This leading K-8 math methods text has the most coverage of the NCTM Standards, the strongest coverage of middle school mathematics, and the highest student approval of any text currently available.

This special California edition of the seventh edition of Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally includes a correlation guide to California’s state standards. In this section preceding Chapter 1, the California Standards for the Teaching Profession are correlated to primary headings of chapters one through seven of the textbook. The Part II content area chapters of the book contain numerous activities. These activities in chapters 8 through 23 have been correlated to the Mathematics Content Standards for California Public Schools. Novice teachers will find this guide helpful when planning for standards-based mathematics instruction to support student learning.

The California Edition of Elementary and Middle School Mathematics:  Teaching Developmentally provides an unparalleled depth of ideas and discussion to help students develop a real understanding of the mathematics they will teach. This text reflects the NCTM Principles and Standards and the benefits of constructivist–or student-centered–mathematics instruction. It is structured for maximum flexibility, offering 23 brief, compartmentalized chapters that may be mixed and matched to fit any course or teaching approach.  Practical and concise, it offers readers a strong theoretical perspective of how children learn mathematics and then shows them the best way to teach it. 

The text is organized into two sections.  The first section introduces trends in mathematics education and the process of doing mathematics.  It then develops the core ideas of learning, teaching, planning, and assessment.  Additional perspectives on mathematics for special children and the role of technology are also discussed.  Chapters 3 and 4 are the most critical as they describe the constructivist view of learning and how it is applied as well as what it means to teach through problem solving. 

Section II serves as the application of the core ideas in Section I.  Chapters on every major area of content in the K-8 mathematics curriculum are included.  Numerous problem-based activities to engage students are interwoven with a discussion of the mathematical content and how children develop their understanding of that content.   The appendices at the end of the book provide additional information on the Principles and Standards of the NCTM, the Professional Standards, and Guides for Blackline Masters and suggestions for use of construction materials. 

Both a comprehensive textbook and a reference as students begin their teaching careers; Van de Walle’s book will help teachers and students alike to find the excitement that happens when mathematics makes sense.

Correlation guide to California’s state standards. In this section preceding Chapter 1, the California Standards for the Teaching Profession are correlated to primary headings of chapters one through seven of the textbook. The Part II content area chapters of the book contain numerous activities. These activities in chapters 8 through 23 have been correlated to the Mathematics Content Standards for California Public Schools. Novice teachers will find this guide helpful when planning for standards-based mathematics instruction to support student learning.

enVisionMATH California Version Teacher Edition Sampler. Explore the mathematics curriculum used in elementary classrooms throughout the country and nearly half the school districts in California. This print sampler features the Grade 4 Topic 11 Fraction and Decimal Concepts topic of the Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley enVisionMath K-6 program. This curriculum is designed to deepen conceptual understanding by making meaningful connections for students and delivering strong, sequential visual/verbal connections through the Visual Learning Bridge in every lesson.

--Practice test and Review Questions and Study Plan help readers test their understanding of chapter content.

 --Assignments and Applications

--Videos of classroom-based mathematics instruction plus 22 fully integrated videos of the late John Van de Walle, one of the foremost experts on how children learn mathematics, giving workshops for practicing teachers. In the video, he discusses mathematical concepts and conduct hands-on activities with teachers. Each video is accompanied by questions that encourage readers to apply what they have learned.  

--Simulation Exercises, Online Resources, School Curricula (see below), Lesson Resources, downloadable Black Line Masters

--Building Teaching Skills provide practice in developing the skills and characteristics that are essential to quality teaching through seven expanded lessons and video of classroom-based mathematics instruction.

--Children's Literature Connections, Recommended Readings, Online Resources, and enVisionMATH K-6 Curriculum sample chapters. 

--Package the MyEducationLab Student Access code, valued at $40,  with this text and your students will pay only $5 for this robust resource.  

To order the California Edition of Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally Seventh Edition along with the enVisionMath Sampler, MyEducationLab Student Access Code, and the Field Experience Guide please use ISBN 0136103685 when placing your book order.

• In section II, four chapters include features that describe an activity from the standards-based curriculum Investigations in Number, Data, and Space (an elementary curriculum) or Connected Mathematics Project (CMP II) (a middle school curriculum). These features include a description of an activity in the program as well as the context of the unit in which it is found while MyEducationLab provides application activities that can be easily assigned.
• Samples of the popular EnVisionMath series can be found only on the new MyEducationLab website for Elementary and Middle School Mathematics .

NEW! Field Experience Guide Connections at the end of each chapter showcases resources from the Field Experience Guide 3e  that directly connect to the content and topics within each chapter. The Field Experience Guide, a supplement to Elementary and Middle School Mathematics, has been created for mathematics observation, practicum, and student teaching experiences at the elementary and middle school levels. The guidebook contains two parts:

• Part I provides tasks for preservice teachers to do in the field
• Part II providesthree types of activities: Expanded Lessons, Mathematics Activities, and Balanced Assessment Tasks.

NEW!  Revision of Chapter 5 on assessment--Discusses increased testing pressure and accountability, adds more information on equitable assessments, creates more explicit links between objectives and assessment, and includes assessments for students with special needs.

