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Using Audrey & Bruce Wood's book Ten Little Fish, students learn to count backward from 10 by 1s, a precursor for subtraction. This lesson appears in Numbers & Stories. (Elementary)

Use this lesson from Uncovering Student Thinking About Mathematics in the Common Core, Grades K-2, to probe student understanding of addition and subtraction.

Learn hands-on strategies for teaching geometry, measurement, and data excerpted from Planting the Seeds of Algebra 3-5. (Elementary)

Learn from John SanGiovanni, author of Mine the Gap for Mathematical Understanding, Grades 3-5, the specific actions that teachers can take to close the gaps in student understanding of mathematics.

Learn from Linda Gojak and Ruth Harbin-Miles, authors of The Common Core Mathematics Companion: The Standards Decoded, Grades 3-5, the impactful models and applications that lead students to a better and deeper understanding of division. 

Join Francis "Skip" Fennell, author of The Formative 5, as he unpacks teacher and classroom-tested mathematics formative assessment techniques that have a big impact on student learning. 

These two wrap-up strategies from Bringing Math Students into the Formative Assessment Equation feature "reflect-aloud" and "X-marks-the-spot" to help students self-assess. 

This reproducible chart and student handout from Teaching Numeracy remind students of the importance of recording what they have learned, what they noticed, what makes sense, etc. (K-12)