Product Description

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-abstract 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 easy use, this handy resource is organized into the following eight sections, each covering concepts from a different area of mathematics.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #439283 in Books
• Published on: 1994-05-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 514 pages

From the Inside Flap
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.

From the Back Cover
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)

What's more, Hands-On Math! makes your job easier by providing you with scores of reproducible record sheets, workmats and other student handouts that you'll use as many times as needed.

About the Author
Frances M. Thompson, Ed.D. (University of Georgia) has taught mathematics at the junior and senior high school levels, served as a K-12 math specialist, and is currently professor of mathematics at Texas Woman's University, Denton.

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Customer Reviews

Good hands-on
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.

Awesome, easy, and hands on!
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!

Great Book!
Great book filled with creative hands on ideas for teaching math skills. Includes worksheets to go along with the lessons.