Activities for Elementary Mathematics Teachers for Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers

Inhaltsverzeichnis

<>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

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Dolan, Dan Dolan, Mari Muri, James Williamson, James C. Williamson
• Verlag: Pearson Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.01.2007
• EAN: 9780321483560
• ISBN: 978-0-321-48356-0
• Seiten: 416
• Gewicht: 900 g
• Serien: Addison-Wesley; Addison-Wesley
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Schulpädagogik, Didaktik, Methodik; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Mathematik > Allgemeines, Lexika