Building students’ confidence and conceptual understanding early sets a solid foundation for reasoning and exploration. Nurturing Math Curiosity With Learners in Grades K–2 offers educational tools and strategies teachers can use to integrate mathematical argumentation in early elementary classrooms, allowing space for students’ natural wonder and curiosity to shine while, at the same time, providing opportunities for students to see mathematics content in a new light.

This book will help K–2 teachers:

• Discover ways to explore early mathematical concepts
• Integrate classroom community building, teacher tools, and instructional strategies to nurture an environment of playful exploration
• Read real examples from teachers who have implemented argumentation in their classrooms
• Follow the layers of argumentation through an in-depth concrete example
• Reflect as mathematics learners with features that activate prior knowledge

Contents:

Introduction

Part 1: Nurturing Our Classroom Community and Growing Our Teacher Toolbox

Chapter 1: Creating a Vision

Chapter 2: Nurturing a Classroom Community

Chapter 3: Growing Our Teacher Toolbox

Chapter 4: Connecting the Classroom Environment and Teacher Toolbox Through Routines

Part 2: Growing the Layers of Argumentation

Chapter 5: Exploring the First Layer—Notice, Wonder, and Beyond

Chapter 6: Exploring the Second Layer—Conjecturing

Chapter 7: Exploring the Third Layer—Justifying

Chapter 8: Exploring the Fourth Layer—Extending

Part 3: Growing More Mathematical Ideas

Chapter 9: Finding Opportunities for Argumentation

Chapter 10: Using Children’s Literature to Engage in Argumentation

Epilogue

Appendix A: Blank Template

Appendix B: Choral Counting

Appendix C: Number of the Day

Appendix D: Number of the Day With Annotations

Appendix E: True or False?

Appendix F: Mathematical Ideas Across Chapters

References and Resources

Index