Quotes from District Math Specialists who have 6 months implementation experience with MTS

"My name is Courtney Lots. I’ve been teaching math for ten years and tutoring for over fifteen years. I have seen more than 20 different math books during this time period. The Math Teaching Series are the best math books that I’ve ever seen. The book has great detail and explains concepts in a way that is easy to understand. The book is filled with a plethora of examples. The practice problems correlate to the examples, and these examples serve as a roadmap with benchmarks that lead to mastery and retention of mathematical concepts. This enables students to complete most of their homework. There’s more than enough practice problems, which include challenging problems that require critical thinking. Parents become empowered with these books because they can finally read and understand a math book. This enables more parents to help their children with their math homework. I would highly recommend the Math Teaching Series to any school district that’s looking to improve their math scores.

If you have any question, contact me at 248-416-6193."

Sincerely,

Courtney Lots
Math Teacher
President of Highland Park Federation of Teachers
Vice President of Federation of Teachers, Michigan

Comments from a team of Middle School Math Specialists in a large Florida system which has been implementing Grade 8 since August of 2009.

“Thank you so much for supplying me with this fabulous resource!"

"The book would be a valuable resource to math teachers when planning class lessons."

"The book was used by my Instructional Coach to help with the development of after school tutoring."

"Teacher was able to use it as a quick reference to help develop mini-lessons to re mediate students during tutoring who have a wide variety of weak areas."

“Nicholas’ book explains why each step is needed, its function and results. This conceptual piece helps teachers understand why certain formulas and pedagogy were developed and used."

“It has been wonderful also for students in small group settings or tutoring."

“We have so many teachers who are not mathematics majors, yet they are responsible for educating our children to be a functional citizen of society. The children will all benefit as the teacher skills are strengthened with this methodology in place."

“Our goal is to help those struggling teachers become proficient and understand the math for the benefit of the child."

“The Math Teaching Series book was filled with explanations, examples and problems to be solved. The step by step breakdown of the explanations would be beneficial to teachers and students."

“The book covers every Florida state standard with examples that can be solved and checked by the student. This would be a great textbook as well as prep book for the FCAT because of the many exercises with challenging questions."

“I enjoyed the illustrations on solving inequalities and the exercises that followed in each section. This would be a good book to adopt in any county."

“The book Math Teaching Series has been a fabulous resource for me as a math coach and for my math teachers."

“One of my new math teachers has used the book to help create notes for her students as our current textbook lacks examples. I love the way notes and examples are given."

“The book does a great job of discussing common misconceptions. These misconceptions can lead to a huge misunderstanding throughout their math journey; however, some of these
misconceptions start by a simple mistake or wrong usage of vocabulary."

“The examples helped me and my teachers understand that we have to be precise on the vocabulary we use with our students. They are at a stage in their life where they take everything literally. If we accidentally tell them to do something that is not always the
right way, it will take a great amount of time to correct that error."

“The book provides many examples and provides step­by­step instructions designed to assist students."

“This book covers a variety of topics in Algebra and Geometry and has been useful to create lessons for both classes."

“I would recommend this book to any teacher looking to add a resource to their collection."

“Just want you to know I think the book is awesome and I really enjoy having an opportunity to use it as I assist my nurturing students."

“I love how it gives very detail explanations which allows the students to fully understand."

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