| Description |
1 online resource (111 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Using Children's Literature to Teach Problem Solving in Math; Types of Problem Solvers; Creating a Problem-Solving Community; 1 Make Sense and Persevere; Early Problem Solvers; Seven Blind Mice-Decomposing Numbers; Developing Problem Solvers; MATH-Terpieces: The Art of Problem Solving-Using 2 and Addends to Find a Sum; Advanced Problem Solvers; Splash!-Representing Addition and Subtraction Problems; 2 Reason Abstractly; Early Problem Solvers |
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Ten Flashing Fireflies-Exploring the Commutative Property of AdditionRooster's Off to See the World-Exploring the Associative Property of Addition; Developing Problem Solvers; Each Orange Had 8 Slices-Demonstrating Fluency for Addition; Advanced Problem Solvers; How Many Mice?-Representing and Solving Problems With Addition and Subtraction; 3 Construct Arguments; Early Problem Solvers; How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?-Skip-Counting and Comparing Three-Digit Numbers; Developing Problem Solvers; Mall Mania-Adding Two-Digit Numbers Using Various Strategies; Advanced Problem Solvers |
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Spaghetti and Meatballs for All!-Creating Composite Shapes4 Create a Model; Early Problem Solvers; The Doorbell Rang-Representing Addition in Various Ways; Developing Problem Solvers; Bigger, Better, Best!-Using Addition With Rectangular Arrays; Advanced Problem Solvers; Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday-Solving Word Problems With Money; 5 Use Mathematical Tools; Early Problem Solvers; Earth Day-Hooray!-Using Place Value to Add and Subtract; Developing Problem Solvers; Mummy Math-Recognizing Attributes of 3D Objects; Advanced Problem Solvers |
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Measuring Penny-Measuring in Standard and Nonstandard Units6 Attend to Precision; Early Problem Solvers; If You Were a Quadrilateral-Identifying Quadrilaterals; Developing Problem Solvers; Lemonade for Sale-Representing and Interpreting Data; Advanced Problem Solvers; Measuring Penny-Relating Addition and Subtraction to Length; 7 Look for Structure; Early Problem Solvers; The Button Box-Identifying Attributes for Sorting; Developing Problem Solvers; Patterns in Peru-Describing Relative Positions; Advanced Problem Solvers; The Greedy Triangle-Exploring Attributes of Shapes |
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8 Apply Repeated ReasoningEarly Problem Solvers; Bunches of Buttons: Counting by Tens-Counting to 100 by Tens; Developing Problem Solvers; How Big is a Foot?-Iterating Length Units; Advanced Problem Solvers; The King's Commissioners-Representing Tens and Ones; Next Steps; Appendix: Common Addition and Subtraction Situations; References |
| Summary |
Learn how to use children's literature to engage students in mathematical problem solving. Teaching with children's literature helps build a positive math environment, encourages students to think abstractly, shows students the real-world purposes of math, builds content-area literacy, and appeals to students with different learning styles and preferences. This practical book provides specific children's book ideas and standards-based lessons that you can use to bring math alive in your own classroom. Special Features:Step-by-step ideas for using children's literature t |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317909224 |
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1317909224 |
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9781317909231 |
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1317909232 |
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