Activities for Elementary Mathematics Teachers for Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers

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.

<>Chapter 1 Mathematical Processes

 

Activity 1 Fascinating Fibonacci

 

Activity 2 Pictoral Patterns

 

Activity 3 Number Patterns

 

Activity 4 What's the Rule?

 

Activity 5 Polygons and Diagonals

 

Activity 6 Paper Powers

 

Activity 7 Magic Number Tricks

 

Activity 8 Missing Persons Report

 

Activity 9 Who Dunit?

 

Activity 10 What's the Number?

 

Activity 11 Eliminate the Impossible

 

Activity 12 Candies, Couples and a Quiz

 

Activity 13 When You Don't Know What to Do

 

Activity 14 Ten People in a Canoe

 

Activity 15 An Ancient Game

 

Activity 16 What's the Last Card?

 

Chapter Summary

 

 

Chapter 2 Sets and Whole Number Operations and Properties

 

Activity 1 What's in the Loop?

 

Activity 2 Loop de Loops

  

Activity 3 Odd and Even Patterns

 

Activity 4 Multiplication Arrays

 

Activity 5 Finding the Missing Factor

 

Activity 6 How Many Cookies?

 

Activity 7 A Visit to Fouria

 

Activity 8 Regrouping Numbers

 

Activity 9 Find the Missing Number

 

Chapter Summary

 

 

Chapter 3 Estimation and Computation

 

Activity 1 Three Strikes and You’re Out

 

Activity 2 Who’s Closest?

 

Activity 3 Target Number

 

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 Least and Greatest

 

Chapter Summary

 

 

Chapter 4 Number Theory

 

Activity 1 Great Divide Game

 

Activity 2 A Square Experiment

 

Activity 3 A Sieve of Another Sort

 

Activity 4 The Factor Game

 

Activity 5 How Many Factors?

 

Activity 6 Interesting Numbers

 

Activity 7 Tiling with Squares

 

Activity 8 Pool Factors

 

Chapter Summary

 

 

 

Chapter 5 Understanding Integer Operations and Properties

 

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 Integer × and ÷ Contig

 

 

Chapter 6 Rational Number Operations and Properties

 

Activity 1 What Is a Fraction?

 

Activity 2 Equivalent Fractions

 

Activity 3 Square Fractions

 

Activity 4 Adding and Subtracting Fractions

 

Activity 5 Multiplying Fractions

 

Activity 6 Dividing Fractions

 

Activity 7 Race for the Flat

 

Activity 8 Empty the Board

 

Activity 9 Decimal Arrays

 

Activity 10 Decimal Multiplication

 

Activity 11 Dice and Decimals

 

Activity 12 Target Number Revisited

 

Activity 13 How Big Is It?

 

Activity 14 Fraction War

 

Activity 15 What Comes First?

 

 Activity 16 What's My Name?

 

Activity 17 Who's First?

 

Activity 18 Deci-Order

 

Activity 19 Repeating Decimals

 

Chapter Summary

 

 

Chapter 7 Proportional Reasoning

 

Activity 1 Professors Short and Tall

 

Activity 2 People Proportions

 

Activity 3 A Call to the Border

 

Activity 4 Pattern Block Similarity

 

Activity 5 Similar Triangles

 

Activity 6 Side Splitter Theorem

 

Activity 7 What is Percent?

 

Activity 8 What Does It Mean?

 

Activity 9 Flex-it

 

Chapter Summary

 

 

Chapter 8 Analyzing Data

 

Activity 1 Graphing m&m's

 

Activity 2 What's in the Bag?

 

Activity 3 Gaps and Clusters

 

Activity 4 Grouped Data

  

Activity 5 Are Women Catching Up?

 

Activity 6 What's the Average?

 

Activity 7 Finger-Snapping Time

 

Activity 8 The Weather Report

 

Activity 9 To Change or Not to Change?

 

Activity 10 Populations and Samples

 

Chapter Summary

 

 Chapter 9 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 Simulate It

 

Activity 8 The Mystery Cube

 

Activity 9 What's the Distribution?

 

Activity 10 Pascal's Probabilities

 

Activity 11 How Many Arrangements?

 

Chapter Summary

 

 

Chapter 10 Introducing Geometry

 

Activity 1 What's the Angle?

 

Activity 2 Inside or Outside?

 

Activity 3 Map Coloring

 

Activity 4 Paper Folding Construction

 

Activity 5 Triangle Properties- Angles

 

Activity 6 Angles on Pattern Blocks

 

Activity 7 Sum of Interior/Exterior Angles

 

Activity 8 Triangle Properties- Sides

 

Activity 9 To Be or Not to Be Congruent?

 

Activity 10 Pythagorean Puzzles

 

Activity 11 Right or Not?

 

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

 

Activity 13 Name that Polygon

 

Chapter Summary

 

 

Chapter 11 Extending Geometry

 

 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 Cut It Out

 

Activity 11 Draw It

 

Activity 12 Tessellations

 

Activity 13 Stars and Angles

 

Activity 14 Spatial Visualization

 

Activity 15 A View from the Top

 

Chapter Summary

 

 

 

Chapter 12 Measurement

 

Activity 1 Units of Measure

 

Activity 2 Outdoor Geometry

 

Activity 3 Pick's Theorem

 

Activity 4 What's My Area?

 

Activity 5 Areas of Polygons

 

 

Activity 6 From Rectangles to Parallelograms

 

Activity 7 From Parallelograms to Triangles

 

Activity 8 From Parallelograms to Trapezoids

 

Activity 9 Volume of a Rectangular Solid

 

Activity 10 Pyramids and Cones

 

Activity 11 Surface Area

 

Activity 12 Compare Volume to Surface Area

 

Chapter Summary

 

 

Chapter 13 Exploring Ideas of Algebra and Coordinate Geometry

 

Activity 1 Regular Polygons in a Row

 

Activity 2 Patterns and Expressions

 

Activity 3 The Function Machine

 

Activity 4 What's My Function?

 

Activity 5 The King's Problem

 

Activity 6 Graphs and Stories

 

Activity 7 Exploring Linear Functions

 

Activity 8 Mysterious Midpoints

 

Activity 9 Graphing Rectangles

 

Activity 10 Coordinate Transformations

 

Chapter Summary

Appendices

Manipulatives

Activity Masters