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From the Back Cover This book continues the tradition of an activity-based approach to teaching with an emphasis on using manipulatives to build conceptual understanding.This new edition combines research from the newest NAEP data, findings and lessons from the TIMSS, and the new NCTM Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. This edition provides examples of portfolio assessments of performance-based tasks that attend to the new national accreditation standards of NCATE. Activities include discussion of how to adapt for special needs learners. The emphasis on cultural diversity permeates the book unlike no other mathematics methods text on the market. This book is packaged with a free CD-ROM to enhance learning. The CD-ROM is referred to throughout the text to incorporate actual classroom footage and a variety of activities, extended bibliographies, computer software supporting materials, full-page blackline masters of manipulative models, and additional children's literature and teacher resource materials. For those interested in improving mathematics teaching on the elementary and middle school levels.