Best Selling Books by Marilyn Burns

Grades 5-6: In this book, Marilyn Burns tackles the topic of how to teach students to multiply and divide fractions -- and understand what they are doing. Through the lessons in this book, students build conceptual understanding of multiplying and dividing fractions as they develop proficiency. And teachers report that -- for the first time -- students really understand the underlying rationale for how we multiply and divide fractions and mixed numbers. - Publisher.

Lessons and activities show how multiplication relates to repeated addition and geometry.

Presents a five-week unit of instruction for helping children construct their own understanding of our number system by learning about place value through grouping, counting, measuring, and graphing.

Support mathematical understanding in your instructional program through this rich collection of easy-to-use teaching resources. Each book focuses on a specific arithmetic topic and offers a series of classroom-tested lessons addressing the three important aspects of arithmetic instruction--computation, number sense, and problem solving. The lessons include step-by-step directions, amount of time needed, materials required, classroom vignettes, samples of student work, reproducibles, and a discussion of the math underlying the lesson.

A young boy uses different kinds of charts and graphs to present information about his life. Includes related activities.

Liz the Whiz and her younger brother use codes, a chart, and a map of the backyard that matches a clock face to solve Zack''s mystery. Includes a section with related activities.

Lizzy wants to be helpful and so jumps into action by preparing things for her cousin''s party, yet nearly everything she did had good meaning but the wrong results, in a funny easy reader with colorful illustrations. Original.

The ants are stealing all the goodies in this Level 4 Scholastic Math Reader! Written in the style of the cumulative poem "This Is the House That Jack Built," this story is a delightful look at doubling, as ants steal food from a family picnic. Soon, all the food has gone down the ant hole!

This set of grade 5 math resources covers multiplication and division word problems; perimeter and area; addition and subtraction of whole numbers and decimals; circles, polygons, and angles; addition and subtraction with fractions; volume, capacity, and weight; multiplication and division with whole numbers and decimals; algebra, functions, and graphs; multiplication and division with fractions; patterns and transformations; ratio, proportion, and percent; three-dimensional figures.

Jessica worries about collecting 100 objects to take to class for the 100th day of school.

Describes when, why, and how people started to measure time and discusses such topics as time zones, biorhythms, and jet lag. Also includes instructions for a variety of related projects.