Arithmetic Teacher articles from September 1993

Arithmetic Teacher archives from September 1993

Supporting instruction through assessment.
September 1, 1993... The focus on alternative assessment is an exciting movement in education. In the effort to assess students' knowledge, the emphases on measuring what is valued and in a manner consistent with sound instructional practices are potentially...

Connecting learning and teaching through assessment.
September 1, 1993... We are beginning to understand that the teacher-as-researcher role encourages a teacher to reflect on teaching practices and students' learning, which is a promising strategy for changing the way mathematics is taught, learned, and assessed...

Using biographies to "humanize" the mathematics class.
September 1, 1993... Using biographies of mathematicians can successfully bring the human story into the mathematics class. What struggles have these people undergone to be able to study mathematics? Who developed the ideas that we continue to study today? How...

Writing mathematics.
September 1, 1993... Two years ago I found myself teaching a seventh-grade mathematics class. Many of the students were two or more years behind the rest of the seventh grade in this subject, and most lacked either self-discipline or motivation to learn in any...

Graphing trash material.
September 1, 1993... Background Most students discard items in the classroom without thinking about what kinds of materials they are throwing away. This activity increases students' awareness of the number and kinds of materials they discard. It also...

Classroom paper.
September 1, 1993... Background Using paper is a traditional part of classroom life. Efforts to conserve may start with a careful look at paper use. This activity requires students to keep track of their own paper use for a week then interpret their results...

Aluminum cans.
September 1, 1993... Background People drink soda, juices, tea, and other beverages from aluminum cans. These cans are fairly inexpensive to.produce, but since aluminum can be recycled, much material and energy could be saved if people would recycle their...

How to bag it?
September 1, 1993... Background Virtually every shopper leaves the store with a bag. The authors of Fifty Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth (Javna 1990) comments that most bags are made of the "earth's treasures." Producing bags uses such...

Plastic packaging.
September 1, 1993... Objective To gather and graph data, to interpret the graph, to develop a recycling plan Directions 1. Show an item or two marked with a plastic recycling symbol. Use a disposable cup made of clear plastic or Styrofoam, a...

Teaching mathematics with technology: using the video camera in mathematical problem solving.
September 1, 1993... Using the Video Camera in Mathematical Problem Solving In the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM 1989), technology, including the use of video, is discussed as a way to develop mathematical thinking...

Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics, Addenda Series, Grades K-6, Third-Grade Book.
September 1, 1993... These books are part of the Addenda Series, which was designed to "interpret and evaluate the NCTM's Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (1989). (It is composed of seven books spanning kindergarten to sixth grade.) Each...

Mathematical Challenges for the Middle Grades: From the Mathematics Teacher Calendar Problems.
September 1, 1993... Mathematical Challenges for the Middle Grades (a companion piece to the NCTM's Mathematical Challenges for the Middle Grades: From the Arithmetic Teacher) is an excellent resource for teachers. This compilation of 129 entries from the...

Books You Can Count On: Linking Mathematics and Literature.
September 1, 1993... Books You Can Count On presents a range of books and poems that can be used in a classroom to teach mathematics. Each of the selections includes a synopsis of the story, suggested mathematical focuses, activities, extension ideas, assessment...

Enhancing Thinking Through Cooperative Learning.
September 1, 1993... This edited collection is centered on HOTSICLE-higher-order-thinking skills in cooperative-learning environments. Chapters 1, 2, and 3 furnish a broad background to the cooperative-learning movement. Chapters 4-12 are practice-oriented,...

Guiding Children's Learning of Mathematics, 6th ed.
September 1, 1993... Kennedy and Tipps have extensively revised this edition of their text book for K-6 mathematics teachers. The book consists of three major parts: foundations for teaching mathematics, four general strands, and procedures and materials. The first...

Mathematics in a Cultural Context: Aboriginal Perspectives on Space, Time and Money.
September 1, 1993... Harris's book is essentially a compilation of three reports prepared for the Mathematics in Aboriginal Schools Project conducted in the Northern Territory of Australia. Harris points out that if the Aboriginal people were to set up their own...

