Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. Math by all means. This volume allows students to explore geometric ideas through a variety of problem solving experiences. The authors believe that children should be actively engaged in constructing their own understanding rather than passively receiving rules and procedures. To that end, lessons are designed to engage children in working with manipulative materials, interacting with other students, and explaining their thinking orally, in writing, and with pictures.
Writing is incorporated as an integral part of childrens mathematics learning.
The whole class lessons are designed to provide a common set of introductory experiences on which children can build their understanding of the unit topic. Menu activities allow children to work independent of the teacher in groups, pairs, or individually. These activities do not build on each other, but rather pose problems, set up situations, and ask questions that help children interact with the unit topic. Woven through each unit are descriptions of what happened when the material was taught to an actual class at the appropriate grade level. These vignettes provide a view of how the lessons were organized, how children reacted, and how a teacher responded in one classroom, but are not intended as a standard of what should happen.