Timely ideas and information, with daily updates. Frequently Asked Questions Thousands of web sites for educators and students. Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. This book, for second and third grade teachers, is one of a series of math based, hands-on thematic units.
Children apply math concepts and skills to home and school situations.
The units include teacher resource pages, student forms for recording information, activity sheets, and patterns. In this unit, children use information about themselves, their friends, and their world to explore math concepts in fun and challenging ways. For example, students measure their body parts and conduct surveys to find others of the same dimensions, they collect data on classmates' birth information and display it in a table, and they investigate the frequency of various body features. The unit emphasizes collecting and recording information and communicating results. Permission is hereby granted to the individual purchaser to reproduce student materials in this book for non-commercial individual or classroom use only.