Linda Dacey




Linda Dacey, professor of mathematics and education at Lesley University, began her career teaching at the elementary level and, early in her career, received an NSF grant to develop a model program for preparing middle school teachers. She works with preservice and inservice teachers, helping them to develop both their content knowledge and their practice. Her commitment to the quality of mathematics education was noted when she was inducted into the Massachusetts Mathematics Educators Hall of Fame. She is a reviewer for NCTM's Teaching Children Mathematics, was guest editor for the recent "equity" issue of the New England Mathematics Journal, and is a prolific writer of books and resource materials for both teachers and writers. Her research focuses on problem solving, number sense, and strategies for differentiation.

Linda Dacey

 

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Well Played, K-2
Well Played, K-2
Linda Dacey, Karen Gartland, and Jayne Bamford Lynch
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Why Write in Math Class?
Why Write in Math Class?
Linda Dacey, Rebeka Eston Salemi, and Kathleen O'Connell
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$37.33 $28.00 Save $9.33
Well Played 3-5
Well Played 3-5
Linda Dacey, Karen Gartland, and Jayne Bamford Lynch
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$38.00 $28.50 Save $9.50
Well Played, 6-8
Well Played, 6-8
Linda Dacey, Karen Gartland, and Jayne Bamford Lynch
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Linda Dacey, Karen Gartland, and Jayne Bamford Lynch:::100118

Well Played, K-2

9781625310347

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Students love math games and puzzles, but how much are they really learning from the experience? Too often, math games are thought of as just a fun activity or enrichment opportunity. Well Played: Building Mathematical Thinking Through Number Games and Puzzles, Grades K-2 shows you how to make games and puzzles an integral learning component that provides teachers with unique access to student thinking.
 
The twenty-five games and puzzles in Well Played, which have all been field-tested in diverse classrooms, contain:

•         Explanations of the mathematical importance of each game or puzzle and how it supports student learning
•         Variations for each game or puzzle to address a range of learning levels and styles
•         Classroom vignettes that model how best to introduce the featured game or puzzle
 
The book also includes a separate chapter with suggestions for how to effectively manage games and puzzles in diverse classrooms; game boards, game cards, and puzzles; assessment ideas; and suggestions for online games, puzzles, and apps.
 
Well Played will help you tap the power of games and puzzles to engage students in sustained and productive mathematical thinking.  
Well Played, K-2
Linda Dacey, Rebeka Eston Salemi, and Kathleen O'Connell:::100118

Why Write in Math Class?

9781625311603

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To help students communicate their mathematical thinking, many teachers have created classrooms where math talk has become a successful and joyful instructional practice. Building on that success, the ideas in Why Write in Math Class? help students construct, explore, represent, refine, connect, and reflect on mathematical ideas. Writing also provides teachers with a window into each student’s thinking and informs instructional decisions.

Focusing on five types of writing in math (exploratory, explanatory, argumentative, creative, and reflective), Why Write in Math Class? offers a variety of ways to integrate writing into the math class. The ideas in this book will help you make connections to what you already know about the teaching of writing within literacy instruction and build on what you’ve learned about the development of classroom communities that support math talk.

The authors offer practical advice about how to support writing in math, as well as many specific examples of writing prompts and tasks that require high-cognitive demand. Extensive stories and samples of student work from K-5 classrooms give a vision of how writing in math class can successfully unfold.
Why Write in Math Class?
Linda Dacey, Karen Gartland, and Jayne Bamford Lynch:::100118

Well Played 3-5

9781625310323

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Students love math games and puzzles, but how much are they really learning from the experience? Too often, math games are thought of as just a fun activity or enrichment opportunity. Well Played: Building Mathematical Thinking Through Number Games and Puzzles, Grades 3–5 shows you how to make games and puzzles an integral learning component that provides teachers with unique access to student thinking.
 
The twenty-five games and puzzles in Well Played, which have all been field-tested in diverse classrooms, contain:
•         Explanations of the mathematical importance of each game or puzzle and how it supports student learning
•         Variations for each game or puzzle to address a range of learning levels and styles
•         Classroom vignettes that model how best to introduce the featured game or puzzle
 
The book also includes a separate chapter with suggestions for how to effectively manage games and puzzles in diverse classrooms; game boards, game cards, and puzzles; assessment ideas; and suggestions for online games, puzzles, and apps.
 
Well Played will help you tap the power of games and puzzles to engage students in sustained and productive mathematical thinking.  
Well Played 3-5
Linda Dacey, Karen Gartland, and Jayne Bamford Lynch:::100118

Well Played, 6-8

9781625310330

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Students love math games and puzzles, but how much are they really learning from the experience? Too often, math games are thought of as just a fun activity or enrichment opportunity. Well Played: Building Mathematical Thinking Through Number and Algebraic Games and Puzzles, Grades 6-8 shows you how to make games and puzzles an integral learning component that provides teachers with unique access to student thinking.
 
This third book in the series helps you engage students in grades 6–8 in discussions of mathematical ideas and deepen their conceptual understanding.  It also helps you develop students’ fluency with number systems; ratio and proportional relationships; expressions and equations, statistics and probability; and patterns, graphs, and functions.
 
The twenty-five games and puzzles in Well Played, which have all been field-tested in diverse classrooms, contain:
  • Explanations of the mathematical importance of each game or puzzle and how it supports student learning
  • Variations for each game or puzzle to address a range of learning levels and styles
  • Classroom vignettes that model how best to introduce the featured game or puzzle
 
The book also includes a separate chapter with suggestions for how to effectively manage games and puzzles in diverse classrooms; game boards, game cards, and puzzles; assessment ideas; and suggestions for online games, puzzles, and apps.
 
Well Played will help you tap the power of games and puzzles to engage students in sustained and productive mathematical thinking. 
 
Well Played, 6-8