Math Work Stations: Independent Learning You Can Count On, K-2

I have been using math workshop in my classroom for over 10 years, but this book brought new and fresh ideas. Having taught for over 15 years, I didn't feel like I needed a lot of the 'theory' that comes with other books. This book is user friendly and full of great games and ideas to use for math workshop. The colored pictures of charts and students playing games is also very helpful. I think anyone doing workshop in K-2 (and perhaps even 3) should get this book!

EXCELLENT resource for K-2 educators. I will begin my first year of teaching next year and I cannot wait to put these ideas into practice in my classroom. This book is packed full of great ideas for activities you can use at each station (plus, all the activities are aligned with the common core standards). In addition to ideas for station activities, the book includes tips for managing, organizing, maintaining, differentiating, assessing, and troubleshooting math stations. Diller includes ideas for incorporating problem solving at each station as well as lists of children's literature for each topic. This is the best and most practical math resource book I have yet to read. I love that it includes color photographs as well! Math stations are the way to go - they facilitate independent learning, cooperation, problem-solving, and concrete hands-on experiences that help promote a deep understanding of math concepts - what more could you ask for?! As a side note, Diller's book 'Literacy Work Stations' is awesome as well!

I bought Debbie Diller's Literacy Work Stations book about 4 years ago and used a lot of ideas from it. I was very excited to see her Math Work Stations book come out, since I sometimes feel the focus at school falls on literacy more than math. I was very excited to see her organize math concepts by categories and give lots of ideas for each topic, including lists of manipulatives and books for each concept. I had tried math work station tubs on my own, last year, but I really didn't know what to include in the tubs, so I abandoned the idea. With this new idea book from Debbie Diller, I feel that I can effectively implement math station tubs, again, this year. I also feel confident that I will be covering all the topics I need to cover in Kindergarten. I would highly recommend this book!

If you really want to have meaningful math stations where children can work independently at their own levels so you can work with small math groups, this is the book for you! Debbie Diller brings her literacy stations expertise to the world of math, and her ideas can be workable in any elementary classroom. There are plenty of examples of what math stations are and aren't, as well as great advice on how to clean out and organize your math materials so you can use them more effectively. Further sections of the book are divided by big math idea, and they include what kinds of math children need to understand at various primary grades, ideas to incorporate necessary knowledge into meaningful math stations, great partner games with materials lists, suggestions on how to support clear math communication, assessment ideas, literature connections, and practical technology integration information. The glossary gives concise definitions a teacher might need, and the appendix has reproducible versions of many resources mentioned throughout the book. This could be your go-to math book this school year!

Provides clear ideas and examples for setting up and running math work stations. Has an appendix that contains print-ables for games in the book. Contains a picture glossary of the most useful math manipulatives. I found this to be very helpful when preparing my classroom. Each chapter discusses the key concepts for teaching the math concept, clear guidelines for set-up, ideas for modeling the concept, children's books that support the math concept, ideas for differentiating the centers, and much more. The only draw back was the Table of Contents (there are 8 chapters) was missing; however, the Index is so thorough that has not been a problem. This book will become a permanent part of my classroom library.

Fantastic resource for teachers wanting to do math stations (or centers). My fuss is that my copy did NOT come with the DVD. Others in my college class got a DVD which was shown in class but I didn't get it :(. Would have been nice if it was stated that the disc was NOT included. If you order, pay careful attention if you want the DVD too.

Ms. Diller has written this book in specific chapters for each math topic (place value, geometry, addition and subtraction, etc.). In each chapter is a vignette and ideas to help enhance your math workstations. There is even an appendix with pictures and word problems to get you started. A great resource for those who don't really know where to begin or for those who are looking for new ideas!

Having a wide range of learners in my 1st grade Math classes I was struggling trying to reach them all and their unique needs. I have students who are having trouble with one to one counting and other students who can work problems 15 + 9 with mental math strategies. The organization and station ideas with management tools has saved my classroom. I now can meet with small groups while the rest of the class works hard without having me hover nearby. This is a great book, full of great ideas. Thank you Debbie Diller!!!

Es el libro que esperaba. Muy completo.

Brilliant book, so many ideas to adapt in the classroom some old and some fresh suggestions but all accessible and easy to implement in UK schools.

I bought this for an education course on differentiating. It was easy to read and exceeded my expectations. The tips on how to set up Math Stations were insightful and explicit. Wonderful thought was put into this book. Every time I had a question it was usually answered in the chapter I was reading or one of the subsequent ones.

It is well laid out with lots of examples to create your own math stations. It gives one the next step from math tubs for the topic you are teaching at present to math stations that continue the practice kids need. There is not a lot of preparation either, so needed with our busy teaching lives. Diller does it again!

Exactly what we expected - thank you