For Mathematics Methods in Secondary School courses. Effective teachers need to know not only what to teach but also how to teach. To that end, this practical text is geared to deepening prospective teachers' personal knowledge base while enhancing their ability to design and deliver mathematics instruction that is in line with current standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). Unique to this text are activities, lesson plans, investigations, and assessment tools that are set up to provide teacher instructions and student directives that can be duplicated for actual classroom use.