"Marian Small has written the kind of book teachers will keep on their closest shelf as they explore and return to the big ideas of mathematics. In her new resource, Understanding the Math We Teach and How to Teach It, Small brings the support and insight teachers need to be able to teach math with clarity and confidence"-- Provided by publisher.

Chapter 1: How Students Learn Math and What Math We Want Them to Learn -- Chapter 2: Focusing Instruction on Big Ideas and Mathematical Processes -- Chapter 3: Assessment and Evaluation -- Chapter 4: Planning Instruction -- Chapter 5: Early Number -- Chapter 6: Early Operations -- Chapter 7: Developing Fact Fluency -- Chapter 8: Representing Larger Whole Numbers -- Chapter 9: Estimation and Calculation Strategies with Larger Whole Numbers -- Chapter 10: Fractions -- Chapter 11: Decimals -- Chapter 12: Ratio and Proportion -- Chapter 13: Extending the Number System to Negative and Irrational Numbers - Chapter 14: Patterns and Algebra -- Chapter 15: 3-D and 2-D Shapes -- Chapter 16: Location and Movement -- Chapter 17: The Nature of Measurement, with a Focus on Length and Area 5 -- Chapter 18: Volume, Mass, Time, and Angles -- Chapter 19: Data -- Chapter 20: Probability -- Index.