Description
With crystal clear instructions, easy-to-use activities and templates, Math Poetry provides an innovative way to teach both math and writing. Students generally have trouble with math word problems. When they write their own word problems in the form of poems, they learn the vocabulary and concepts. You’ll be amazed by their creativity. Students will learn: Math concepts and operations Place value and fractions Geometry and graphs Measurement and money Word problems As well as the elements of poetry in fresh context, including: Similes Metaphors Alliteration Line breaks Poetic language and forms And perhaps best of all, the creative process enhances your students’ recall of the concepts taught.
Cat + mouse = scared mouse! That’s a “mathematickle,” a word game using the conventions of math in a way that’s so surprising, poetic, and delightful that this book of 20 activity ideas won a 2009 Teachers’ Choice Award. Clear instructions, reproducible handouts, and a table matching lessons to math and language arts standards ease the way into activities that both gifted and ELL students will enjoy. Math topics covered include number sense, estimation, measurement, money, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, inverse operations, geometry, algebra, and graphing. Grades 2-5. Bibliography. Illustrated. Good Year Books. 136 pages.
Good Year Books
Education
Elementary, Education
Edition: Teaching Methods & Materials
Keywords: Elementary, Education
