Beyond Answers

Beyond Answers: Exploring Mathematical Practices with Young Children, author Mike Flynn provides teachers with a clear and deep sense of the Standards for Mathematical Practice and shares ideas on how to best implement them in K-2 classrooms.

Each chapter is dedicated to one of the eight common core standards. Using examples from his own teaching and vignettes from many other K-2 teachers, Flynn does the following:

• Invites you to break the cycle of teaching math procedurally.
• Demonstrates what it means for children to understand, not just do, math.
• Explores what it looks like when young children embrace the important behaviours espoused by the practices.
• The book's extensive collection of stories from K-2 classrooms provides readers with glimpses of classroom dialogue, teacher reflections, and examples of student work.
• Focus questions at the beginning of each vignette help you analyse the examples and encourage further reflection.

Beyond Answers is a wonderful resource that can be used by individual teachers, study groups, professional development staff, and in math methods courses.