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Teaching Children Mathematics
Teaching Children Mathematics is a monthly (August through May) journal published and owned by The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics whose headquarters are in Reston, Va. It has been published since 1994. Written for mathematics teachers, Teaching Children Mathematics covers mathematics education through the middle grades. This journal provides educators with teaching techniques for mathematics education and focuses on developments in curriculum, instruction, learning and teacher education. Its region is the United States. The February 2006 issue of Teaching Children Mathematics featured an article titled "How Many Days 'til My Birthday? Helping Students Understand Calendar Connections and Concepts." This article described a new approach to instructing kindergarteners about the representation of time through calendars. The October 2010 issue looked at building word problems by using students' own experiences. The journal's regular departments include "Math by the Month" and "From the Classroom." Pamela Halonen is the Editor and Gretchen Mui and Luanne Flom are Contributing Editors.
Articles from Vol. 8, No. 1, September
Are Rules Interfering with Children's Mathematical Understanding?
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The small group of second- and third-grade students in the learning disabilities resource room chanted, "The ones are first. The ones are first. The ones are first!" "Remember," their teacher said, "when you add numbers together, you start with the...
Bubble-Mania!
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The purpose of the "Investigations" department is to provide mathematically rich and inviting contexts in which children and their teachers solve problems, communicate, and reason. Investigations encourage students to make connections among mathematical...
Developing Mathematical Thinking Using Codes and Ciphers
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Television's Antiques Roadshow has led many Americans to seek hidden treasures at house sales and flea markets. For the teacher, a chance flea-market purchase can lead to exciting classroom activities. Our find, a 1935 Little Orphan Annie code book,...
Make Teaching Children Mathematics Your Journal
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We, the Editorial Panel of Teaching Children Mathematics (TCM), welcome you to volume 8, in which you will find plenty of interesting ideas and classroom examples of ways to make teaching mathematics a wonderful experience for you and your students....
Readers' Exchange
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Using Murals to Help Children Visualize Mathematical Concepts I have often said, "The math mural is to mathematics as pictures are to children's literature." The mathematics murals in my class help those students who learn best by being able to...
Responses to the Nets and Polyhedra Problem
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The problem from the September 2000 issue was stated as follows: The five diagrams in figure 1 are called nets. They are two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional figures called polyhedra. The dotted lines represent folds, and the solid...
Teaching Addition and Subtraction Facts: A Chinese Perspective
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In its Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, the NCTM suggests that fluency with basic addition and subtraction number combinations is a goal in teaching whole-number computation (NCTM 2000, P. 84). A mastery of lower-order skills instills...
Turning the Tables
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In preparing for a new school year, Ms. Howard found 12 triangular tables with sides of equal length in her classroom. She wants to explore all the different possibilities before deciding how to arrange the tables for her students. In considering her...
Using Representations to Explore Perimeter and Area
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In an elementary school classroom, as in real life, the lines between the content areas should be blurred, particularly between mathematical problem solving and mathematical situations contextualized in good literature. For that reason, I always look...
Where Did You Go This Summer?
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Twenty-five Ferndale School District students in a second- and third-grade combination classroom were asked several questions during the mathematics problem-solving lesson in the first week of school: "Where did you go this summer? How far did you...
