Intended to accompany the Student Book, the Home Instructor's Guide provides Student Book answers, select worked solutions, teaching ideas, and strategies to facilitate exploration, discussion, and student-centered learning. The front matter provides background on the program structure, lesson and concept development, and an overview of the Readiness-Engagement-Mastery model of learning.
Note: Soft cover. Includes digital component and answers to Student Book.
Concepts covered include: Group objects and numbers up to 1,000 into hundreds, tens, and ones. Use base-ten blocks to create equivalent representations of numbers. Count within 1,000. Count by multiples of ones, tens, and hundreds. Use <, >, and = to compare two 2-digit numbers and write equations for inequalities. Write multi-digit numbers in expanded form. Use place-value models to represent numbers to 1,000. Write numbers to 1,000 in standard, expanded, and word forms. Partition circles and rectangles into unit fractions halves, thirds, and fourths. Identify $1, $5, $10, $20, and $100 bills. Count and make combinations of coins and bills. Solve word problems involving money. Use the dollar sign and decimal point. Model addition and subtraction within 1,000 using place-value strategies. Solve multi-digit addition and subtraction problems by using a bar model. Represent multiplication as repeated addition. Use x and = symbols to represent multiplication equations. Solve multiplication word problems. Solve addition and subtraction word problems involving money. Use mental math strategies to add and subtract. Use the Associative Property, Identity Property, and Commutative Property as addition strategies. Identify odd and even numbers. Recognize how bar models show relationships between numbers and unknowns in number sentences. Use equations to represent real-world problems. Identify lines, curves, triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes. Identify, describe, sort, and classify three-dimensional shapes. Demonstrate linear measure as an iteration of units. Estimate and measure length. Solve addition and subtraction word problems involving length. Tell and write time using A.M. and P.M. Tell time to five minutes. Develop foundations for understanding area. Collect and organize data in different ways. Build skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and measurement through problem solving. Recognize the relationship between bar models, number sentences, and number patterns. Solve real-world problems involving addition, subtraction, measurement, and data analysis. Consult or download the complete Scope and Sequence for a full report of covered topics and concepts.
The Home instructor's guides are great in helping to map out and plan lessons for the school year. I like that it also gives tips on how to teach each lesson along with answers for the student book problems.