roadmap for creating a positive and effective math community that supports all students' mathematical learning by

  • Offering guidance on building a math community with chapter vignettes and prompts such as Mathematical Me, Let’s Do Some Math, Since We Met Last, Let’s Try It, Math Talks, Manipulatives and Models Matter, Game Time, and more
  • Emphasizing an assets-based approach to teaching math that recognizes the unique strengths and experiences of each student
  • Providing strategies for promoting growth mindset in math and equity and inclusion in math education
  • Focusing on both classroom-level and building-level improvement as well as offering support for teachers, instructional coaches, principals, and district leaders

Power Up Your Math Community will inspire you to reimagine the way you teach math and empower you with the tools to make a lasting impact on your students' mathematical understanding. So, get ready to power up your math community and watch as your students thrive in their mathematical journey!

Contents

Foreword by John SanGiovanni

Foreword by John SanGiovanni

Preface

Preface

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

About the Authors

About the Authors

Chapter 1: Getting Ready to Power Up Your Math Community

Chapter 1: Getting Ready to Power Up Your Math Community

Chapter 2: August - We are all math learners!

Chapter 2: August - We are all math learners!

Chapter 3: September - We expect math to make sense!

Chapter 3: September - We expect math to make sense!

Chapter 4: October - We love challenging math problems!

Chapter 4: October - We love challenging math problems!

Chapter 5: November - We learn from math mistakes!

Chapter 5: November - We learn from math mistakes!

Chapter 6: December - We see ourselves as mathematicians!

Chapter 6: December - We see ourselves as mathematicians!

Chapter 7: January - We talk about math!

Chapter 7: January - We talk about math!

Chapter 8: February - We represent math in different ways!

Chapter 8: February - We represent math in different ways!

Chapter 9: March - We make math connections!

Chapter 9: March - We make math connections!

Chapter 10: April - We look for and use math patterns!

Chapter 10: April - We look for and use math patterns!

Chapter 11: May - We are powerful mathematicians!

Chapter 11: May - We are powerful mathematicians!

Epilogue

Epilogue

Appendix

Appendix

Glossary

Glossary

References

References

Resources

Companion Website

https://qrs.ly/vqfn1s2

Additional materials

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Power Up Your Math Community

A 10-Month Practice-Based Professional Learning Guide, Grades K-5


September 2024 | 448 pages | Corwin

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Paperback 01/01/2025 9781071936887 $42.95
Lifetime 01/01/2025 9781071963067 $39.00

A yearlong learning adventure designed to help you build a vibrant math community

A powerful math community is an active group of educators, students, and families, alive with positive energy, efficacy, and a passion for mathematics. Students, teachers, and leaders see themselves and each other as mathematically capable and experience mathematics as a joyful activity.

Power Up Your Math Community is a hands-on, 10-month guide designed to help you and your school maximize your students’ math learning and strengthen your mathematics teaching and learning community. Each chapter offers a month’s worth of practice-based professional learning focused on a desired math habit alongside parallel math problems and learning activities for teachers to use themselves and with students. This format allows educators to work together to improve math teaching and learning across a school year, building a strong foundation for students' mathematical proficiency, identity, and agency.

The book ignites solutions and advocates for rigorous and joyful mathematics instruction for everyone—including school leaders, teachers, students, and their families. Authors Holly Burwell and Sue Chapman provide educators with a detailed roadmap for creating a positive and effective math community that supports all students' mathematical learning by

  • Offering guidance on building a math community with chapter vignettes and prompts such as Mathematical Me, Let’s Do Some Math, Since We Met Last, Let’s Try It, Math Talks, Manipulatives and Models Matter, Game Time, and more
  • Emphasizing an assets-based approach to teaching math that recognizes the unique strengths and experiences of each student
  • Providing strategies for promoting growth mindset in math and equity and inclusion in math education
  • Focusing on both classroom-level and building-level improvement as well as offering support for teachers, instructional coaches, principals, and district leaders

Power Up Your Math Community will inspire you to reimagine the way you teach math and empower you with the tools to make a lasting impact on your students' mathematical understanding. So, get ready to power up your math community and watch as your students thrive in their mathematical journey!


Table Of Contents:

  • Foreword by John SanGiovanni
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • About the Authors
  • Chapter 1: Getting Ready to Power Up Your Math Community
  • Chapter 2: August - We are all math learners!
  • Chapter 3: September - We expect math to make sense!
  • Chapter 4: October - We love challenging math problems!
  • Chapter 5: November - We learn from math mistakes!
  • Chapter 6: December - We see ourselves as mathematicians!
  • Chapter 7: January - We talk about math!
  • Chapter 8: February - We represent math in different ways!
  • Chapter 9: March - We make math connections!
  • Chapter 10: April - We look for and use math patterns!
  • Chapter 11: May - We are powerful mathematicians!
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix
  • Glossary
  • References

Recent Product Reviews:

Burwell and Chapman provide so many resources that help people see that everyone is a math person. Through vignettes, math examples, talking about mistakes, teaching tips, portfolios, and more, this book has it all!
Howie Hua, Fresno State
I highly recommend Power Up Your Math Community for teachers, instructional coaches, principals, and district leaders! I love the seamless focus on both the classroom and school level, grounded in the implementation of effective instructional practices in a supportive community and developing this as a school-wide commitment. One of my favorite aspects is how the authors balance the true heart of teaching while simultaneously advocating for systemic change. You will love all the helpful features!
Sarah B. Bush, University of Central Florida
Innovative, empowering, practical, and inspirational, Power Up Your Math Community is a groundbreaking must-read for any educator looking to transform their math education program. Readers will learn how to take a holistic, collaborative, and humanistic approach to professional learning—one that creates an inclusive, enthusiastic learning environment that empowers teachers to create classrooms where learning mathematics becomes a joyous, deeply engaging journey for students and teachers alike.
Chase Orton
All that is missing is the bow! This book offers a package of professional learning sessions that can be used by all educators who seek to grow their understandings and expand their teaching toolkits for mathematics. When teachers engage in learning and reflect on their practice, students’ learning ultimately benefits!
Susie Katt, Lincoln Public Schools
Power Up will Improve your Math PLC exponentially. Math instructional coaches can stop searching for tools to prompt math growth. It’s all here. Instruction, games, student tasks, and reflection prompts.
Carrie Cutler, University of Houston

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