Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally (7th Edition)

Every elementary math teacher should read this. It has both instructional practices that you can flip to when you need help and detailed descriptions as to why they help. It also lays out how skills fit in an overall framework.

In addition to using this wonderful textbook, I was also lucky enough to have Dr. Karp (one of the coauthors) as my math methods teacher while working on my Masters of Arts in Teaching for Elementary Education. This book really challenges your assumptions of what math is and how to best learn math. The book advocates for a problem-based approach. The job of the teacher then, is to create engaging problems that the students then attempt to solve in a way that they construct. Most often, this leads to the students constructing their own accurate algorithm for addition, multiplication, etc. The students I've worked with have been learning math in this new way for several years now and their problem-solving abilities are phenomenal. And really, the ability to solve problems is what we should be trying to teach students. If you want to move beyond teaching the algorithms and doing drill upon drill, this is the book for you.

This is one of the few books I kept from my College classes. It had multiple lessons attached to it that was great for troubleshooting student problems.

Great condition, amazing content

This book was in great shape when I got it. It was so much cheaper to rent one than buy one.

The book is good and has many useful ideas and activities for math instruction. The rub is that Amazon doesn't give you the access code which is required to link to a website which contains blackline masters, etc. Their customer service staff is friendly but ineffective in resolving this issue and the publisher doesn't seem to know what to do about it either. Very frustrating! At $120+ for the book, I wouldn't have expected to have these hassles and, ultimately, remain dissatisfied.

I actually hate this book. I hate all books like it. I was assuming it would be the copy for the children, not the teachers. Why is it that verbal descriptions of “how to”, are always so painful, when just solving the problem, and saying, “Now replicate.” ☹️☹️☹️☹️☹️

A very good instructional math book. Chapters are laid out clearly with great examples. It is a a good resource that I will continue to use in the future.