Brook Knoll Elementary (Scotts Valley USD) teachers eager to use Marcy Cook's books after her workshop, Mathematics: The Thinking Sport
| 4 - 6 |
100 COOPERATIVE CHART EXPLORATIONS |
100 activities for double thinking, team coloring, and/or mental math with the hundred chart; ideal for cooperative math experiences; ideal for starters |
$15.00
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| 3 - 8 |
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 |
$15.00
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| K - 2 |
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 |
$15.00
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| 3 - 6 |
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... |
$15.00
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| 2 - 5 |
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 |
$15.00
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| 1 - 5 |
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 |
$15.00
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| 2 - 6 |
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 |
$15.00
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| K - 2 |
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 |
$15.00
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| 2 - 4 |
PRIMARY STARTERS & STUMPERS |
80 estimation activities and 80 problems for daily challenges; ideal for starters and stumpers |
$15.00
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| K - 3 |
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 |
$15.00
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| 1 - 3 |
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) |
$15.00
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| 3 - 6 |
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 |
$15.00
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| 3 - 6 |
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 |
$15.00
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| 4 - 8 |
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 |
$15.00
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| 3 - 8 |
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 |
$15.00
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| 1 - 4 |
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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$10.00
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| 5 - 8 |
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 |
$15.00
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| K - 2 |
SEEING AND SHOWING |
50 activities for estimation and counting using magnetic disks, tangrams, buttons, pattern blocks and attribute blocks; ideal for starters |
$15.00
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| K - 3 |
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 |
$15.00
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| K - 2 |
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 |
$15.00
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MARCY COOK MATH