Marilyn Burns

Deals with various aspects of childhood including family, school, money, legal rights, TV and movies, body language, and generally, how to make the most of childhood right now.

The concept of angles and shapes takes on a fun twist when a triangle decides he wants to add more angles to his shape and eventually realizes that his desire to be something else can have unexpected results.

When Mrs. Comfort's guests rearrange all of her carefully placed tables and chairs, dinnertime at the family reunion becomes a complete mess, in a playful introduction to the concepts of area and perimeter.

This comprehensive and popular resource addresses the toughest issues teachers face in mathematics teaching. It demonstrates how to replace traditional math teaching with strategies that focus on students' thinking and reasoning and presents the case for teaching mathematics through problem solving. Contains more than 240 classroom-tested problem-solving activities. Valuable as a course book for in-service workshops. 360 pages.

Text, illustrations, and suggested activities offer a common-sense approach to mathematic fundamentals for those who are slightly terrified of numbers.

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!

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

Challenging negative attitudes and delivering a positive message about what math can and should mean to all of us, this resource is both an entertaining and invaluable read. From “Talking Turkey About Arithmetic” to “Making Math Make Sense,” the 13 chapters help everyone conquer their fear of math.

How can writing help students think more deeply and clearly about mathematical ideas? Marilyn Burns shares numerous examples illustrating how students sort, clarify, and define their thinking through different types of writing—journal writing, solving math problems, explaining mathematical ideas, and linking creative writing to math. Includes assessment strategies, answers to frequently asked questions, and samples of authentic student work.

Compiling Marilyn Burns’s most trusted lessons from the all-time favorite Math Solutions Newsletter, this resource is a popular starting point for any teacher introducing a problem-solving approach to teaching mathematics. Each lesson is aligned with content strands, features a vignette of how it actually unfolded in a classroom, and includes samples of authentic student work.

Fourteen lessons explore estimation, word problems, multiplication, fractions, patterns, statistics, probability, geometry, and measurement. This book presents a lively, readable classroom vignette that describes Marilyn Burns's unique and inspiring approach to teaching problem-solving lessons.

The role of a math coach is demanding and often undefined. In this edited collection, veteran math coaches share their expertise, providing glimpses into the unique trials, false starts, and successes they have faced in their positions. The authors ask and answer such questions as What makes an effective math coach? and What pitfalls do math coaches encounter and what can they do about them?

As two children take a walk with their grandfather, they use their counting skills to help answer a series of animal riddles

Support mathematical understanding in your instructional program through this rich collection of easy-to-use teaching resources. Each book focuses on a specific arithmetic topic and offers a series of classroom-tested lessons addressing the three important aspects of arithmetic instruction—computation, number sense, and problem solving. The lessons include step-by-step directions, amount of time needed, materials required, classroom vignettes, samples of student work, reproducibles, and a discussion of the math underlying the lesson.

Offering practical, quick-reference advice guaranteed to give all teachers support and direction for improving their mathematics teaching, these unique resources address common concerns about the K–8 math curriculum using a lively Q-and-A format. The over 100 questions and answers in each book provide helpful ideas for leading class discussions, incorporating writing into math class, dealing with homework issues, communicating with parents, and more.

Students learn about place value through explorations with grouping, counting, measuring, and graphing. Includes activities from strands of statistics, geometry, and logical reasoning.

Considers ways to explore and think about time, suggesting activities to do alone or with a friend, and provides information on biorhythms, different kinds of clocks, and time changes in the jet age

Which day of the week is a $1.00 word? And which U.S. coin is a $1.00 word, even though it’s not really worth a dollar? Find out the answers to these and dozens more riddles in this unique and delightfully illustrated book. Each riddle calls for searching for words, practicing addition, and thinking mathematically. Featured in Math and Literature, Grades 4–6.

This book presents 10 complete lessons for primary students based on children's books, plus ideas for using 21 additional books. The children's books Two Ways to Count to Ten, 17 Kings and 42 Elephants, and How Big Is a Foot?

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 provide experiences with sorting, number, graphing, geometry, measurement, logical reasoning, probability, and functions.

