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Contexts for Learning Mathematics: Minilessons for Operations with Fractions, Decimals, and Percents (Gr. 5-6)
Minilessons for Operations with Fractions, Decimals, and Percents is a resource of approximately 75 minilessons that you can choose from throughout the year. In contrast to investigations, which constitute the heart of the math workshop, the minilesson...
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Contexts for Learning Mathematics: Muffles Truffles: Multiplication and Division with the Array (Gr. 3-5)
A chocolatier's efforts to cope with the operational challenges of running a truffle shop (counting, pricing, and labeling assorted boxes of chocolates) in Muffles' Truffles introduces students to the open array as a model for multiplication and division...
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Contexts for Learning Mathematics: Organizing and Collecting: The Number System (Gr. K-3)
In Organizing and Collecting the hopelessly disorganized Masloppy family's efforts to keep track of their things create a context for investigating place value patterns and efficient ways to count with five- and ten-structures. As the unit progresses,...
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Contexts for Learning Mathematics: Poster Pack (Grades 4-6)
The contexts for the five units in Investigating Fractions, Decimals, and Percents (Grades 4-6) are established through 16 vibrant posters (15" x 24") that meld humor, intrigue, and good math sense.
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Contexts for Learning Mathematics: The Big Dinner: Multiplication with the Ratio Table (Gr. 3-5)
In The Big Dinner, the context of preparing a turkey dinner highlights students' early multiplication strategies, and supports automatizing the facts, using the ratio table, and developing the distributive property with large numbers. Strings of related...
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Contexts for Learning Mathematics: The Box Factory: Extending Multiplication with the Array (Gr. 3-5)
The focus of The Box Factory is the deepening and extending of students' understanding of multiplication, specifically the associative and commutative properties and their use with computation, systematic factoring, and the extension of students'...
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Contexts for Learning Mathematics: The Double-Decker Bus: Early Addition and Subtraction (Gr. K-3)
The Double-Decker Bus, the story of a little girl's efforts to count the passengers on fast-moving double-decker buses, introduces students to the benefits of using the five-structure to quickly calculate quantities. The arithmetic rack, whose beads...
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Contexts for Learning Mathematics: The T-Shirt Factory: Place Value, Addition, and Subtraction (Gr. K-3)
Students revisit the Masloppy family in The T-Shirt Factory as Grandma Masloppy launches a lucrative T-shirt business. This context and follow-up simulations highlight place value, regrouping, equivalence, and systematic exchange. As the unit progresses,...
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Counting Flash Cards: Numbers 0—20
Help Children Learn and Count Numbers 0 to 20 with Colorful, Engaging Flashcards! Brought to you by Teacher Created Materials, supporting learning in and out of the classroom for over 45 years! These Counting Flash Cards are a fun way for preschoolers,...
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Division A Teacher Bookcase
The Division A module focuses on basic concepts. It builds upon the idea that division is inverse to multiplication and provides computational methods for solving division problems, using contextual and concrete methods to support the two meanings of...
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Division A WorkSpace (8-pack)
Components: 8 Student WorkSpace Books: Division A