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Mathematics Activities for Elementary School Teachers -  DOLAN, Jim Williamson, Mari Muri

Mathematics Activities for Elementary School Teachers

A Problem Solving Approach
Buch | Softcover
2006 | 6th edition
Pearson (Verlag)
9780321408983 (ISBN)
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Provides hands-on manipulative-based activities keyed to the text that involve future elementary school teachers discovering concepts, solving problems, and exploring mathematical ideas. These actitives can be adapted for use with elementary students at a later time.
Pr>activities keyed to the text that involve future elementary school teachers discovering concepts, solving problems, and exploring mathematical ideas. These actitives can be adapted for use with elementary students at a later time.

 

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Each chapter begins with an introduction to the topic, including a quotation from the NCTM Standards.
Every activity starts with information on the purpose, materials, and grouping required to complete the activity. In addition, many include tips on getting started, show an example, or provide an extension to make the activity more complex. 
Each chapter concludes with a summary that explains the concepts behind each activity.
At the end of the manual, there are a number of paper manipulatives that can be cut out and used with the activities. There are also numerous activity masters, making this book useful for teachers.

 

 

1

An Introduction to Problem Solving

 

Activity 1 When You Don't Know What to Do

 

Activity 2 Ten People in a Canoe

 

Activity 3 An Ancient Game

 

Activity 4 Magic Number Tricks

 

Activity 5 Missing Persons Report

 

Activity 6 Who Dunit?

 

Activity 7 What's the Number?

 

Activity 8 Eliminate the Impossible

 

Activity 9 Candies, Couples and a Quiz

 

Activity 10 Pictoral Patterns

 

Activity 11 Number Patterns

 

Activity 12 What's the Rule?

 

Activity 13 Polygons and Diagonals

 

Activity 14 Paper Powers

 

Activity 15 What's the Last Card?

 

Chapter Summary

 

 

 

 

2

Sets, Whole Numbers, and Functions

 

Activity 1 Attribute Elimination

 

Activity 2 Sort and Classify

 

Activity 3 What's in the Loop?

 

Activity 4 Loop de Loops

 

Activity 5 What's in the Loops?

 

Activity 6 Odd and Even Patterns

 

Activity 7 Multiplication Arrays

 

Activity 8 Finding the Missing Factor

 

Activity 9 How Many Cookies?

 

Activity 10 The Function Machine

 

Activity 11 What's My Function?

 

Chapter Summary

 

 

 

 

3

Numeration Systems and Whole Number Computation

 

Activity 1 A Visit to Fouria

 

Activity 2 Regrouping Numbers

 

Activity 3 Find the Missing Numbers

 

Activity 4 It All Adds Up

 

Activity 5 What's the Difference?

 

Activity 6 Multi-digit Multiplication

 

Activity 7 Multi-digit Division

 

Activity 8 Division Array

 

Activity 9 Target Number

 

Activity 10 Least and Greatest

 

Chapter Summary

 

 

 

 

4

Integers and Number Theory

 

Activity 1 Charged Particles

 

Activity 2 Coin Counters

 

Activity 3 Addition Patterns

 

Activity 4 Subtracting Integers

 

Activity 5 Subtraction Patterns

 

Activity 6 A Clown on a Tightrope

 

Activity 7 Multiplication and Division Patterns

 

Activity 8 A Square Experiment

 

Activity 9 A Sieve of Another Sort

 

Activity 10 The Factor Game

 

Activity 11 How Many Factors?

 

Activity 12 Interesting Numbers

 

Activity 13 Tiling with Squares

 

Activity 14 Pool Factors

 

Chapter Summary

 

 

 

 

5

Rational Numbers as Fractions

 

Activity 1 What Is a Fraction?

 

Activity 2 Equivalent Fractions

 

Activity 3 How Big Is It?

 

Activity 4 Fraction War

 

Activity 5 What Comes First?

 

Activity 6 Square Fractions

 

Activity 7 Adding and Subtracting Fractions

 

Activity 8 Multiplying Fractions

 

Activity 9 Dividing Fractions

 

Activity 10 The King's Problem

 

Activity 11 People Proportions

 

Activity 12 A Call to the Border

 

Chapter Summary

 

 

 

 

6

Decimals, Percents, and Real Numbers

 

Activity 1 What's My Name?

