Synopses & Reviews
The Math Excursions Series is a set of clearly organized, thoroughly field-tested units for primary teachers who want an innovative extension of mathematics beyond the pages of a workbook into art, literature, science, and social studies. Each unit is an exciting departure from the main road of systematic math instruction, an opportunity to drop daily math routines and venture into real-world problem solving for a week or more.
There are three books in the series, each specific to the grade it features. Written by three highly experienced classroom teachers, each Math Excursions text includes:
-- five complete units
-- clear and thorough explanations of activities and needed materials
-- practical classroom set-up tips and management techniques
-- scripting to help readers observe teachers and young learners at work
-- instruction that reflects the NCTM Standards
-- attractive artwork and blackline masters for classroom use
Second graders explore and create patchwork quiltblocks of growing complexity, investigate the common properties of quart containers, plan a party for a hundred people, write their own story problems, and build a model village. Math concepts range from geometry, measurement, and sorting to estimation, patterning, and computation.
Synopsis
Second graders explore and create patchwork quiltblocks of growing complexity, investigate the common properties of quart containers, plan a party for a hundred people, write their own story problems, and build a model village.
About the Author
Donna Burk is a first grade teacher in San Jose, California. She also travels extensively throughout the country conducting math workshops for teachers of K-2 children.Allyn Snider is a primary teacher with a masters degree in curriculum and instruction from Portland State University. She is currently teaching second grade at Catlin Gabel School in Portland, Oregon.Paula Symonds is a K-8 math teacher in San Francisco, California. She conducts math workshops for teachers throughout California and Nevada.