From Quack and Count to Harry Potter, the imaginative ideas in children’s books come to life in math lessons through this unique series. Each resource provides more than 20 classroom-tested lessons that engage children in mathematical problem solving and reasoning. Each lesson features an overview, materials required, and a vignette of how the lesson actually unfolded in a classroom. This book includes a reference chart indicating the mathematical concept each lesson covers, such as number, geometry, patterns, algebra, measurement, data analysis, or probability. Topics include counting, sorting, addition, subtraction, money, measurement, and patterns.

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. Part I in this book includes six lessons that integrate ideas from different strands of the math curriculum, including algebra, measurement, probability, statistics, and logical reasoning. Part II provides two sample replacement units with a two- to three-week study focus, one on the area of a circle and the other on percents.

Support mathematical understanding in your instructional program through this rich collection of easy-to-use teaching resources. Each book focuses on a specific arithmetic topic and offers a series of classroom-tested lessons addressing the three important aspects of arithmetic instruction--computation, number sense, and problem solving. The lessons include step-by-step directions, amount of time needed, materials required, classroom vignettes, samples of student work, reproducibles, and a discussion of the math underlying the lesson.

Support mathematical understanding in your instructional program through this rich collection of easy-to-use teaching resources. Each book focuses on a specific arithmetic topic and offers a series of classroom-tested lessons addressing the three important aspects of arithmetic instruction—computation, number sense, and problem solving. The lessons include step-by-step directions, amount of time needed, materials required, classroom vignettes, samples of student work, reproducibles, and a discussion of the math underlying the lesson.

Support mathematical understanding in your instructional program through this rich collection of easy-to-use teaching resources. Each book focuses on a specific arithmetic topic and offers a series of classroom-tested lessons addressing the three important aspects of arithmetic instruction--computation, number sense, and problem solving. The lessons include step-by-step directions, amount of time needed, materials required, classroom vignettes, samples of student work, reproducibles, and a discussion of the math underlying the lesson.

Challenging games, experiments, and investigations provide the context for students to gather sample data, predict outcomes, and then test their predictions. Students soon discover that they can assess the likelihood of an event actually occurring.

Students develop understanding of multiplication from a variety of problem-solving perspectives-geometrical, numerical, and practical situations. Includes activities from strands of probability, statistics, patterns and functions, and geometry.

Hanukkah is an exciting holiday, filled with special foods, songs, games, and the giving and receiving of gifts. It is also a time when people come together to retell the story of Hanukkah. THE HANUKKAH BOOK is filled with fascinating facts, time-honored traditions, and interesting

Support mathematical understanding in your instructional program through this rich collection of easy-to-use teaching resources. Each book focuses on a specific arithmetic topic and offers a series of classroom-tested lessons addressing the three important aspects of arithmetic instruction—computation, number sense, and problem solving. The lessons include step-by-step directions, amount of time needed, materials required, classroom vignettes, samples of student work, reproducibles, and a discussion of the math underlying the lesson.

This nostalgic classic from world-renowned educator, Marilyn Burns, is overflowing with clever, yet simple, activities for kids -- preschool to adult! Many of us who grew up or had children in the 70s and 80s remember this great book fondly, and miss all the creative fun it brought to us and our families. The book presents more than 200 clear and simple activities, how to analyze your handwriting, how to take your own fingerprints, making sun mittens, make your own monogram, the pin prick code, how to make paper fly, make a windmill, put on your own neighborhood paper airplane olympics, how to make an egg from a chicken, how to make a wet microscope, how to make water go up hill, how to make your own pair of moccasins, how to write a secret message, testing your ESP, making a troll, the difference between music and noise, and feeling sound. You and the children in your life will also get a great kick from the comic little pigs that run through the book, holding up signs with letters to spell out words (see front cover for an example). The pigs are always up to some playful mischief, and sometimes have trouble arranging their letters into actual words. The fun of looking over all the piggies' efforts, hunting for their quirks and jokes, adds a whole extra layer of mystery and fun to the pages of this memory-making book.