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Tables of Contents for Mathematics Activities for Elementary School Teachers
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
An Introduction to Problem Solving
1
26
Pictorial Patterns
2
1
Number Patterns
3
2
What's the Rule?
5
1
Polygons and Diagonals
6
2
Paper Powers
8
1
The King's Problem
9
1
When You Don't Know What To Do
10
2
An Ancient Game
12
1
Ten People in a Canoe
13
3
Missing Person Reports
16
1
Who Dunit?
17
1
What's the Number?
18
1
Eliminate the Impossible
19
2
Candies, Couples, and a Quiz
21
1
Magic Number Tricks
22
2
What's the Last Card?
24
3
Sets, Whole Numbers, and Functions
27
17
Attribute Elimination
28
1
Sort and Classify
29
1
Attribute Matrix
30
2
Difference Puzzles
32
1
What's in the Loop?
33
1
Loop de Loops
33
1
What's in the Loops?
34
1
Odd and Even Patterns
35
Multiplication Arrays
3
35
Find the Missing Factor
38
2
How Many Cookies?
40
1
What's My Function?
41
3
Whole Number Computation
44
20
A Visit to Fouria
45
3
Regrouping Numbers
48
2
Find the Missing Numbers
50
1
It All Adds Up
51
1
What's the Difference?
52
2
Multi-digit Multiplication
54
1
Multi-digit Division
55
2
Division Array
57
2
Target Number
59
2
Least and Greatest
61
3
Integers and Number Theory
64
31
Charged Particles
66
2
Coin Counters
68
2
Addition Patterns
70
1
Subtracting Integers
71
2
Subtraction Patterns
73
1
A Clown on a Tightrope
74
2
Multiplication and Division Patterns
76
1
A Square Experiment
77
3
A Sieve of Another Sort
80
3
The Factor Game
83
4
How Many Factors?
87
1
Interesting Numbers
88
2
Tiling With Squares
90
2
Pool Factors
92
3
Rational Numbers as Fractions
95
25
What Is a Fraction?
96
2
Equivalent Fractions
98
2
How Big Is It?
100
1
Fraction War
101
1
What Comes First?
102
1
Square Fractions
103
3
Adding and Subtracting Fractions
106
3
Multiplying Fractions
109
3
Dividing Fractions
112
2
People Proportions
114
3
A Call to the Border
117
3
Decimals, Percents, and Real Numbers
120
17
What's My Name?
122
2
Who's First?
124
1
Race for the Flat
125
1
Empty the Board
126
1
Decimal Arrays
127
2
Decimal Multiplication
129
1
Target Number Revisited
130
1
What Is Percent?
131
2
What Does It Mean?
133
2
Flex-it
135
2
Probability
137
25
What Are the Chances?
138
1
The Spinner Game
139
2
Numbers That Predict
141
3
It's in the Bag
144
1
Paper-Scissors-Rock
145
3
What's the Distribution?
148
2
Pascal's Probabilities
150
2
Simulate It
152
2
The Mystery Cube
154
2
How Many Arrangements?
156
6
Statistics: An Introduction
162
28
Graphing m&m's®
163
4
What's in the Bag?
167
1
Gaps and Clusters
168
1
Grouped Data
169
2
What's the Average?
171
3
Finger-Snapping Time
174
4
The Weather Report
178
4
Are Women Catching Up?
182
4
To Change or Not to Change
186
4
Introductory Geometry
190
23
What's the Angle?
192
2
Inside or Outside?
194
3
Triangle Properties---Angles
197
2
Angles on Pattern Blocks
199
2
Sum of Interior/Exterior Angles
201
2
Name That Polygon
203
1
Spatial Visualization
204
3
A View from the Top
207
2
Map Coloring
209
4
Constructions, Congruence, and Similarity
213
27
Triangle Properties---Sides
214
2
To Be or Not to Be Congruent?
216
3
Paper Folding Construction
219
3
Pattern Block Similarity
222
2
Similar Triangles
224
1
Outdoor Geometry
225
3
Side Splitter Theorem
228
2
Mysterious Midpoints
230
2
Rectangles and Curves
232
8
Concepts of Measurement
240
33
Units of Measure
241
1
Regular Polygons in a Row
242
4
What's My Area?
246
3
Areas of Polygons
249
1
Pick's Theorem
250
2
From Rectangles to Parallelograms
252
1
From Parallelograms to Triangles
253
1
From Parallelograms to Trapezoids
254
1
Pythagorean Puzzles
255
1
Right or Not?
256
2
Now You See It, Now You Don't
258
2
Surface Area
260
3
Volume of a Rectangular Solid
263
2
Pyramids and Cones
265
5
Compare Volume to Surface Area
270
3
Motion Geometry and Tessellations
273
1
Slides, Flips, and Turns
274
3
How Did You Do It?
277
2
Double Flips
279
2
Reflections
281
4
Translations
285
2
Transforgeo
287
2
Rotations
289
2
Glide Reflections
291
2
Size Transformations
293
3
Coordinate Transformations
296
2
Cut It Out
298
3
Draw It
301
1
Tessellations
302
Appendix
A-1