NEW!  Updates of the Literature Connections feature to remove all out of print children’s literature and include more non-fiction, poetry, and other types of readings.

NEW!  Weaves the Focal Points throughout the chapters as well as links them with the Big Ideas feature—Focal Points have also been added to the Appendix. 

NEW!  Includes expanded coverage of working with diverse learners including differentiated instruction, working with culturally and linguistically diverse families, adapting the Response to Intervention (RTI) for children in a mathematics classroom, and more.

NEW!  Gives greater emphasis on dealing with math anxiety.

NEW! Connection of the theories of learning “why do” to the implementation of “doing” mathematics. Chapters 2 and 3 from the Sixth edition have been combined into Chapter 2 in the Seventh edition. The theories of constructivism and sociocultural theory are concisely and clearly described, followed by implications for teaching.

NEW! Emphasis on Problem Solving in section I with a focus on the work of George Polya supplements existing problem solving coverage throughout the text. An additional section in Chapter 3 also illustrates for teachers how to adapt textbooks to promote problem solving.

Updated! Technology coverage has been updated and expanded including definition of technologies including digital tools, collaborative authoring tools, podcasts, and dynamic software. This is in light of the thinking about Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), which reflects the need to infuse technology in every lesson. In Chapter 7, there are guidelines on how to select and evaluate Internet resources and an effort has been made throughout the book to focus on software you do not need to buy, but can instead access online.

Revised! Algebraic Thinking coverage is now reorganized around five critical themes of algebraic thinking: generalization from arithmetic and from patterns in all of mathematics, meaningful use of symbols, study of structure in the number system, study of patterns and functions, and the process of mathematical modeling, which integrates the first four. In addition, there is increased attention to developing meaningful contexts for algebraic thinking across grades pre-K–8, including connections to other subject areas.

1. Teaching Mathematics in the Era of the NCTM Standards
2. Exploring What it Means to Do Mathematics and Developing Understanding in Mathematics
3. Teaching Through Problem Solving
4. Planning in the Problem-Based Classroom
5. Building Assessment Into Instruction
6. Teaching Mathematics Equitably to All children
7. Technology and School Mathematics
8. Developing Early Number Concepts and Number Sense
9. Developing Meanings for the Operations
10. Helping Children Master the Basic Facts
11. Whole-Number Place-Value Development
12. Strategies for Whole-Number Computation
13. Computational Estimation with Whole Numbers
14. Algebraic Thinking: Generalizations, Patterns, and Functions
15. Developing Fraction Concepts
16. Computation with Fractions
17. Decimal and Percentage Concepts and Decimal Computation
18. Proportional Reasoning
19. Developing Measurement Concepts
20. Geometric Thinking and Geometric Concepts
21. Concepts of Data Analysis
22. Exploring Concepts of Probability
23. Developing Concepts of Exponents, Integers, and Real Numbers

Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally, Seventh Edition

John A. Van de Walle, Late of Virginia Commonwealth University

Karen S. Karp, University of Louisville

Jennifer M. Bay-Williams, University of Louisville

Written by leaders in the field of mathematics education, this best-selling book will help teachers and K-8 students make sense of math. For each strand of the mathematics curriculum, numerous problem-based activities are interwoven with a discussion of the mathematical content and how children develop their understanding of that content.

This book is uniquely designed to help your students:

• Prepare for mathematics instruction in today’s classroom:
  • NEW!  MyEducationLab website for this text presents classroom video, clips of teacher workshops presented by John Van de Walle, expanded lessons, real curriculum materials, children’s literature resources, and more. Margin notes throughout the text seamlessly integrate website material for instructors and readers.
  • NEW!  Field Experience Guide Connections at the end of each chapter showcase specific classroom-based tasks, activities, and resources available to readers in the popular Field Experience Guide.
• Develop a constructivist and problem solving approach to the learning and teaching of mathematics
• NEW! Use the 2000 NCTM Principles and Standards and Curriculum Focal Points to inform their instruction by providing the most complete coverage of the NCTM guidelines available.
• UPDATED! Effectively integrate technology to support teaching and learning with comprehensive coverage of new technologies and teaching strategies.
• Practice doing the mathematics that they will teach through numerous activities in each of the 16 content chapters
• NEW! Meet the needs of all learners through discussion of differentiating instruction, adaptation of the response to intervention (RTI) model for use with students with special needs in the mathematics classroom, and more.

Pearson Higher Education offers special pricing when you choose to package your text with other student resources. If you're interested in creating a cost-saving package for your students contact your Pearson Higher Education representative.

This package contains:
•   Van de Walle, Karp & Bay-Williams, ELEM& MID SCH MATH CALIF&ENVISIONMATH CALIF, 7/E (2010)
•   Van de Walle, Karp & Bay-Williams, Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally, 7/E (2010)
•   Pearson, Karp & Bay-Williams, enVisionMATH California Version Teacher Edition Sampler Grade 4 Topic 11 Fraction and Decimal Concepts, California Edition of Elementary and Middle School Mathematics, 7/E (2010)
•   Bay-Williams & Van de Walle, Field Experience Guide for Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally, 7/E (2010)
•   Pearson, MyEducationLab -- Valuepack Access Card (2009)