Hands-On Standards

Photo-Illustrated Lessons for Teaching with Math Manipulatives

Research shows that math success begins with manipulatives. With these comprehensive handbooks, any teacher—even those new to the classroom or new to manipulatives—can successfully integrate manipulatives into math lessons, helping students achieve established grade-level math standards and succeed on standardized tests.

Each spiral-bound handbook provides more than 50 complete lesson plans with full-color instructional photos, real-world math problems, blackline masters and practice exercises for standardized tests.

Features:

• Lessons are explicitly aligned with NCTM Standards and Expectations, making them easy to integrate into any curriculum
• Standardized practice exercises connect hands-on activities with paper-and-pencil assessment
• Full-color photos illustrate each lesson step-by-step
• Unique “Look Out!” sections alert teachers to the common errors students tend to make
• Features real-world math problems, a follow-up activity and idea generators for expanding each lesson
• Includes open-ended blackline masters and support materials

Organized by NCTM Strand:

• Number Sense & Operations
• Algebra
• Geometry
• Measurement
• Data Analysis & Probability