Minds for Mathematics

 

“Wendy Hoffer has written one of the best books I have ever read on how teachers can redesign their math classes into a math workshop.”
—Arthur Hyde, coauthor of Best Practice

Read a sample chapter from Wendy Ward Hoffer’s book, Minds on Mathematics. In this landmark resource, Wendy talks about the importance of building math classrooms that help students “get it” and details the steps and strategies to help you implement the workshop model in your math classroom. This sample from the introduction and chapter 1 includes

  • a look at why we often don’t “get” math
  • the key aspects of the math workshop model
  • tools to help you start thinking about how to plan a math workshop.