Raising students’ math achievement doesn’t mean ripping up your planning book and starting over. In Accessible Mathematics Steven Leinwand shows how small shifts in the good teaching you already do can make a big difference in student learning. Thoroughly practical and ever-aware of the limits of teachers’ time, Steve gives you everything you need to put his commonsense ideas to use immediately.
In the following video, Steve explains why math cannot simply stop when we get an answer. We end up disregarding the students who got a different answer, or who got the same answer using a different method, or our teaching quality entirely. He states that acknowledging the different ways that students can get the same answer to a problem is "the essence of building depth of mathematical understanding."
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