The Reading Warehouse

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In this book, classroom teacher Robin Cox and university professor David Whitin tell how they devised strategies and activities to nurture the same kind of initiative, voice, and ownership in mathematics that children display in writing their own stories and choosing their own books to read. They offer a wealth of information for teachers who want to make a similar kind of passage toward inquiry in mathematics. Here you will find: lesson plans that outline mathematical content and strategies, as well as important attitudes and dispositionsspecific connections to NCTM's "Principles and Standards for School Mathematics"detailed descriptions of ways to build a community of mathematical inquirersstrategies for developing and managing a math workshopsuggestions for encouraging children to be independent, responsible, and reflective decision makersways to use math journals to assess children's understandingsactivities that promote interdisciplinary connectionsstrategies for using conversation to challenge, clarify, justify, and extend mathematical thinkingtips on communicating with parentsreferences to manipulatives, children's literature, and real-world applicationsparallels between the work of children and the work of mathematicians, such as discovering patterns, developing hypotheses, posing and extending problems.Better understand the nature of inquiry learning. Nurture its growth in your own classroom. See how key principles of learning are consistent across the curriculum. Read Whitin and Cox.