Understanding the math we teach and how to teach it: K-8

How students learn math and what math we want them to learn

Focusing instruction on big ideas and mathematical processes

Assessment and evaluation

Planning instruction

Early number

Early operations

Developing fact fluency

Representing larger whole numbers

Estimation and calculation strategies with larger whole numbers

Fractions

Decimals

Ratio and proportion

Extending the number system to negative and irrational numbers

Patterns and algebra

3-D and 2-D shapes

Location and movement

The nature of measurement, with a focus on length and area

Capacity, volume, mass, time, temperature, and angles

Data

Probability.