Math Running Records in Action

Description

In this new book from popular consultant and bestselling author Dr. Nicki Newton, you’ll discover how to use Math Running Records to assess students’ basic fact fluency and increase student achievement. Like a GPS, Math Running Records pinpoint exactly where students are in their understanding of basic math facts and then outline the next steps toward comprehensive fluency. This practical book introduces a research-based framework to assess students’ thinking and move them toward becoming confident, proficient, flexible mathematicians with a robust sense of numbers.

Topics Include

• Learning how often to administer Math Running Records and how to strategically introduce them into your existing curriculum;
• Analyzing, and interpreting Math Running Records for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division;
• Using the data gathered from Math Running Records to implement evidence-based, research-driven instruction.
• Evaluating students’ speed, accuracy, flexibility, and efficiency to help them attain computational fluency;

Each chapter offers a variety of charts and tools that you can use in the classroom immediately, and the strategies can easily be adapted for students at all levels of math fluency across grades K-8.

Table of Contents

1. Meet the Author
2. Foreword by Alison Mello
3. Acknowledgements
4. Introduction
5. Section I: Math Running Records Overview
   1. Chapter 1: Math Running Records: A Framework for Fluency
   2. Chapter 2: Parts of a Math Running Record
6. Section II: The Addition Running Record
   1. Chapter 3: The Addition Math Running Record
   2. Chapter 4: Analyzing & Interpreting the Addition Running Record
   3. Chapter 5: Implications for Teaching Addition: Purposeful Practice
7. Section III: The Subtraction Running Record
   1. Chapter 6: The Subtraction Math Running Record
   2. Chapter 7: Analyzing & Interpreting the Subtraction Running Record
   3. Chapter 8: Implications for Teaching Subtraction: Purposeful Practice
8. Section IV: The Multiplication Running Record
   1. Chapter 9: The Multiplication Math Running Record
   2. Chapter 10: Analyzing & Interpreting the Multiplication Running Record
   3. Chapter 11: Implications for Teaching Multiplication: Purposeful Practice
9. Section V: The Division Running Record
   1. Chapter 12: The Division Math Running Record
   2. Chapter 13: Analyzing & Interpreting the Division Running Record
   3. Chapter 14: Implications for Teaching Division: Purposeful Practice
   4. Chapter 15: FAQs

Author Description

Nicki Newton has been an educator for 27 years, working both nationally and internationally with students of all ages. She has worked on developing Math Workshop and Guided Math Institutes around the country.