Subtitle: Middle School Video Cases to Support Teaching and Learning. This book provides many ways to help your students connect with math. This book guides you through the CD and helps you analyze the lesson footage from a theoretical stands point and a practical standpoint. Includes 2 CD'S.

Opening the door to my classroom / Cathy Humphreys -- Building on student ideas: the border problem, part 1 (March 9) -- Building understanding of algebraic representation: the border problem, part 2 (March 12) -- Defending reasonableness: division of fractions (February 6) -- Introducing the notion of proof (May 15) -- Continuing our discussion of proof: convincing others -- Class participation through the eyes of students (May 23) -- Volume of prisms and cylinders: extending prior knowledge (June 5) -- Surface area: generating geometric formulas (June 6).