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Explore new strategies for effective math instruction in your high school classroom!

Practical and versatile, Lessons and Investigations to Build Confidence: Elevating High School Mathematics is designed to integrate with any core instructional curriculum. It provides you with innovative resources to enhance student learning, create positive classrooms, and foster mathematical understanding.

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This book will help you discover new ways to:

  • Implement instructional strategies that promote thinking, reasoning, and sense making.
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  • Create positive classroom environments that support learning.
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  • Make mathematics accessible to all students.
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  • Make instructional decisions based on critical content and how students learn mathematics.
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  • Use assessment to inform mathematics instruction.
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  • Provide feedback to move student learning forward.
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Explore new classroom strategies, generate conversation around key topics, and implement innovative classroom-ready lessons and activities.

PART 1

Includes more than 360 lessons, investigations, questions, and problems to promote problem solving, reasoning, and sense making. It is organized using the five content domains for high school mathematics: Algebra, Functions, Number and Quantity, Geometry, and Probability and Statistics.

PART 2

Includes 18 research-based teaching practices intended to support you in implementing new instructional strategies and to increase your understanding of current issues related to teaching high school mathematics.

Table of Contents Preface

About the Authors

Author 1

Amy Herman

Amy Herman is a seasoned educator with over 20 years of experience in high school mathematics. She has dedicated her career to finding new and innovative ways to make math more accessible and enjoyable for students.

Author 2

Connie Horgan

Connie Horgan has been a leader in educational reform for over 15 years, working closely with schools to integrate new teaching methods and strategies in high school mathematics classrooms.