Arithmetic Teacher articles from October 1993

Arithmetic Teacher archives from October 1993

Bea's Four Bears.
October 1, 1993... Martha Weston. 1992,28 pp., $9.95 cloth. ISBN 0-395-57791-8. Clarion Books, 215 Park Ave., S., New York, NY 10003. This book for young readers describes the adventures of four bears and their playful owner. Edited by Keith Chong School...

How Do Octopi Eat Pizza Pie?
October 1, 1993... Susan Darwin, Beth Grout, and David McCoy, eds. 1992, 63 pp., $13.95 cloth. ISBN 0-8094-9950-9. Time-Life for Children, 777 Duke St., Alexandria, VA 22314. This book is part of a series titled I Love Math; they are books intended for...

It's About Time!
October 1, 1993... Lee Bennett Hopkins. 1993, 36pp.,$]4 cloth. ISBN 0-671-78512-5. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 15 Columbus Cir., New York, NY 10023. Well-known poet and anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins has chosen sixteen poems that focus on the...

Sunday Morning.
October 1, 1993... Judith Viorst, illus. by Hilary Knight. 1992, 30pp., $13.95 cloth. ISBN 0-689-31794-8.Atheneum Publishers, 866 Third Ave., New York, NY 10022. Anthony and Nicholas, two young boys with a lot of energy and imagination, are told by their...

Twelve Ways to Get to Eleven.
October 1, 1993... Eve Merriam, illus. by Bernie Karlin. 1993, 28 pp., $14 cloth. ISBN 0-671-75544-7. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 15 Columbus Cir., New York, NY 10023. Here is an unusual counting book that begins with a puzzle: "One, two,...

Two Feet.
October 1, 1993... Gwen Pascoe and David Kennett. 1992,16-pp. big book + teaching guide, $16 95. Macmillan Whole-Language Big Book Program, P.O. Box 938, Hicksville, NY 11802-9820. We follow the adventures of two feet in this big book for young readers. Two...

What Do I Do at Eight O'Clock?
October 1, 1993... Carla Dijs. 1993, 20 pp., $8.95 cloth. ISBN 0-671-79526-0. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 15 Columbus Cir, New York, NY10023. Here is a pop-up book about time for young readers. A clock with movable hands is placed in the right...

Basic Decimals.
October 1, 1993... Jerome D. Kaplan, ed 1992, 11-pp. teacher's guide, 175 pp., $6.95 paper. ISBN 0-87694-397-0; Basic Decimals, Jerome D. Kaplan, ed 1992, 11-pp. teacher's guide, 152 pp., $6.95paper. ISBN 0-87694-398-9. Educational Design, 47 West 13th St., New...

Math Fun: Test Your Luck.
October 1, 1993... Rose Wyler and Mary Elting, illus. by Patrick Girouard. 1992, 64pp., $10.98 cloth. ISBN 0-671-74311-2. Simon & Schuster Children's Books, 15 Columbus Cir., New York, NY 10023. Math Fun: Test Your Luck is an easy-to-read book targeted for...

Math Stories.
October 1, 1993... Teacher's Guide, 32pp., $4.50paper. ISBN 0-88336-749-1. New Readers Press, P.O. Box 131, Syracuse, NY 13210. Math Stories takes mathematical word problems one step further and presents problems in a short-story format. Consisting of a...

Mind Bugs: The Origins of Procedural Misconceptions.
October 1, 1993... MIT Press, 55 Hayward St., Cambridge, MA 02142. This book is based on the author's doctoral thesis undertaken at MIT in the early 1980s. Despite the subtitle, it has almost nothing to tell us about the source of students' misconceptions. It...

What's Cooking, Jenny Archer?
October 1, 1993... What's Cooking, Jenny Archer? Ellen Conford, illus. by Diane Palmisciano. 1989, 69 pp., $2.95 paper. ISBN 0-316-15357-5. Little, Brown & Co., 34 Beacon St., Boston, MA 02108. Jenny Archer doesn't like the lunches made at school. When she...

Different perspective. (teacher's view of the mathematical world through a student's perspective)
October 1, 1993... Calvin, the quintessential first grader, is delightfully bratty and philosophical at the same time. He has much to say to mathematics teachers about valuing different perspectives and points of view (see fig. 1). As teachers, we are asked...

Estimation is mathematical thinking.
October 1, 1993... Do I have enough money to buy the milk and the cereal, plus two cans of cat food? Can all the milk left in the carton fit in my glass? Will this fifty-foot hose be long enough to water the tomatoes at the back of the garden? We...

Becca's investigation. (importance of developing curiosity in students)
October 1, 1993... As my eleven-year-old daughter. Becca, was doing her mathematics homework one night, she called me into her room. "Dad, do you think ~36 x 8' is the same as ~48 x 6'?" "Well, I'm not sure," I said. And before I could do any further...

