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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. 4, No. 2, October
Assessment through Incredible Equations
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Take out your base ten-materials; our number today is eighty-eight. Build that amount, then tell me some of your mathematical thoughts in a sentence to describe what you have in front of you." Or the teacher might have said on another day, "Using your...
A Student's Imaging in Solving a Nonroutine Task
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Imagery is increasingly being recognized as important in children's sense-making activity in mathematics (Brown and Wheatley 1989, Reynolds and Wheatley 1992), yet Wheatley (1991, 34) indicates, "Although a few teachers may supplement mathematics instruction...
Calculating the Culture of the Baltic States
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The Math by the Month activities are designed to appeal directly to students. Students may work on the activities individually, in pairs, or in small groups. No solutions are suggested or provided for activities so that students will look for the mathematical...
Connecting Instructional Practice to Student Thinking
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Over the last fifteen years, much research has investigated children's learning of mathematics. This research indicates that when permitted, children frequently devise approaches to solve problems that are distinct from those typically used by adults....
Double That Dough
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The goal of the "Problem Solvers" department is to foster improved communication among teachers by proposing one problem each month for K-6 teachers to try with their students. It is hoped that every teacher can become an author by reflecting on students'...
Exploring Area with Geoboards
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This story involves two teachers: Christina Hartman, a second-grade teacher at Cedar Heights Elementary School in Cedar Falls, Iowa; and Patricia Trafton, who was a graduate student at the University of Iowa, working on a master's degree in mathematics...
Hands-On Addition and Subtraction with the Three Pigs
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Addition and subtraction with regrouping and across zeros can be difficult concepts for second and third graders. Although the traditional algorithms are not the only successful processes that students may use, they are commonly used in mathematics textbooks...
Investigating Probability and Patterns with 'The Thirteen Days of Halloween.'
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It was week 2 of a probability unit in my 3-4 multigrade class. My students had experienced several activities that involved making predictions based on sampling with replacement, but for most students, their understanding was fragile. The Thirteen Days...
Our Heritage: Learning Data-Management Skills Meaningfully
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During January, the local Heritage Association was planning and promoting various projects to celebrate Heritage Day in February. Mrs. Nickerson's fifth-grade classroom was beginning a unit on data management, to be assisted by Ms. Pothier, a university...
Recognizing the Mathematics
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The mathematics that young children explore or to which they are exposed depends on what is important in their everyday lives. One year when teaching nursery school, I found that groups of children on the playground were counting back from ten to zero...
