Mathematics Activities for Elementary School Teachers: A Problem Solving Approach

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

• ISBN13: 9780321408983
• ISBN10: 0321408985
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780321174130, 9780321575685
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-01
• Publisher: Addison Wesley
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Summary

This manual features activities that can be used to develop, reinforce, and/or apply mathematical concepts. The activities for each concept are ordered by developmental level within each chapter.

Table of Contents

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

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