Mathematics Activities for Elementary School Teachers: A Problem Solving Approach, 6th Edition
ISBN-10: 0-321-40898-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-321-40898-3
Published by Addison-Wesley
© 2007
Pub. Date: May 19, 2006
Format: Paper
Additional Course Materials
Description
FEATURES:
- 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.
Table of Contents
| 1 | An Introduction to Problem Solving |
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| Activity 1 When You Don't Know What to Do |
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| Activity 2 Ten People in a Canoe |
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| Activity 3 An Ancient Game |
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| Activity 4 Magic Number Tricks |
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| Activity 5 Missing Persons Report |
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| Activity 6 Who Dunit? |
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| Activity 7 What's the Number? |
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| Activity 8 Eliminate the Impossible |
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| Activity 9 Candies, Couples and a Quiz |
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| Activity 10 Pictoral Patterns |
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| Activity 11 Number Patterns |
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| Activity 12 What's the Rule? |
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| Activity 13 Polygons and Diagonals |
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| Activity 14 Paper Powers |
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| Activity 15 What's the Last Card? |
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| Chapter Summary |
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| 2 | Sets, Whole Numbers, and Functions |
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| Activity 1 Attribute Elimination |
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| Activity 2 Sort and Classify |
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| Activity 3 What's in the Loop? |
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| Activity 4 Loop de Loops |
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| Activity 5 What's in the Loops? |
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| Activity 6 Odd and Even Patterns |
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| Activity 7 Multiplication Arrays |
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| Activity 8 Finding the Missing Factor |
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| Activity 9 How Many Cookies? |
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| Activity 10 The Function Machine |
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| Activity 11 What's My Function? |
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| Chapter Summary |
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| 3 | Numeration Systems and Whole Number Computation |
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| Activity 1 A Visit to Fouria |
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| Activity 2 Regrouping Numbers |
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| Activity 3 Find the Missing Numbers |
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| Activity 4 It All Adds Up |
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| Activity 5 What's the Difference? |
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| Activity 6 Multi-digit Multiplication |
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| Activity 7 Multi-digit Division |
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| Activity 8 Division Array |
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| Activity 9 Target Number |
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| Activity 10 Least and Greatest |
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| Chapter Summary |
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| 4 | Integers and Number Theory |
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| Activity 1 Charged Particles |
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| Activity 2 Coin Counters |
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| Activity 3 Addition Patterns |
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| Activity 4 Subtracting Integers |
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| Activity 5 Subtraction Patterns |
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| Activity 6 A Clown on a Tightrope |
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| Activity 7 Multiplication and Division Patterns |
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| Activity 8 A Square Experiment |
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| Activity 9 A Sieve of Another Sort |
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| Activity 10 The Factor Game |
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| Activity 11 How Many Factors? |
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| Activity 12 Interesting Numbers |
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| Activity 13 Tiling with Squares |
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| Activity 14 Pool Factors |
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| Chapter Summary |
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| 5 | Rational Numbers as Fractions |
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| Activity 1 What Is a Fraction? |
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| Activity 2 Equivalent Fractions |
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| Activity 3 How Big Is It? |
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| Activity 4 Fraction War |
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| Activity 5 What Comes First? |
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| Activity 6 Square Fractions |
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| Activity 7 Adding and Subtracting Fractions |
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| Activity 8 Multiplying Fractions |
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| Activity 9 Dividing Fractions |
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| Activity 10 The King's Problem |
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| Activity 11 People Proportions |
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| Activity 12 A Call to the Border |
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| Chapter Summary |
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| 6 | Decimals, Percents, and Real Numbers |
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| Activity 1 What's My Name? |
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| Activity 2 Who's First? |
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| Activity 3 Deci-Order |
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| Activity 4 Race for the Flat |
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| Activity 5 Empty the Board |
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| Activity 6 Decimal Arrays |
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| Activity 7 Decimal Multiplication |
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| Activity 8 Dice and Decimals |
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| Activity 9 Target Number Revisited |
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| Activity 10 What is Percent? |
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| Activity 11 What Does It Mean? |
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| Activity 12 Flex-it |
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| Chapter Summary |
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| 7 | Probability |
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| Activity 1 What Are the Chances? |
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| Activity 2 The Spinner Game |
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| Activity 3 Numbers That Predict |
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| Activity 4 Theoretical Probability |
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| Activity 5 It's in the Bag |
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| Activity 6 Paper-Scissors-Rock |
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| Activity 7 What's the Distribution? |
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| Activity 8 Pascal's Probabilities |
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| Activity 9 Simulate It |
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| Activity 10 The Mystery Cube |
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| Activity 11 How Many Arrangements? |
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| Chapter Summary |
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| 8 | Statistics: An Introduction |
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| Activity 1 Graphing m&m's |
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| Activity 2 What's in the Bag |
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| Activity 3 Gaps and Clusters |
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| Activity 4 Grouped Data |
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| Activity 5 What's the Average? |
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| Activity 6 Finger-Snapping Time |
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| Activity 7 The Weather Report |
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| Activity 8 Are Women Catching Up? |
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| Activity 9 To Change or Not to Change? |
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| Activity 10 Populations and Samples |
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| Chapter Summary |
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| 9 | Introductory Geometry |
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| Activity 1 What's the Angle? |
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| Activity 2 Inside or Outside? |
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| Activity 3 Triangle Properties- Angles |
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| Activity 4 Angles on Pattern Blocks |
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| Activity 5 Sum of Interior/Exterior Angles |
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| Activity 6 Stars and Angles |
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| Activity 7 Name that Polygon |
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| Activity 8 Spatial Visualization |
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| Activity 9 A View from the Top |
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| Activity 10 Map Coloring |
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| Chapter Summary |
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| 10 | Constructions, Congruence, and Similarity |
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| Activity 1 Triangle Properties- Sides |
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| Activity 2 To Be or Not to Be Congruent? |
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| Activity 3 Paper Folding Construction |
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| Activity 4 Pattern Block Similarity |
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| Activity 5 Similar Triangles |
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| Activity 6 Outdoor Geometry |
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| Activity 7 Side Splitter Theorem |
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| Activity 8 Mysterious Midpoints |
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| Chapter Summary |
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| 11 | Concepts of Measurement |
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| Activity 1 Units of Measure |
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| Activity 2 Regular Polygons in a Row |
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| Activity 3 What's My Area? |
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| Activity 4 Areas of Polygons |
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| Activity 5 Pick's Theorem |
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| Activity 6 From Rectangles to Parallelograms |
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| Activity 7 From Parallelograms to Triangles |
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| Activity 8 From Parallelograms to Trapezoids |
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| Activity 9 Graphing Rectangles |
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| Activity 10 Pythagorean Puzzles |
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| Activity 11 Right or Not? |
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| Activity 12 Now You See It, Now You Don't |
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| Activity 13 Surface Area |
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| Activity 14 Volume of a Rectangular Solid |
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| Activity 15 Pyramids and Cones |
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| Activity 16 Compare Volume to Surface Area |
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| Chapter Summary |
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| 12 | Motion Geometry and Tessellations |
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| Activity 1 Slides, Flips, and Turns |
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| Activity 2 How Did You Do It? |
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| Activity 3 Double Flips |
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| Activity 4 Reflections |
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| Activity 5 Translations |
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| Activity 6 Transforgeo |
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| Activity 7 Rotations |
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| Activity 8 Glide Reflections |
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| Activity 9 Size Transformations |
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| Activity 10 Coordinate Transformations |
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| Activity 11 Cut It Out |
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| Activity 12 Draw It |
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| Activity 13 Tessellations |
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| Chapter Summary |
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| Appendices |
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