 

Activity 2 Who's First?

 

Activity 3 Deci-Order

 

Activity 4 Race for the Flat

 

Activity 5 Empty the Board

 

Activity 6 Decimal Arrays

 

Activity 7 Decimal Multiplication

 

Activity 8 Dice and Decimals

 

Activity 9 Target Number Revisited

 

Activity 10 What is Percent?

 

Activity 11 What Does It Mean?

 

Activity 12 Flex-it

 

Chapter Summary

 

 

 

 

7

Probability

 

Activity 1 What Are the Chances?

 

Activity 2 The Spinner Game

 

Activity 3 Numbers That Predict

 

Activity 4 Theoretical Probability

 

Activity 5 It's in the Bag

 

Activity 6 Paper-Scissors-Rock

 

Activity 7 What's the Distribution?

 

Activity 8 Pascal's Probabilities

 

Activity 9 Simulate It

 

Activity 10 The Mystery Cube

 

Activity 11 How Many Arrangements?

 

Chapter Summary

 

 

 

 

8

Statistics: An Introduction

 

Activity 1 Graphing m&m's

 

Activity 2 What's in the Bag

 

Activity 3 Gaps and Clusters

 

Activity 4 Grouped Data

 

Activity 5 What's the Average?

 

Activity 6 Finger-Snapping Time

 

Activity 7 The Weather Report

 

Activity 8 Are Women Catching Up?

 

Activity 9 To Change or Not to Change?

 

Activity 10 Populations and Samples

 

Chapter Summary

 

 

 

 

9

Introductory Geometry

 

Activity 1 What's the Angle?

 

Activity 2 Inside or Outside?

 

Activity 3 Triangle Properties- Angles

 

Activity 4 Angles on Pattern Blocks

 

Activity 5 Sum of Interior/Exterior Angles

 

Activity 6 Stars and Angles

 

Activity 7 Name that Polygon

 

Activity 8 Spatial Visualization

 

Activity 9 A View from the Top

 

Activity 10 Map Coloring

 

Chapter Summary

 

 

 

 

10

Constructions, Congruence, and Similarity

 

Activity 1 Triangle Properties- Sides

 

Activity 2 To Be or Not to Be Congruent?

 

Activity 3 Paper Folding Construction

 

Activity 4 Pattern Block Similarity

 

Activity 5 Similar Triangles

 

Activity 6 Outdoor Geometry

 

Activity 7 Side Splitter Theorem

 

Activity 8 Mysterious Midpoints

 

Chapter Summary

 

 

 

 

 

 

11

Concepts of Measurement

 

Activity 1 Units of Measure

 

Activity 2 Regular Polygons in a Row

 

Activity 3 What's My Area?

 

Activity 4 Areas of Polygons

 

Activity 5 Pick's Theorem

 

Activity 6 From Rectangles to Parallelograms

 

Activity 7 From Parallelograms to Triangles

 

Activity 8 From Parallelograms to Trapezoids

 

Activity 9 Graphing Rectangles

 

Activity 10 Pythagorean Puzzles

 

Activity 11 Right or Not?

 

Activity 12 Now You See It, Now You Don't

 

Activity 13 Surface Area

 

Activity 14 Volume of a Rectangular Solid

 

Activity 15 Pyramids and Cones

 

Activity 16 Compare Volume to Surface Area

 

Chapter Summary

 

 

 

 

12

Motion Geometry and Tessellations

 

Activity 1 Slides, Flips, and Turns

 

Activity 2 How Did You Do It?

 

Activity 3 Double Flips

 

Activity 4 Reflections

 

Activity 5 Translations

 

Activity 6 Transforgeo

 

Activity 7 Rotations

 

Activity 8 Glide Reflections

 

Activity 9 Size Transformations

 

Activity 10 Coordinate Transformations

 

Activity 11 Cut It Out

 

Activity 12 Draw It

 

Activity 13 Tessellations

 

Chapter Summary

 

 

Appendices

Erscheint lt. Verlag 7.11.2006
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