Brown's Directory of Instructional Programs: Mathematics K-8.
September 1, 1993... The purpose of Brown's Directories of Instructional Programs is "...to provide unbiased descriptions of the array of instructional programs from which you can choose" (p. xiii). They are intended as a "tool that will give you concise, yet...

Instructor's Resource Manual.
September 1, 1993... Kennedy and Tipps have extensively revised this edition of their text book for K-6 mathematics teachers. The book consists of three major parts: foundations for teaching mathematics, four general strands, and procedures and materials. The first...

Measuring Up: Prototypes for Mathematics Assessment.
September 1, 1993... In 1991, the Mathematical Sciences Education Board created a writing group to explore the meaning of mathematical power and show what schoolchildren should be able to do in mathematics. The criteria they set for developing their assessment...

Natural Learning and Mathematics.
September 1, 1993... This book is designed for those who are looking for a more holistic approach to teaching elementary mathematics. It is a starting point from which the authors hope teachers will go on to "explore and expand the possibilities for engaging...

Understanding Maths, Adding and Subtracting, Graphs and Charts, Measurement, Multiplying and Dividing, Numbers, Shape.
September 1, 1993... This series of six thirty-two-page booklets is designed to help elementary school students understand basic mathematics concepts. It is published in the United Kingdom and follows the guidelines of its National Curriculum. The booklets are...

Houses and Homes.
September 1, 1993... Through a series of crisp color photographs by Ken Heyman, readers are introduced to a wide variety of houses throughout the world and to a discussion of features that make them homes. The simple text classifies these houses in different ways,...

June 29, 1999.
September 1, 1993... While the rest of her third-grade classmates sprout seedlings in paper cups, Holly Evans plans a more innovative science experiment. Using helium weather balloons and cardboard boxes, she launches groups of seedlings into the sky. She intends...

Mathemagic.
September 1, 1993... This book is filled with a wide variety of mathematical tricks. It begins with "calculator capers" that involve guessing a person's favorite number or determining the year in which someone was born. The author includes some card tricks, as well...

Nine O'Clock Lullaby.
September 1, 1993... The rhythmic lullaby of the author's words and the illustrator's bright pictures transport the reader through different time zones and distant lands. The book begins with Mama reading a sleepy-time tale at 9:00 p.m. in Brooklyn, New York....

Numbers at Play: A Counting Book.
September 1, 1993... This counting book combines poetry,, fine art and photography to depict the numerals from 1 to 10. For each of the numbers, the book contains two presentations. The first example asks the reader to count a set of objects that are found in a...

Shape in Nature.
September 1, 1993... Here is a beautiful wordless picture book that invites children to look more closely at the world around them. Each page shows a color photograph of a shape in nature and a black outline of that page. The common shapes of crescents, spirals,...

Spirals, Curves, Fanshapes, & Lines.
September 1, 1993... Tana Hoban has created another book that invites readers to take a closer look at the world around them. Through a series of color photographs, she shows a wide variety of objects, both manufactured and naturally occurring, that exhibit the...

What Neat Feet!
September 1, 1993... The author uses color photographs and informative text to describe the feet of a swan, seal, rabbit, goat, cat, camel, and elephant and shows how the distinctive design of each foot helps the animal survive in its environment. Readers learn...

Breathtaking Noses.
September 1, 1993... Noses are used to smell, breathe, and produce sounds, but some noses also have special functions. Through a series of color photographs, readers get a close-up look at the noses of a fish, snake, swan, pig, dog, camel, and walrus and learn how...

Adventures in Thinking.
September 1, 1993... Are you looking for adventure, excitement, fun, and several cooperative-learning activities for a fifth- or sixth-grade mathematics class composed of students of different levels of achievement and experiences? Heath Mathematics has the...

The Children's Mathematics Calendar 1993.
September 1, 1993... This calendar is designed so that a different mathematics problem appears on each day and a different and interesting topic to investigate arises each month. Origami, fractals, tessellations, logic, and geometry investigations are a few of the...

