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We understand that your real life in a school and in your classroom puts innumerable demands on your time and energy as you work to address ambitious mathematics standards. Who has time to use manipulatives, draw pictures, and spend time writing about mathematics? Your students do! This is what meeting the new ambitious standards actually requires. It may feel like pressure to speed up and do more, but paradoxically, the way to build the knowledge and concepts that are currently described in the standards is by slowing down. Evidence gathered over the past 30 years indicates that an integrated and connected understanding of a wide variety of representations of mathematical ideas is one of the best tools in a student’s toolbox (or sandbox!) for a deep and lasting understanding of mathematics (Leinwand et al., 2014). We hope that this book will be a valuable tool as you make or renew your commitment to teaching for greater understanding.