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50 Years of ERIC
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Investigations: Zoo Mania.
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Lamphere, Patricia – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1995
Presents mathematics activities that give students in grades three through six practice in writing and problem solving by using the setting of a zoo or animal park. Includes reproducible student worksheets. (MKR)
Descriptors: Animals, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Learning Activities
Investigations: A New Perspective.
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Lamphere, Patricia – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1995
Presents activities focusing on the use of visual perspectivity. Includes reproducible student worksheets. (MKR)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Geometry, Learning Activities
Investigations: How Does It Look?
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Lamphere, Patricia – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1994
Presents activities using three-dimensional geometry to develop spatial skills. Includes reproducible student worksheets. (MKR)
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Geometric Concepts, Geometry, Learning Activities
Investigations: Geoboard Patterns and Figures.
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Lamphere, Patricia – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1995
Presents activities which use patterns on geoboards or dot paper to develop geometry and measurement concepts. Includes reproducible student worksheets. (MKR)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Geometric Concepts, Learning Activities
Investigations: Math Makes the News.
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Lamphere, Patricia – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1995
Explores ways to share mathematics both in and out of school and uses the newspaper as a vehicle for communicating ideas about mathematics. Includes reproducible student worksheets. (MKR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Investigations: Fair or Unfair--That Is the Question!
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Lamphere, Patricia – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1995
Presents mathematics activities for grades three through six that focus on concepts of probability and fairness. Includes reproducible student worksheets. (MKR)
Descriptors: Educational Games, Elementary School Mathematics, Intermediate Grades, Learning Activities
Investigations: Classroom Data.
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Lamphere, Patricia – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1994
Presents activities using the theme of collecting and interpreting data from the students' own classroom. Stresses communication among students and between students and the teacher. Includes reproducible student worksheets. (MKR)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Investigations: Outfitting Mathematics.
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Lamphere, Patricia – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1994
Presents activities using interpretation of visual clues and making decisions on the basis of those clues. Students in grades 2-4 use pictures of Native American tribal clothing. Students in grades 5 and 6 can practice determining scale and proportion as they make scale drawings. Includes reproducible student worksheets. (MKR)
Descriptors: Clothing, Elementary School Mathematics, Learning Activities, Mathematics Education