Curriculum Focal Points for Prekindergarten through Grade 8 Mathematics: A Quest for Coherence provides a rationale for focal points for each grade level, prekindergarten - 8.

How can you build on young children's interactions with the world to develop their geometric thinking? What can you say to a student who claims that a diamond isn't a square because it "stands on a point"? How can knowing what does not change when shapes are transformed help you extend your students' thinking about the area of geometric figures? How much do you know ...and how much do you need to know? Helping your students develop a robust understanding of geometry and measurement requires that you understand this mathematics deeply. But what does that mean? This book focuses on essential...