Fourth grade Everyday Mathematics teacher's resource package ENC#: ENC-012102 Series: Everyday Mathematics. Publisher: Everyday Learning Corporation Date: 1999

In this resource package, teachers will find mathematics lessons that emphasize discussion, problem solving for everyday situations, and discovery with hands-on experiences. Topics include solving number sentences, organizing data, and developing an intuitive sense about three-dimensional objects. The reform-based series from the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project is a complete K-6 mathematics curriculum program. Using a spiral approach, the series develops the following seven content strands: Algebra, Exploring Data and Chance, Geometry and Spatial Sense, Measures and Measurement, Numeration and Order, Operations, and Patterns. The strands contain familiar elementary mathematics topics as well as applications intended to motivate the student and provide a context for the traditional arithmetic. In this grade 4 program, students experience a yearlong expedition around the world, starting in Washington, D.C. and then ranging through five regions of the world. Students use mathematical skills to determine air miles traveled, to read tables for information, and to keep a log of their travels. This kit has five components: a teacher's manual and lesson guide; a resource book with blackline masters for parent communication, student activities, and assessment; a world tour guidebook with maps, data, essays, games, and recipes for the tour project; two consumable student workbooks with problems for solution and pages to record the results of lesson-specific activities); and a scope and sequence chart broken down by months. Also included is a teacher's reference manual with background information on content, curriculum, and pedagogy. An assessment guide contains classroom-tested techniques and masters for inventories, self-assessment, and more formal assessment of grade-specific activities. A guide for teachers and administrators delineates how to familiarize families with this series. In a sample activity on organizing data, students work with a partner as they guess, estimate, and finally count objects such as raisins, macaroni, or beans in a container. Students organize the combined class results, record them on a table or graph, and analyze the data by discussing maximum, minimum, range, and mode. In the final activity, the class estimates the quantity of raisins (or other objects) found in a larger container. (Author/JRS) ENC-012102

Grade(s):
4

Contributor(s):
Amy Dillard; Eleanor Yura; Herb Price; James Flanders; James McBride; Kathy Little; Laurie Leff; Marissa Penrod; Mary Jo Hustoles; Max S Bell; Peggy Holm; Peter Saecker; Randee Blair; Robert Balfanz; Robert Hartfield; Sheila Sconiers; William M Carroll;