Collection of Math Lessons, A: Grades 3-6

by Marilyn Burns

This wonderful resource is filled with practical, classroom-tested ideas for teaching mathematics with a problem-solving approach. All lessons encourage children to work cooperatively; explain their ideas; listen and question one another; and agree on solutions. Classroom vignettes describe lessons in vivid detail, and samples of actual student work are included throughout. Most lessons implement the use of manipulative materials to help children think about and reflect on mathematical ideas. Lessons in this book explore estimation, word problems, multiplication, fractions, patterns, statistics, probability, geometry, and measurement.

186 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Marilyn Meinhardt Burns is a mathematics educator and the author of over a dozen children's books on mathematics.

Reviews

[Emily Howard]

This book was a great first exposure to Marilyn Burns, and was full of great ideas. It only has a handful of lessons-- it's no curriculum --but it really engaged me with her ideas and made me think a great deal about how I teach.