The Well-Rounded Math Student by Martinie, Sherri L.; Lane, Jessica; Stramel, Janet;

Short description:

Integrate a holistic approach to mathematics success with essential personal and social skills

Teaching math is more than just numbers. It’s about shaping future-ready students who are not only academically strong but thrive socially and emotionally. Research shows that learning both intrapersonal and interpersonal skills helps students academically, and teachers play a crucial role in providing social-emotional support.

The Well-Rounded Math Student helps mathematics teachers in Grades K-12 foster both their students' academic prowess and their social and emotional development. Through the lens of the Standards for Mathematical Practice, the book emphasizes the importance of intentionally teaching and promoting intrapersonal and interpersonal skills, or "Next Generation" skills, alongside mathematical concepts. The authors provide step-by-step guidance on how small adjustments in lesson planning can have a profound impact on students' growth.

Providing teachers with a new lens to leverage in their planning as well as concrete ways to use their mathematics lessons to explicitly teach and reinforce social and emotional competencies, this book:

• Holds a strengths-based mindset and approach—for both teachers and students
  


• Highlights the importance of the science and the art of teaching to enhance social development, human connection, classroom management, and community within classrooms
  


• Stresses that the overarching goal of education is to help students become responsible adults who are ready for their future
  


• Includes a lesson planning guide, competency builder activities, vignettes of enhanced lessons across grade bands, reflection questions, and suggestions for taking action

The Well-Rounded Math Student bridges critical intrapersonal and interpersonal elements to help educators create an environment where students excel in math and develop the life skills they’ll carry forever.

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Long description:

Integrate a holistic approach to mathematics success with essential personal and social skills

Teaching math is more than just numbers. It’s about shaping future-ready students who are not only academically strong but thrive socially and emotionally. Research shows that learning both intrapersonal and interpersonal skills helps students academically, and teachers play a crucial role in providing social-emotional support.

The Well-Rounded Math Student helps mathematics teachers in Grades K-12 foster both their students' academic prowess and their social and emotional development. Through the lens of the Standards for Mathematical Practice, the book emphasizes the importance of intentionally teaching and promoting intrapersonal and interpersonal skills, or "Next Generation" skills, alongside mathematical concepts. The authors provide step-by-step guidance on how small adjustments in lesson planning can have a profound impact on students' growth.

Providing teachers with a new lens to leverage in their planning as well as concrete ways to use their mathematics lessons to explicitly teach and reinforce social and emotional competencies, this book:

• Holds a strengths-based mindset and approach—for both teachers and students
  


• Highlights the importance of the science and the art of teaching to enhance social development, human connection, classroom management, and community within classrooms
  


• Stresses that the overarching goal of education is to help students become responsible adults who are ready for their future
  


• Includes a lesson planning guide, competency builder activities, vignettes of enhanced lessons across grade bands, reflection questions, and suggestions for taking action

The Well-Rounded Math Student bridges critical intrapersonal and interpersonal elements to help educators create an environment where students excel in math and develop the life skills they’ll carry forever.

Recognizing that students need to learn social and emotional skills is one thing; helping them do so is another. This book can help you do just that. With its easy-to-follow structure, The Well-Rounded Math Student offers us ways to help students develop both intra- and interpersonal skills through specific instructional strategies situated within the context of mathematical activities, such as problem-solving, reasoning, argumentation, and precision, and brought to life with real classroom examples.

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Table of Contents:

List of Competency Builders
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Introduction: The Role of Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Competencies in Mathematics Education
Chapter 1: Building Self-Efficacy in Problem-Solving for Math and Daily Life
Chapter 2: Fostering Self-Regulation and Sustained Attention While Reasoning Abstractly and Quantitatively
Chapter 3: Growing Self-Awareness and Social Awareness Through Constructing and Critiquing Arguments
Chapter 4: Promoting Decision-Making When Modeling With Mathematics
Chapter 5: Using Mathematical Tools to Build Adaptability and Decision-Making Skills
Chapter 6: Fostering Self-Awareness and Self-Efficacy Through Attending to Precision
Chapter 7: Leveraging Adaptability to Find and Use Structure
Chapter 8: Increasing Perseverance by Exploring Repeated Reasoning
Chapter 9: From Awareness to Action: Final Thoughts on Merging Social-Emotional Competencies With Math Practices
References
Index

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