This super treasury of 279 exciting math games and activities uses manipulatives, diagrams, and cooperative learning experiences to promote student understanding of math concepts and encourage them to apply math to their own lives.
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FRANCES M. THOMPSON has taught mathematics at the junior and senior high school levels and has served as a K-12 mathematics specialist. She received her doctoral degree in mathematics education from the University of Georgia at Athens. Dr. Thompson is the author of numerous articles and books, and conducts workshops for teachers at the elementary and secondary levels.
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Here's a super treasury of 279 exciting math games and activities that help students learn by engaging both their minds and their bodies. Dispensing with tired "rote" learning and memorization, Hands-On Math! uses fun-filled exercises that encourage your students to think and reason mathematically.
Illustrated, hands-on activities organized in natural concrete-to-abstaract progressions give your students the tools they need to solve math problems, while encouraging them to think independently and apply math to their own lives. In line with the latest NCTM guidelines, this invaluable teacher's aid develops basic and advanced math skills through an effective combination of concrete exercises (manipulatives), pictorial models and cooperative learning experiences. For eay use, this handy resource is organized into the following eight sections, each covering conc3epts from a different area of mathematic:
- NUMBER AND NUMBER RELATIONSHIP — "Enough to Round Off?" (concrete) ... "Shaded Squares" (pictorial) ... "Who Had More?" (cooperative)
- PATTERNS, RELATIONS AND FUNCTIONS — "Number Splitting" (concrete) ... "Decimal Patterns" (pictorial) ... "Sequence Scramble" (cooperative)
- DEVELOPMENT OF WRTTEN ALGORITHMS— "Building Equal Shares" (concrete) ... "Addition Diagrams" (pictorial) ... "Product Spin" (cooperative)
- GEOMETRY AND SPATIAL SENSE (including Symmetry)— "Folding Shapes" (concrete) ... "Changing the Perspective" (pictorial) ... "Similarity Search" (cooperative)
- MEASUREMENT — "Weighing In" (concrete) ... "Which Holds More?" (pictorial) ... "Time Predicting" (cooperative)
- STATISTICS AND PROBABLITY— "What Could Happen Here?"(concrete) ..."Making a Line Graph Record" (pictorial) ... "Mode Detectors" (cooperative)
- NUMBER THEORY — "Factor Forms"(concrete) ... "Prime Search" (pictorial) ... "Multiples Match" (cooperative)
- ALGEBRAIC THINKING — "Balancing Unknowns" (concrete) ... "Drawing Integer Combinations" (pictorial) ... "Equation Bashing" (cooperative)
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This review is from: Hands-On Math!: Ready-to-Use Games & Activities for Grades 4-8 (J-B Ed: Hands On) (Paperback)
This is an excellent resource book for middle school classes. The projects are cheap, using items you probably have in your classroom. They are hands-on,yet well organized. I have 33 students in one class and almost all of these projects can be done in this environment. Great for your kinesthetic and visual spatial learners.
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This review is from: Hands-On Math!: Ready-To-Use Games & Activities for Grades 4-8 (Paperback)
As a fourth grade teacher looking for easy, engaging, hands-on activities, this resource did it! I loved this book! I had colleagues asking to borrow it!
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Great Book!,
This review is from: Hands-On Math!: Ready-To-Use Games & Activities for Grades 4-8 (Paperback)
Great book filled with creative hands on ideas for teaching math skills. Includes worksheets to go along with the lessons.
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1. Give each pair of students a base 10 frame and 10 counters in each of 5 colors. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
whole unit bar, common part size, second whole bar, spinner needle, first whole bar, building mat, centimeter grid paper, same part size, one whole bar, following number sentence, fraction worksheet, team one pair, largest place value, total tiles, red counters, multiplication worksheet, pattern worksheet, subtraction cards, total cookies, written algorithms, inch grid paper, interval cards, secondary ratio, fraction bars, purple rod Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Concrete Action, Pictorial Action, Cooperative Groups, Multicultural Mathematics Materials, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Spinner Pattern Worksheet, Angle Worksheet, Association Drive, Pencils Paper Management, Divisor Dividend, Pencils Fraction, Decimal Worksheet, New York, Northern Paiute, Perimeter Small New!
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1. Give each pair of students a base 10 frame and 10 counters in each of 5 colors. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
whole unit bar, common part size, second whole bar, spinner needle, first whole bar, building mat, centimeter grid paper, same part size, one whole bar, following number sentence, fraction worksheet, team one pair, largest place value, total tiles, red counters, multiplication worksheet, pattern worksheet, subtraction cards, total cookies, written algorithms, inch grid paper, interval cards, secondary ratio, fraction bars, purple rod Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Concrete Action, Pictorial Action, Cooperative Groups, Multicultural Mathematics Materials, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Spinner Pattern Worksheet, Angle Worksheet, Association Drive, Pencils Paper Management, Divisor Dividend, Pencils Fraction, Decimal Worksheet, New York, Northern Paiute, Perimeter Small New!
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- Multicultural Mathematics Materials by Marina C. Krause on 7 pages
- Games of the North American Indians by Stewart Culin on page 193
- The Art of Ancient Peru by Shirley Glubok on page 398
- Hands-On Algebra: Ready-To-Use Games & Activities for Grades 7-12 by Frances McBroom Thompson Ed.D. in Front Matter
- Hands-On Math!: Ready-To-Use Games & Activities for Grades 4-8 by Frances M. Thompson in Back Cover
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