New Releases by Marilyn Burns

For many years, Marilyn Burns has produced a newsletter for teachers. Each newsletter contains classroom-tested activities from teachers across the country. This compilation presents the newsletters'' best problem-solving lessons for grades 1-6. The lessons span the strands of the math curriculum and are illustrated with children''s work.

Writing in Math Class presents a clear and persuasive case for making writing a part of math instruction. Author and master teacher Marilyn Burns explains why students should write in math class, describes five different types of writing assignments for math, and offer tips and suggestions for teachers. In her usual engaging style, Marilyn Burns tells what happened in actual classrooms when writing was incorporated into math lessons. Illustrated throughout with student work. With a foreword by Susan Ohanian.

Offers inspiring, practical, classroom-tested ideas for helping students learn mathematics through problem solving.

Each letter of the alphabet is assigned a value (a=$0.01, b=$0.02, up to z=$0.26). Then add the values of each letter to find the $1 word.

This book is for non-believers of all ages. It was written especially for children who have been convinced by the attitudes of adults that mathematics is (1) impossible (2) only for bright kids (3) no fun at all anyway. This book says that maths is nothing more than a way of looking at the world and that it can be relevant to everyday life (Street maths) and fun (How many sides does a banana have?). Hundreds of mathematical events, jokes, riddles, puzzles, investigations and experiments prove it!

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.

Many facets of childhood are discussed, including children's legal status and institutions that affect them.

Brain-teasers, riddles, and projects help the young reader discover new ways of thinking about problems of logic and communication