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9780321043283

Activities for Elementary Mathematics Teachers

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  • 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

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