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Boote, Stacy K. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2016
Students' success with fourth-grade content standards builds on mathematical knowledge learned in third grade and creates a conceptual foundation for division standards in subsequent grades that focus on the division algorithm. The division standards in fourth and fifth grade are similar; but in fourth grade, division problem divisors are only one…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 4, Grade 5
Currier, Sarah Cox – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2015
In this article, Sarah Currier, a math specialist at Elizabeth Hall International School in Minnesota, describes how she used origami in a deliberate manner to teach content. She shares how she uses paper folding to teach mathematical concepts, reinforce vocabulary, and as a problem-solving model. She also offers ideas for using origami in other…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Manipulative Materials, Teaching Methods, Mathematical Concepts
Isler, Isil; Marum, Tim; Stephens, Ana; Blanton, Maria; Knuth, Eric; Gardiner, Angela Murphy – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2014
The study of functions has traditionally received the most attention at the secondary level, both in curricula and in standards documents--for example, the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSI 2010) and "Principles and Standards for School Mathematics" (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics [NCTM] 2000). However, the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Algebra, Mathematical Concepts, Elementary School Mathematics
Cavey, Laurie O.; Kinzel, Margaret T. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2014
Teachers report that engaging students in solving contextual problems is an important part of supporting student understanding of algorithms for fraction division. Meaning for whole-number operations is a crucial part of making sense of contextual problems involving rational numbers. The authors present a developed instructional sequence to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Secondary School Mathematics, Preservice Teacher Education
Leung, Shuk-kwan S.; Lo, Jane-Jane – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2010
This article features Sweet play math, a "math by the month" activity that involves decorating and making sugar cubes. Teachers may want to substitute straws, paper squares, alphabet blocks, or such commercially made manipulatives as Unifix[R] cubes for the real sweets. Given no allergy concerns, teachers and students alike would enjoy some sweet…
Descriptors: Play, Learning Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Manipulative Materials
Watson, Elaine – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2007
This article tells the story of an elementary school principal, a former high school mathematics teacher, who uses the geoboard in her work with a group of fifth-grade students. As the investigation of polygons progresses from symmetry to area to perimeter, hands-on applications of advanced mathematics topics such as the Pythagorean theorem and…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Grade 5, Mathematics Teachers, Principals
Lucey, Linda Polhemus; Jennings, Sybillyn; Olson, Peter; Rubenfeld, Lester; Holmes, Aliya E. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2007
This article describes how Lego robotics, interactive multimedia, and a simple manipulative--string--can be offered to students through coordinated activities to help them build a conceptual foundation for measuring rate. (Contains 5 figures and 3 tables.)
Descriptors: Measurement, Mathematics Instruction, Multimedia Materials, Robotics