PATTERN BLOCK DESIGNS: RELATIONSHIP THINKING

20 tasks for building congruent pattern block designs for whole number values and 20 tasks for building congruent pattern block designs for common fractions; ideal for centers for independent task time

PICTURE I HAVE

50 activities with pictures for counting, more than/less than, money, time, sequences, including counting by ones, twos, fives, and tens; ideal for mental math and/or centers for independent task time

PLACE VALUE & NUMBER SENSE-- BUILD A NUMBER

80 activities for building either 3, 4, 5, or 6-digit numbers from given clues; extensions for using the designated digits to build the largest number, the smallest number, and the number closest to...

PLACE VALUE ALONE & TOGETHER

50 activities for an individual, and 50 activities to be done cooperatively with a partner to build 3-digit or 4-digit numbers which meet the specified criteria; ideal for starters or centers for independent task time

POSITIVE MATH AT HOME & SCHOOL, BOOK 1

practical ideas for drilling math with triangular flash cards for addition/subtraction, multiplication/division, etc., plus math ideas with playing cards and dominoes; ideal for home schoolers

POSITIVE MATH AT HOME & SCHOOL, BOOK II

practical ideas for math activities with dice, tic-tac-toe, logic and mathematical scavenger hunts; ideal for home schoolers

PRIMARILY SPEAKING . . . WHO HAS . . . ?

numerous response cards with dots, dominoes, shapes, and coins for participatory "Who has?" plus traditional "I have . . .who has?" sheets to be cut into strips and verbalized in order; ideal for mental math and/or centers for independent task time

PRIMARY STARTERS & STUMPERS

80 estimation activities and 80 problems for daily challenges; ideal for starters and stumpers

PRIMARY TODAY IS THE DAY FOR NUMBERS

number facts for each day of a traditional school year calendar plus picture ways to show each date with all possible combinations of United States coins; ideal for beginning each day of the school year

PROBLEMS PER PRIMARY PUPILS

36 pages (180 word problems to use daily) focusing on word problem attack skills such as recognizing operating, drawing a picture, determining if there is missing/extraneous information, estimating plus 36 pages (180 problems to use daily as the challenge problem of the day)

PROPER PLACEMENT: LOGICAL THINKING

60 reasoning tasks in linear and matrix format using props involving house numbers, letters of the alphabet, and names; ideal for centers for independent task time

PROVE IT!: THE "DOING" OF MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS

50 performance tasks for elementary mathematical concepts such as the commutative property in addition, the understanding of an equation as a balance, and equivalent multiplication expressions; ideal for assessment

REASON TOGETHER: COMPARE, ESTIMATE & REFINE

36 cooperative activities which focus on doing the problem 4 times with an emphasis on estimation, following number sense clues, computation, and mental math; connections with social studies and science ideas; ideal for cooperative math

SCAVENGER HUNTS FOR MATH

30 activities for matching 12 answer strips to the 12 provided problems; various levels of tasks include telling time, computation, estimation, reasonableness, algebra

SCAVENGER HUNTS FOR PRIMARY THINKERS

30 activities for matching 12 answer strips to the 12 provided problems; various levels of tasks include after, before, more/less than, between, addition and subtraction facts, money, time, place value, word problems

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SEE THE C'S: CLOCKS, CARDS, CALENDARS, COINS, CALCULATIONS & CONUNDRUMS

180 problem solving situations related to objects in our real world such as the calendar, the clock, coins, and cards; probability, experimentation, and logial thinking endeavors; ideal for stumper problems

SEEING AND SHOWING

50 activities for estimation and counting using magnetic disks, tangrams, buttons, pattern blocks and attribute blocks; ideal for starters

SHAPES & LOGIC: YOUNG GEOMETRY

activities where students follow clues to find the placement of a triangle, a square, a rhombus, a trapezoid, and a hexagon for covering a given area with minimum, maximum, and specfic number of blocks and colors; ideal for starters and centers for independent task time

SHOW ME & STUMP ME

starting activities where students show their thinking with number tiles 0 through 9, and 5 types of stumper problems to do each day of the week for the entire school year; ideal for starters and stumpers

SKILLBOARD MATH

24 different skillboards and 72 pages of "scripts" for finding appropriate numbers and discovering the extra tile; two students each with 0 through 9 tiles work on basic skills and vocabulary such as before, after, between, more than, less than, addition, subtraction, place value, money, and time; ideal for starters