Learn more about the strand specific resources for First Steps in Mathematics. First Steps in Mathematics resource books are available to purchase from our online store.

All resources are organized by:

• Key Understandings that provide teachers with a deeper knowledge of the mathematical big ideas and concepts that students work through as they develop understandings and confront misconceptions
• Sample Learning Activities that uncover mathematical misconceptions and help develop ownership of the Key Understandings
• Cases Studies that illustrate some of the ways in which students have responded to Sampler Learning Activities
• A Diagnostic Map that highlights the critical misconceptions and partial learnings students typically carry with them as they move into a new phase.

Virtual Samples

• Number Sense: Whole and Decimal Numbers, and Fractions
  • Table of Content
  • Chapter 2: Whole and Decimal Numbers Overview
  • Key Understanding 1
  • Sample Learning Activities
  • Case Studies 1 & 2
  • Diagnostic Map: Number
  • Simplified Map

• Measurement: Understanding Units and Direct Measurement
  • Table of Content
  • Chapter 2: Understand Units Overview
  • Key Understanding 3
  • Sample Learning Activities
  • Case Studies 1 & 2
  • Diagnostic Map: Measurement
  • Simplified Map
    
    
• Data Management and Probability
  • Table of Content
  • Chapter 2: Understand Probability Overview
  • Key Understanding 2
  • Sample Learning Activities
  • Case Study 1
  • Diagnostic Map: Probability
    
    

• Geometry and Space: Represent Location, Shape, and Transformation
  • Table of Content
  • Chapter 2: Represent Location Overview
  • Key Understanding 1
  • Sample Learning Activities
  • Case Studies 1
  • Diagnostic Map: Geometry and Space

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