Designed to support teachers as they build mathematical understanding, strengthen students’ abilities to think, help students make sense of mathematics, and assist students in attaining computational fluency. Emphasizes problem posing and problem solving, and encourages teachers to invite children to use their own higher-level thinking processes, including mental calculation and estimation.

Linda Jensen Sheffield and Douglas E. Cruikshank are the authors of Teaching and Learning Mathematics: Pre-Kindergarten through Middle School, 5th Edition, published by Wiley.