Marilyn Burns

Good Questions for Math Teaching – Grades K-6

Open-ended questions promote students’ mathematical thinking, understanding, and proficiency. This useful book helps teachers define “good” questions, offers tips on how to create... More.

About Teaching Mathematics

Over 240 classroom-tested activities! Helps teachers build students’ understanding and skills, understand the math they must teach, and understand how children best learn math. Topics include... More.

The Math Coach Field Guide: Charting Your Course

The essential resource for math coaches and specialists assigned the task of helping schools improve mathematics instruction. The role of a math coach is demanding and often undefined. As a result,... More.

Minilessons for Math Practice – Grades 3-5

An innovative approach to reinforcing students’ math skills. The 27 quick, engaging activities in this book are easy to implement, require little or no preparation, and take only 5 to 15 minu... More.

Math Matters: Understanding the Math You Teach

The second edition of this nationwide resource has been updated to include discussions important to the middle school math curriculum including sections on integers, exponents, similarity, and more... More.

Minilessons for Math Practice – Grades K-2

An innovative approach to reinforcing students’ math skills. The 27 quick, engaging activities in this book are easy to implement, require little or no preparation, and take only 5 to 15 minu... More.

So You Have to Teach Math?

Tackles important questions while addressing challenges faced by teachers for the middle grades. This book gives teachers direction, support, and encouragement for promoting the mathematical learni... More.

Teaching Arithmetic: Lessons for Extending Place Value, Grade 3

Through investigations, games, and several lessons based on children’s books, students explore the Base 10 system through the ten thousands, moving from using concrete manipulatives to workin... More.

Good Questions for Math Teaching – Grades 5-8

Open-ended questions promote students’ mathematical thinking, understanding, and proficiency. This useful book helps teachers define “good” questions, offers tips on how to create... More.

Teaching Number Sense – Grade 2

Focuses on the critical role that number sense plays in students’ developing mathematical understanding. The goal is for students to see numbers as tools, not barriers; to be able to reason t... More.