Activities for Elementary Mathematics Teachers

by Dolan, Dan; Williamson, Jim; Muri, Mari

• ISBN13: 9780321043283
• ISBN10: 0321043286
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
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Summary

By Dolan, Williamson, and Muri. Provides hands-on, manipulative-based activities that involve future elementary and middle school teachers in discovering mathematical concepts, solving problems, and exploring mathematical concepts in interesting, stimulating, real-world settings. The activities are designed to be adapted for later use with elementary and middle school students. * Purpose outlines the major mathematical concepts developed in the activity. * Materials provides a list of supplies needed for the activity. * Grouping describes the classroom setting for the activity. * Getting Started provides an introduction to the activity and explains the preparation needed. * Reflections help students bring closure to ideas. * Extensions present suggestions and ideas for extending the activity to other mathematical topics or for making connections. * Manipulatives in color and on heavy paper stock are included. * Activity Masters contain models, activity recording sheets, graph paper, nets for polyhedrons, activity cards, etc.

Table of Contents

Thinking Critically	1	(24)
Magic Number Tricks	2	(2)
When You Don't Know What To Do	4	(2)
Pictorial Patterns	6	(1)
Number Patterns	7	(2)
What's the Rule?	9	(1)
Polygons and Diagonals	10	(2)
Ten People in a Canoe	12	(3)
An Ancient Game	15	(1)
Missing Person Reports	16	(1)
Who Dunit?	17	(1)
What's the Number?	18	(1)
Eliminate the Impossible	19	(2)
Candies, Couples, and a Quiz	21	(1)
What's the Last Card?	22	(3)
Sets, Whole Numbers, and Functions	25	(19)
Attribute Elimination	26	(1)
Sort and Classify	27	(1)
Attribute Matrix	28	(2)
Difference Puzzles	30	(1)
What's in the Loop?	31	(1)
Loop de Loops	31	(1)
What's in the Loops?	32	(1)
Odd and Even Patterns	33	(2)
Multiplication Arrays	35	(1)
Find the Missing Factor	36	(2)
How Many Cookies?	38	(1)
Paper Powers	39	(1)
The King's Problem	40	(1)
What's My Function?	41	(3)
Numeration and Computation	44	(20)
Regrouping Numbers	45	(2)
Find the Missing Numbers	47	(1)
A Visit to Fouria	48	(3)
It All Adds Up	51	(1)
What's the Difference?	52	(2)
Multi-digit Multiplication	54	(1)
Multi-digit Division	55	(2)
Division Array	57	(2)
Target Number	59	(2)
Least and Greatest	61	(3)
Number Theory	64	(18)
A Square Experiment	65	(3)
A Sieve of Another Sort	68	(3)
The Factor Game	71	(4)
How Many Factors?	75	(1)
Interesting Numbers	76	(2)
Tiling With Squares	78	(2)
Pool Factors	80	(2)
Integers	82	(13)
Charged Particles	83	(2)
Coin Counters	85	(2)
Addition Patterns	87	(1)
Subtraction Integers	88	(2)
Subtraction Patterns	90	(1)
Multiplication and Division Patterns	91	(1)
A Clown on a Tightrope	92	(3)
Fractions and Rational Numbers	95	(21)
What is a Fraction?	96	(2)
Equivalent Fractions	98	(2)
How Big Is It?	100	(1)
Fraction War	101	(1)
What Comes First?	102	(1)
Square Fractions	103	(3)
Adding and Subtracting Fractions	106	(3)
Multiplying Fractions	109	(3)
Dividing Fractions	112	(4)
Decimals and Real Numbers	116	(21)
What's My Name?	118	(2)
Who's First?	120	(1)
Race for the Flat	121	(1)
Empty the Board	122	(1)
Decimal Arrays	123	(2)
Decimal Multiplication	125	(1)
Target Number Revisited	126	(1)
People Proportions	127	(3)
A Call to the Border	130	(1)
What is Percent?	131	(2)
What Does It Mean?	133	(2)
Flex-it	135	(2)
Statistics: The Interpretation of Numbers	137	(28)
Graphing m&m's®	138	(4)
What's in the Bag?	142	(1)
Gaps and Clusters	143	(1)
Grouped Data	144	(2)
What's the Average	146	(3)
Finger-Snapping Time	149	(4)
The Weather Report	153	(4)
Are Women Catching Up?	157	(4)
To Change or Not to Change	161	(4)
Probability	165	(23)
What Are the Chances?	166	(1)
The Spinner Game	167	(2)
Numbers That Predict	169	(2)
Paper-Scissors-Rock	171	(2)
Simulate It	173	(2)
How Many Arrangements?	175	(4)
Theoretical Probability	179	(2)
It's in the Bag	181	(1)
Pascal's Probabilities	182	(2)
The Mystery Cube	184	(4)
Geometric Figures	188	(23)
What's the Angle?	190	(2)
Triangle Properties--Angles	192	(2)
Angles on Patterned Blocks	194	(2)
Sum of Interior/Exterior Angles	196	(2)
Name That Polygon	198	(1)
Spatial Visualization	199	(3)
A View from the Top	202	(2)
Inside or Outside?	204	(3)
Map Coloring	207	(4)
Concepts of Measurement	211	(29)
Units of Measure	212	(1)
What's My Area?	213	(3)
Areas of Polygons	216	(1)
Regular Polygons in a Row	217	(4)
From Rectangles to Parallelograms	221	(1)
From Parallelograms to Triangles	222	(1)
From Parallelograms to Trapezoids	223	(1)
Pythagorean Puzzles	224	(1)
Right or Not?	225	(2)
Surface Area	227	(3)
Volume of a Rectangular Solid	230	(2)
Pyramids and Cones	232	(5)
Compare Volume to Surface Area	237	(3)
Transformation, Symmetries, and Tilings	240	(29)
Slides, Flips, and Turns	241	(3)
How Did You Do It?	244	(2)
Double Flips	246	(2)
Reflections	248	(4)
Translations	252	(2)
Rotations	254	(2)
Glide Reflections	256	(2)
Transforgeo	258	(2)
Dilations	260	(3)
Cut It Out	263	(3)
Draw It	266	(3)
Congruence, Constructions, and Similarity	269	(18)
Triangle Properties-----Sides	270	(2)
To Be or Not to Be Congruent?	272	(3)
Paper Folding Construction	275	(3)
Pattern Block Similarity	278	(2)
Similar Triangles	280	(1)
Outdoor Geometry	281	(3)
Side Splitter Theorem	284	(3)
Coordinate Geometry	287
Mysterious Midpoints	288
Coordinate Transformations	290
Rectangles and Curves	292
Now You See It, Now You Don't	298
Appendix	A-1