Fast Food for Thought: Delta Fraction Burger.
September 1, 1993... Fast Food for Thought is a tool for teaching fractions. The wooden model of a hamburger consists of seven parts including a hamburger and bun with onion, cheese, tomato, and lettuce cut into fractions of different sizes. For example, the yellow...

Historical Connections in Mathematics: Resources for Using History of Mathematics in the Classroom.
September 1, 1993... Every day in mathematics classrooms across the nation, students experience the challenge and rigor of the mathematics curriculum. However, the long and colorful history of the subject has, for the most part, been omitted. One of the NCTM's...

Maneuvers with Angles.
September 1, 1993... These materials generate high interest among students of varied ability levels in grades 5-8. Students experiment in, and measure and draw directly on, the student laboratory book. Students apply mathematical concepts as they solve multistep...

Maneuvers with Nickels and Numbers.
September 1, 1993... This extensive high-interest program for students in grades 5-8 includes both a teacher source book and a student laboratory book. It was developed at the University of Illinois at Chicago and was piloted with many Chicago-area teachers. It is...

Mathematical Reasoning Through Verbal Analysis, Book 2.
September 1, 1993... Mathematical Reasoning through Verbal Analysis presents a sequential approach to developing mathematical-thinking skills, concepts, and applications for intermediate through middle school students. The mathematical reasoning program consists of...

Teacher's Manual.
September 1, 1993... Mathematical Reasoning through Verbal Analysis presents a sequential approach to developing mathematical-thinking skills, concepts, and applications for intermediate through middle school students. The mathematical reasoning program consists of...

The Mathematical Toolbox, Grades 1-8.
September 1, 1993... The Mathematical Toolbox is a collection of thirty-five sets of mathematical challenges that are arranged thematically and sequentially for grades 1-8. The challenges are divided into four parts: Manipulative Material, Process/Format,...

Mathematics: Teaching for Understanding, Grades K-6, parts 1-3.
September 1, 1993... This series of three videotapes from Marilyn Burns lets teachers view elementary school classrooms where the instructional practices recommended by the NCTM are implemented. Part 1 presents teacher-directed class lessons. In Part 2, students...

Math Warm-Ups for intermediate Grades.
September 1, 1993... Warm-Ups for Intermediate Grades contains seventy warm-up lessons. Each lesson includes a set of five problems and an enrichment problem called Challenge. The problems focus on skill maintenance, concept development, mental computation and...

Tic-Tac-Toe Math.
September 1, 1993... Each page in this book, designed for grades 5-8, contains nine problems in a tic-tac-toe format. Most of the problems focus on a common concept, such as a decimal computation, metric or standard measurements, percent operations, mathematics...

Using Base-Ten Blocks.
September 1, 1993... The activities in Using Base-Ten Blocks help to develop basic skills and concepts. This book consists of five sections, each containing specific instructions for implementation and sprinkled with interesting bits of rationale. Place value...

Bryan numbers. (Letter to the Editor)
September 1, 1993... Here is an enrichment activity that Presents an opportunity to work with students on identifying and describing patterns, as recommended by the NCTM's Curriculum and Evaluation Standards (1989). It can be used at the end of a lesson to fill in...

Tides of change: teachers at the helm.
September 1, 1993... Ten years ago, critics of our education system produced A Nation at Risk. Many charged that too little was being done to educate our youth. Standards were too low, and students were not prepared to embrace the challenges and opportunities of...

Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics, Addenda Series, Grades K-6, Fourth-Grade Book.
September 1, 1993... These books are part of the Addenda Series, which was designed to "interpret and evaluate the NCTM's Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (1989). (It is composed of seven books spanning kindergarten to sixth grade.) Each...

Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics. Addenda Series, Grades K-6, Fifth-Grade Book.
September 1, 1993... These books are part of the Addenda Series, which was designed to "interpret and evaluate the NCTM's Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (1989). (It is composed of seven books spanning kindergarten to sixth grade.) Each...