Hoffer, a staff developer who works with teachers, schools, and districts locally and nationally, explains how teachers can serve as coaches, engage students as a community of learners, and help everyone learn math together through "minds-on math workshops," which require students to draw on their intellectual resources as critical thinkers and problem solvers, stretch and think in new ways, communicate ideas to others, and attain a deeper understanding of math. She contends that all learners have the ability to succeed in math with the right support, and describes how teachers can organize their classroom instruction, the intellectual tools math learners need, the tasks that promote understanding, how to build communities of learners, how to use classroom discourse to promote thinking, and each part of the workshop: the opening, minilessons, work time, conferring, and sharing and reflection. There is no index. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)