Extending the regular curriculum through creative problem solving.
October 1, 1993... Standard 2 of the NCTM's Professionals Standards for Teaching Mathematics (1991) challenges elementary school teachers of mathematics to encourage classroom discourse by -- * posing questions and tasks that elicit, engage, and challenge...

Implementing the 'professional standards for teaching mathematics': questioning in the mathematics classroom.
October 1, 1993... For many of us, implementing the Professional Standards for Teaching Mathematics (NCTM 1991) in our classrooms makes great sense. It is clearly reasonable that if students are to develop an understanding of and an ability to use mathematical...

Twentieth century mathematics for the elementary school.
October 1, 1993... In this article, H. Van Engen goes directly to the bottom line and places the responsibility for the problem that exists in elementary mathematics on elementary, secondary, and college teachers. Now, thirty years later, all these groups must...

You've learned it when you can use it.
October 1, 1993... Mrs. Rodriguez, a fifth-grade teacher, expresses a feeling common among middle- and upper-grade teachers. "I taught him the skill, but you know--he just doesn't use it outside my classroom. We practice and practice--he can do it in my class,...

Strategies for estimating discrete quantities.
October 1, 1993... A student's ability to estimate discrete quantity has important implications for the development of mathematical power. Hofstadter (1985) and Paulos (1988) both suggest that the ability to estimate is intimately tied to the growth of...

SAFEMAP. (Santa Ana/Fullerton Elementary Mathematics Project)
October 1, 1993... SAFEMAP is an acronym for the Santa Ana/Fullerton Elementary Mathematics Project, a partnership between the Santa Ana Unified School District and California State University at Fullerton and is cofunded with the National Science Foundation....

Making equity a reality in classrooms. (equal participation in classrooms)
October 1, 1993... The NCTM's Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (1989) speaks of the necessity of providing effective mathematics education for all students. Noting that "the social injustices of past schooling practices can no longer be...

Wonderland Puzzles. (logic games for students)(computer software) (Evaluation)
October 1, 1993... Wonderland Puzzles. 1992, Apple IIe, 128K, l disk & backup + 58-pp. manual, ISBN 0-7929-0226-2,$59. MECC, 6160 Summit Dr., N., Minneapolis, MN 55430-4003. Wonderland Puzzles is a set of four logic games, the first level being "Rabbit...

Logic Blocks. (computer software) (Evaluation)
October 1, 1993... Logic Blocks, 1992 Manipulative math series, Mike Gralish. Macintosh, I Color Version disk + 51 -pp. instruction guide, $59. Learning Box, 4508 Valleycrest Dr., Arlington, TX 76013. Logic Blocks is a delightful program designed to allow...

Angus Thought He Was Big.
October 1, 1993... A. Graham and W. Wood. 1991,16-pp. big book + teaching guide, $16 95. Macmillan Whole-Language Big Book Program, P.O. Box 938, Hicksville, NY 11802-9820. A young boy named Angus thought he was big until he saw Ernie, a tall clown. He then...

Mother Earth's Counting Book.
October 1, 1993... Andrew Clements, illus. by Lonni Sue Johnson. 1992, 40 pp., $15.95 cloth. ISBN 0-88708-138-X. Simon & Schuster Children's Books, 15 Columbus Cir., New York, NY 10023. Here is a most unusual counting book that enumerates features and...

Basic Fractions.
October 1, 1993... Jerome D. Kaplan, ed 1992, 11-pp. teacher's guide, 175 pp., $6.95 paper. ISBN 0-87694-397-0; Basic Decimals, Jerome D. Kaplan, ed 1992, 11-pp. teacher's guide, 152 pp., $6.95paper. ISBN 0-87694-398-9. Educational Design, 47 West 13th St., New...

Perspectives on Early Childhood Education.
October 1, 1993... Perspectives on Early Childhood Education, David Elkind, ed. 1991, 262 pp., $19.95 paper. ISBN 0-8106-0351-9. National Education Association, 1201 ]6th St., N. W., Washington, DC 20036. Perspectives on Early Childhood Education is a...

Starting Maths.
October 1, 1993... Starting Maths, Karen Bryant-Mole. Adding, 1990, 32 pp., cloth, ISBN 1-85210-875-4; Measuring, 32 pp., cloth, ISBN 1-85210-953-X; Taking Away, 32 pp., cloth, ISBN 1-85210-876-2. Numbers, Jacqueline Dineen. 32 pp., cloth ISBN 1-85210-845-2;...

Forecast: changing mathematics curriculum and increasing pressure for higher-level thinking skills.
October 1, 1993... There's a lot of exciting new technology that the weather service plans to incorporate in the next decade. But, to do that, positions in the weather service will have to be upgraded from technical to scientific, people with a higher level of...