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The Math Tutor's Handbook

Strategies and Tips for Success 

Filled with research-backed guidance for tutors to ensure students develop the confidence and skills they need, The Math Tutor's Handbook: Strategies and Tips for Success is the ultimate guide for effective math tutoring.

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Product Details
  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781071964798
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Series: Corwin Mathematics Series
  • Year: 2024
  • Page Count: 160
  • Publication date: October 31, 2024
Price: $35.95
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Description

Description

Boost confidence, reduce anxiety, and spark those “aha” moments for students through effective math tutoring!

Filled with research-backed guidance for tutors to ensure students develop the confidence and skills they need, The Math Tutor's Handbook: Strategies and Tips for Success is the ultimate guide for effective math tutoring. As national data suggest that students are falling behind in mathematics performance, the role of the math tutor is more critical than ever before.

The authors bring decades of wisdom and know-how to the tutoring table. Steve Leinwand—a renowned leader in math education—and Caroline Welty—a sought-after tutor who brings current insight into today’s learners—have blended their collective experience into a comprehensive handbook that offers clear guidance for effective tutoring in grades K-12 mathematics. With their conversational style, the authors provide hands-on resources to help diagnose individuals’ mathematical strengths and needs to make sure that each tutoring session carries the necessary impact..

Through a range of activities, checklists, examples, stories, and suggestions, this handbook

  • Focuses on the importance of personalized instruction that no computer program can match
  • Describes how to develop strong, supportive relationships between tutor and student
  • Identifies common stumbling blocks around the big ideas in mathematics across grade levels and suggests how to overcome them
  • Celebrates mistakes as valuable learning opportunities to foster a deeper comprehension of mathematical concepts rather than just getting the right answer
  • Promotes skills needed for the future, such as problem-solving and critical thinking, which are beneficial not only in future math classes but also in various aspects of life and work

Let The Math Tutor's Handbook empower you to create a positive learning environment for your students and help them boost self-confidence, reduce math anxiety, and master essential skills. Whether you are a private tutor or parent, you work in a tutoring center, or you are an in-school K-12 math teacher, coach, or specialist, this is the resource you need for the math tutoring strategies and practices that are foundational to successful learning.

Author(s)

Author(s)

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Steven Leinwand

Steven Leinwand is a principal research analyst at AIR, the American Institutes for Research in Arlington, Virginia, and has more than 40 years of leadership positions in mathematics education. He currently serves as mathematics expert on a wide range of AIR projects that focus on high quality mathematics instruction, turning around underperforming schools, evaluating programs, developing assessments and providing technical assistance for school improvement. Leinwand co-authored "What the United States Can Learn from Singapore's World-Class Mathematics System (and what Singapore can learn from the United States." He has spoken and written about effectively implementing the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics, differentiated learning and “What Every School Leader Needs to Know about Making Math Work for All Students.” In addition, Leinwand has provided school and district-level support and technical assistance for the General Electric Foundation’s Ensuring Futures in Education project and the Microsoft Math Partnership.

Before joining AIR in 2002, and after teaching high school math in Middletown, Connecticut, for eight years, Leinwand spent 22 years as Mathematics Consultant with the Connecticut Department of Education where he was responsible for the development and oversight of a broad statewide program of activities in K-12 mathematics education. Steve has also served on the NCTM Board of Directors, has been President of the National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics, and chaired the Writing Team for NCTM’s Principles to Actions.

Steve is an author of several mathematics textbooks and has written numerous articles. His books, Sensible Mathematics: A Guide for School Leaders in the Era of Common Core State Standards and Accessible Mathematics: 10 Instructional Shifts That Raise Student Achievement were published in 2012 and 2009 respectively. His most recent Invigorating High School Mathematics: Practical Guidance for Long-Overdue Transformation, co-authored with Eric Milou, was published in 2021. In addition, Leinwand was the awardee of the 2015 National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics Glenn Gilbert/Ross Taylor National Leadership Award for outstanding contributions to mathematics education and has been awarded the 2021 NCTM Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Caroline Welty

Caroline Welty is a senior at Cedar Ridge High School in Hillsborough, NC. She has tutored 4th-8th grade students in both math and English since 2020. Caroline attended the North Carolina Governor’s School in Choral Music in 2024, and she is President of her school’s A Cappella Club. She also is a member of her church’s Worship Team, the chair of her middle school’s Young Alumni Council, and the President of her school’s Public Forum Debate Team. Caroline hopes to go into educational policy and help create a better system for the next generations.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Dear Readers


Part 1: Personalizing Tutoring


Chapter 1: Building Relationships


Chapter 2: Diagnosing Strengths and Needs


Chapter 3: Reducing Math Anxiety


Part 2: Planning Your Time


Chapter 4: Designing Successful Sessions


Chapter 5: Launching Effective Sessions


Chapter 6: Excelling at Remote and Virtual Tutoring


Part 3: Implementing the Art and Science of Effective Tutoring


Chapter 7: Setting High Expectations and Building Self-Confidence


Chapter 8: Asking the Right Questions


Chapter 9: Honoring Mistakes


Chapter 10: Incorporating Alternative Approaches and Multiple Representations


Part 4: Reflecting on Tutoring Sessions


Chapter 11: Providing Feedback


Chapter 12: Reflecting to Revise Plans for the Next Session


Part 5: Math Tips and Word Problems


Chapter 13: Our Best Ideas for Teaching the Biggest Ideas of Mathematics


Chapter 14: Strategies for Tackling Word Problems


Conclusion


Appendix 1: Parents as tutoring partners for their children


Appendix 2: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Eight Mathematics Teaching Practices


Appendix 3: Great websites for lesson launch activities, lesson tasks and engaging activities


Appendix 4: Questions to launch a tutoring session


Appendix 5: Tutoring session planning template


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