Full Description
A fun, easy-to-implement collection of activities that give elementary and middle-school students a real understanding of key math concepts
Math is a difficult and abstract subject for many students, yet teachers need to make sure their students comprehend basic math concepts. This engaging activity book is a resource teachers can use to give students concrete understanding of the math behind the questions on most standardized tests, and includes information that will give students a firm grounding to work with more advanced math concepts.
Contains over 100 activities that address topics like number sense, geometry, computation, problem solving, and logical thinking.
Includes projects and activities that are correlated to National Math Education Standards
Activities are presented in order of difficulty and address different learning styles
Math Wise! is a key resource for teachers who want to teach their students the fundamentals that drive math problems.
Contents
About This Resource v
About the Authors ix
Suggestions for Using Math Wise! xi
I. Making Sense of Numbers 1
1. Toothpick Storybooks 3
2. Number Combination Noisy Boxes 5
3. Everyday Things Numberbooks 7
4. Under the Bowl 9
5. Cheerios™ and Fruit Loops™ Place Value 11
6. Beans and Beansticks 13
7. Incredible Expressions 19
8. Number Cutouts 22
9. Celebrate 100 Days 27
10. Paper Plate Fractions 30
11. Bean Cups to 1,000 33
12. Dot Paper Fractions 36
13. Fraction Cover-up or Un-cover 43
14. Post-it™ Mental Math 47
15. Calendar Math 50
16. Let's Have Order 54
17. Reject a Digit 57
18. A Million or More 62
19. Smallest and Largest 66
20. Numbers to Words to Numbers 71
21. Target a Number 74
22. Fraction Codes 77
23. Comparing Fractions, Decimals, and Percents 80
24. Number Clues 83
25. Number Power Walks 91
II. Computation Connections 95
26. Paper Clip Addition Cards 97
27. Arm-Lock Computation 100
28. Punchy Math 104
29. Multiplication Fact Fold-Outs 106
30. Ziploc™ Division 109
31. Dot Paper Diagrams 112
32. File Folder Activities 119
33. Beat the Calculator 122
34. Floor Number Line Actions 125
35. Egg Carton Math 128
36. Cross-line Multiplication 133
37. Highlighting Multiplication 136
38. Chalkboard or Tabletop Spinner Games 139
39. Skunk 143
40. Subtraction Squares 147
41. Drawing Fraction Common Denominators 151
42. Fraction x and ÷ Diagrams 154
43. Decimal Squares 158
44. Square Scores 163
45. Math Concentration 168
46. Scramble 170
47. Palindromic Addition 174
48. Paper Clip Division 179
49. I Have—, Who Has—? 182
50. Number Grids 186
51. Here I Am 189
52. Equation Match-Up 194
53. Block Four 196
54. Silent Math 203
55. Rapid Checking 206
III. Investigations and Problem Solving 209
56. Shoe Graphs 211
57. Sticky Gooey Cereal Probability 214
58. Sugar Cube Buildings 219
59. A Chocolate Chip Hunt 223
60. Flexagon Creations 228
61. Watermelon Math 232
62. Restaurant Menu Math 235
63. Peek Box Probability 238
64. A Problem-Solving Plan 242
65. Fraction Quilt Designs 247
66. What I Do in a Day 250
67. Shaping Up 254
68. Verbal Problems 260
69. Scheduling 271
70. Student-Devised Word Problems 274
71. Tired Hands 278
72. Paper Airplane Mathematics 281
73. A Dog Pen Problem 285
74. Building the Largest Container 288
75. The Three M's (Mean, Median, and Mode) 290
76. Post-it Statistics 294
77. A Postal Problem 297
78. Build the ''Best'' Doghouse 301
79. Dog Races 304
80. Four-Coin Statistics 308
81. Tube Taping 312
82. Height with a Hypsometer 317
83. Fairness at the County Fair 321
84. Winning a Prize Spelling ''NUT'' 328
85. Building Toothpick Bridges 332
86. A Bridge with a Bulge 335
IV. Logical Thinking 339
87. Stacking Oranges 341
88. Tell Everything You Can 345
89. Handshake Logic 349
90. 2- and 3-D Arrangements 352
91. Overhead Tic-Tac-Toe 355
92. Magic Triangle Logic 358
93. Paper Clip Spinners 361
94. Triangle Toothpick Logic 364
95. Rectangle Toothpick Logic 367
96. What Graph Is This? 372
97. Fold-and-Punch Patterns 377
98. Coordinate Clues 380
99. Puzzlers with Paper 383
100. Create a Tessellation 388
101. Problem Puzzlers 392
102. Dartboard Logic 397
103. Angelica's Bean Logic 401
104. Line It Out 404
105. Duplicate Digit Logic 408
106. String Triangle Geometry 411
107. A Potpourri of Logical-Thinking Problems, Puzzles, and Activities 414
Plan a Circuit Board 414
22 Wheels and 7 Kids 415
Candy Box Logic 416
Brownie Cutting 416
Making Sums with 0-9 417
Upside-down Displays 418
Coin Walk 418
Dice Plotting 419
Coin Divide 420
Animal Pens 420
12 Days of Christmas 421
Rubber Sheet Geometry 422
How Long Is a Groove? 423
Solutions to Selected Potpourri Activities 424
Selected Bibliography 427
Index 428
