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"All math teachers will find lessons and activities that provide meaningful instruction while making mathematics more enjoyable to students. This book gives teachers the structure to plan appropriate, fun-filled lessons of their own."
—Dixon D. Van Hook, Math Coach
Cross Creek Elementary School, Thomasville, GA
"Provides hands-on activities that follow the structure of effective lesson design. Whether you are a seasoned teacher looking for activities to expand your repertoire or a new teacher building a library of resources, this book is an essential planning tool."
—Holly Savoie, Third-Grade Teacher
Mimosa Park Elementary School, Luling, LA
Imaginative mathematics activities that maximize the brain's learning potential!
Demonstrating instructional principles discussed in David A. Sousa's bestseller, How the Brain Learns Mathematics, this resource provides brain-friendly, ready-to-use mathematics lessons for Grades 2-3. Teachers will find step-by-step guidance and all the necessary reproducibles for mathematics instruction that involves group work, reflection, movement, and visualization. Through activities such as Jumping Jelly Beans, Math Hockey, and Treasure Hunt, young learners will enjoy developing skills connected with number patterns and place value, multi-digit addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions, measurement, geometry, and more.
Aligned with NCTM standards and focal points, the instructional strategies enhance motivation and content retention, address individual intelligences, and:
Promote writing as an important learning tool
Use concrete models to make concepts meaningful
Connect mathematical ideas to the real world
Incorporate graphic organizers to help students organize their thinking
Teach creative problem solving
Deepen and revitalize instruction using Sousa's proven brain-compatible approach for helping every student develop self-confidence in mathematics!
Contents
Introduction
Links to Focal Points and Standards
1. Base-Ten and Place Value
Jumping Jellybeans
Hundred Board-O
Order Up!
Number Neighborhood
Stretching Numbers
Place Value Pause
Place Value Bingo
2. Multi-Digit Addition and Subtraction
Sum Roll
Ball Toss
Math Hockey
Fact Family Trees
3. Multiplication and Division
Tray Arrays
Grape Groups
Button Fact Families
Opposites Attract
Show Me the Money!
Draw and Divide
4. Fractions
Fruity Fractions
Pieces of Pizza
Treasure Hunt
Take a Bigger Bite!
Fraction Cookie Bars
5. Measurement
Measuring Tools
Measure Mania
Me and My Shadow
Tic-Tac-Time
Race for Time!
Pour It Out
Measurement Scavenger Hunt
Measure My Classroom
Box It!
6. Geometry
Name My Shape
Shape Stories
Shape-y Shake-y
Pattern Block Party
Letter Perfect Symmetry
We?re Congruent
Polygon Art
Shape Sort
7. Data Analysis
Let It Roll
Counting Candy
A Day at the Zoo
Button Bonanza
Weather Watchers
Picture Perfect
Hot and Cold
Eye-Catching Graphs
Survey Says
Journal Page
Answer Key
References
