Hands-On Computer Activities for Teaching Math: Grades 3-8 - Softcover

Burnley, Beverly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471651982 ISBN 13: 9780471651987

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2004

Synopsis

Featuring more than 100 step-by-step activities that use common computer programs, such as Microsoft® Word and Paint®, to model concepts in five basic areas, this revolutionary guide shows math teachers how to combine math and technology education to support national math standards and increase students’ computer proficiency. Sections include Numbers and Operations, Measurement, Algebra, Geometry, and Data Analysis and Probability.

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From the Back Cover

HANDS-ON

Computer Activities for Teaching Math

Hands-On Computer Activities for Teaching math shows classroom math teachers and math specialists for grades 3 through 8 how to combine math and technology education to support national math standards and increase their students' computer proficiency levels. Beverly Burnley's unique system of effective, ready-to-use projects explains key concepts in five basic areas of math:

• NUMBERS AND OPERATIONS: Constructing a Multiplication Table... Comparing Fractions... Adding and Subtracting Integers
• MEASUREMENT: Telling Time... Estimating Perimeter and Area... Constructing and Naming Angles
• ALGEBRA: Forming Patterns with Triangles... Representing Variables... Solving simple Algebraic Equations
• GEOMETRY: Locating Points... Constructing Polygons and Tangrams ... Netting a Cube
• DATA ANALYSIS AND PROBABILITY: Understanding Probability ... Representing Data with Bar Graphs, Pictographs, Line Graphs, and Pie Graphs ... Determining Mean, Median, Mode, and Range

Featured here are more than a hundred step-by-step activities that use common computer programs, such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and Paint, to model the different math concepts. Each activity is explained in simple, nontechnical directions, and includes a specific learning objective and an illustration of the model to be created. After a guided lesson, students can create other models and explain the math concepts on their own. All activities are based on the NCTM standards and can be easily adapted to the different grade levels.

This indispensable, timesaving resource makes it easy to integrate computers into the math curriculum. Students will enjoy the math curriculum. Students will enjoy creating math images and modeling the various concepts-and they will better retain these concepts through their hands-on work while simultaneously increasing their computer skills.

About the Author

Beverly Burnley earned her bachelor's degree in elementary education from Harris Stowe Teachers College in St. Louis, Missouri. As a Title I teacher in the East St. Louis (Illinois) public schools, she has used models and representations to teach mathematics to gifted and remedial students in grades 1 through 6 for more than thirty-three years. While instructing entire classrooms in a computer lab environment, she created a unique teaching strategy that supports the math standards and increases students' computer proficiency levels.
Ms. Burnley has presented this strategy for professional development workshops at the St. Clair County (Illinois) Regional Office of Education and now describes it for teachers across the country in her new book, Hands-On Computer Activities for Teaching Math.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0471651982
• ISBN 13: 9780471651987
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256