This book distills an array of tools, tips, templates, and best-practice strategies for teaching mathematics along with hands-on student activities in one easy-to-use resource. Geared to helping students develop conceptual understanding as well as practical skills in math, the book devotes major attention to the use of standards, performance criteria, and assessment for guiding both instruction and lesson planning and includes an extensive section on designing math problems. Focusing on such areas as patterns, measurement, computation using money, and fractions, the book shows teachers how to design effective, standards-based lessons, from setting the learning goals and creating the math problems, to crafting hands-on activities. The book also includes detailed advice on the use of questions for guiding students through thinking and reasoning processes. Hands-on lessons, broken down by topic, time commitment by the teacher, and grade level, comprise over half the book.