Making Sense of Mathematics for Teaching to Inform Instructional Quality

"In Making Sense of Mathematics for Teaching: Reflecting on Instructional Quality authors Melissa D. Boston, Amber G. Candela, and Juli K. Dixon provide a compelling and illuminating process for focusing on and improving the quality of one's mathematics instruction. With an understanding of the importance of instructional quality to the teaching of mathematics, the authors have focused on building a process that places an emphasis on identifying and improving the aspects of instruction that will have the most impact on students' learning in the mathematics classroom. Recognizing that theory must be supported by concrete evidence, the authors provide numerous strategies and rubrics to assist in implementation and to provide data that will assist in future lesson planning. Furthermore, in the previous books in the Making Sense of Mathematics series, a central premise has been that the reader will learn about the mathematics they are teach