Solving for Why: Understanding, Assessing, and Teaching Students Who Struggle with Math

By John Tapper

Solving for Why offers educators the tools and guidance essential for successfully solving for why students struggle with mathematics. The step-by-step, RTI (Response to Intervention) - like approaches, focused on assessment and communication with students, help teachers gain insight into student understanding in a remarkably different way that recipe-type approaches that assume the same solution applies to learners with similar struggles.

With Solving for Why you'll learn how to:

identify a struggling math learner; develop theories for why a learner may be struggling; facilitate a Concrete-Representational-Abstract (CRA) Assessment; implement an insightful Collaborative Study; conduct powerful student interviews; support learners who struggle with memory challenges, attention deficit disorder, and affective difficulties (math anxiety); differentiate instruction through a main lesson--menu lesson plan; and more.

Each chapter includes reproducible templates for ease in carrying out the assessments. A final section offers resources for supporting students who struggle with additive reasoning, multiplicative reasoning, fractions, and proportional reasoning. The reproducibles are also available in a downloadable, printable format.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325137633
• ISBN13: 9780325137636
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.0" x 10.0"
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 8