Most Popular Books by Marilyn Burns

In this introduction to polygons, a triangle convinces a shapeshifter to make him a quadrilateral and later a pentagon, but discovers that where angles and sides are concerned, more isn''t always better.

Annotation This series helps teachers use the imaginative ideas in children s books for math lessons. Organized into four grade-level collections to respond to teachers specific classroom needs, this series includes favorite lessons based on a wide variety of children s books. Teachers will appreciate these books for the enjoyment and excitement they bring to math instruction. With introductions by Marilyn Burns, these books include vignettes of lessons and samples of student work. These lessons, based on popular children s books, address major mathematical topics such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, geometry, algebraic thinking, number sense, and place value.

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!

A collection of children''s books on the subject of food and nutrition.

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.

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.

"Through these lessons, students begin to understand the rules of divisibility and the connection between multiplication and division. Additionally, students build their understanding of the relationships among dividends, divisors, quotients, and remainders."--pub. desc.

A compendium of more than 240 classroom-tested lessons, this essential resource helps teachers build student understanding and skills and understand how children best learn math. In this third edition, Marilyn Burns has completely revised the first section to reflect what she has learned over the years from her classroom experience with students and her professional development experience with teachers. This section has also been expanded to address these important topics: teaching math vocabulary, incorporating writing into math instruction, linking assessment and instruction, and using children¿s literature to teach key math concepts. In an entirely new section, Marilyn addresses a wide range of questions she has received over the years from elementary and middle school teachers regarding classroom management and instructional issues.

Marilyn Burns and Robyn Silbey offer sensible and practical advice guaranteed to give all teachers support and direction for improving their mathematics teaching. The lively Q-and-A format addresses the concerns that most kindergarten through grade 6 teachers grapple with about teaching mathematics.

"Through a variety of activities, students gain insight into the relationship between division and multiplication and begin to see how division relates to multiple groups of equal size. Students also learn how to recognize the two types of division problems, think about remainders in different ways, and use division to solve real-world problems."--pub. desc.

The Marilyn Burns Fraction Kit, Grades 4–6 is recommended to help implement the lessons in this book."--pub. desc.

This former Math Solutions publication is now published by Heinemann (ISBN: 9780325137551). Visit Heinemann.com/Math to learn more! In this fourth edition of her signature resource, Marilyn presents her current thinking and insights and includes ideas from her most recent teaching experiences. Part 1, "Starting Points," reflects the major overhaul of this book and addresses twenty-three issues important to thinking about teaching mathematics today. Part 2, "Problem-Solving Investigations," opens with how to plan problem-solving lessons; followed by whole-class, small-group, and individual investigations organized into five areas of the curriculum: Measurement, Data, Geometry, Patterns and Algebraic Thinking, and Number and Operations. Part 3, "Teaching Arithmetic," focuses on the cornerstone of elementary mathematics curriculum, offering ideas and assessments that build students'' understanding, confidence, and competence in arithmetic. In Part 4, "Questions Teachers Ask," features Marilyn''s responses to pedagogical questions she''s received from teachers over the years. More than forty reproducibles for About Teaching Mathematics are available to download in a printable format.

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

Lessons, games and activities to increase children''s multiplication skills.

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