Mathematize It! [Grades K-2]: Going Beyond Key Words to Make Sense of Word Problems, Grades K-2Paperback, 20 May 2020

Help students reveal the math behind the words

Solving problems is about more than computation. Students must understand the mathematics of a situation to know what computation will lead to an appropriate solution.

Mathematize It! shares a reasoning approach that helps students dig into the problem to uncover the underlying mathematics, deeply consider the problem's context, and employ strong operation sense to solve it.

This user-friendly resource for Grades K-2

- Offers a systematic mathematizing process for solving word problems

- Provides specific examples of questions and explorations for addition and subtraction of whole numbers as well as early thinking for multiplication and division

- Demonstrates the use of concrete manipulatives to model problems with dozens of short videos