Thinking With Numbers produces:

Five-Minute Lessons that teachers can use to supplement their mathematics curriculum when teaching basic facts.

A computer-based assessment program designed to collect speed and accuracy data for basic facts and provide teachers information to help them make better instructional decisions.

Basic Facts Lessons

There are four levels in Thinking With Numbers:

• Level One Addition & Subtraction
• Level Two Addition & Subtraction
• Level One Multiplication & Division
• Level Two Multiplication & Division

In each level there are:

• 200 five minute lessons (click on the levels above to view samples)
• Probes to assess the thinking strategies being used
• 50 concrete activities
• 10 previews for each thinking strategy
• Strategy practice pages for each strategy
• Interview Questions with check-off recording sheets to determine student thinking
• teacher friendly suggestions for using the materials

The topics include lessons on number sense. Students are encouraged to use efficient thinking strategies for the basic facts and to extend that thinking to mental computation with larger numbers. About 600 word problems with many different structures are used to insure that students become confident and adept at knowing when and how to apply addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division to a wide variety off real world problems.

To learn more, click on one of the topics below:

Overview of Thinking With Numbers
Teacher Actions in a Student-Centered Approach
Goals and Teaching Strategies
Developing Computational Fluency: Helping Children Make Sense

 

Computer-based Assessment Program

Tracking Achievement: Basic Facts and Mental Mathis a computer program intended to be used for assessment, not instruction. The primary purpose is to collect speed and accuracy data for basic facts, then provide teachers information to help them make better instructional decisions. This program can be used on a single computer at the back of a classroom or it can be installed on a server allowing an entire class of students to use it at the same time. The program will run on Mac OS X and Windows 95/98/ME/XP. Java 1.4, or later, is required.

Highlights include:

• Individual student reports can be generated for a specific thinking strategy for a specific operation, or all the basic fact quizzes can be combined to present an overall report of achievement
• Progress reports for individual students are available providing an indication of the progress that a student has made from any given date to any other given date
• Class reports, similar to those for individual students, are available
• District administrators can generate reports by individual student, teacher, building, grade level, and district
• Student data can be transferred from one year to the next

Click the topic below to:

Sample the program (opens in new window)
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