Solving for Why: Understanding Assessing and Teaching Students Who Struggle with Math Grades K-8

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"Solving for Why offers educators the tools and guidance essential for successfully solving for why students struggle with mathematics. The step-by-step RTI (Response to Intervention) like approaches focused on assessment and communication with students help teachers gain insight into student understanding in a remarkably different way than recipe-type approaches that assume the same solution applies to learners with similar struggles. With Solving for Why youll learn how to: identify a struggling math learner; develop theories for why a learner may be struggling; facilitate a Concrete Representational Abstract (CRA) Assessment; implement an insightful Collaborative Study; conduct powerful student interviews; support learners who struggle with memory challenges attention deficit disorder and affective difficulties (math anxiety); differentiate instruction through a main lesson menu lesson plan; and more. Each chapter includes reproducible templates for ease in carrying out the assessments. A final section offers resources for supporting students who struggle with additive reasoning multiplicative reasoning fractions and proportional reasoning. The reproducibles are also available in a downloadable printable format at www.mathsolutions.com/solvingforwhyreproducibles. "