Teaching Division Using LEGO Bricks - Softcover

Disseler, Dr. Shirley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1938406575 ISBN 13: 9781938406577

Publisher: Brigantine Media, 2016

Synopsis

In Teaching Division Using LEGO® Bricks, Dr. Shirley Disseler has developed activities that work to help students learn the basics of division, using a common toy available in most classrooms and homes—LEGO® bricks!

True understanding of division goes far beyond memorizing facts. Modeling the process of division with LEGO® bricks helps students visualize the math problem. We know that students learn in many different ways. This book provides a variety of modeling techniques using LEGO® bricks, allowing all students to experience that “Aha! I get it!” moment.

In this book, the hands-on activities using LEGO® bricks help students learn: · equal shares or partitive division · repeated subtraction or quotitive division · multiplication and division fact families · basic division · two-digit division and dividing larger numbers

The book starts at the most basic concepts and focuses on a specific topic in each chapter. Most students learn these concepts between grades 3 – 6.

Using LEGO® bricks to model math provides a universal language. Children everywhere recognize this manipulative. It’s fun to learn when you’re using LEGO® bricks in the classroom!

About this title

About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dr. Shirley Disseler is Associate Professor at High Point University and Chair of the Department of Elementary and Middle Grades Education, and the STEM Coordinator for the BA to MEd Program. She has over 25 years of educational experience, from elementary school teaching through higher education, including gifted education and exceptional children. Disseler works as a Master Trainer for LEGO® Education, and serves as the LEGO® Math Expert for Elementary Curriculum Development. She has been instrumental in the development and testing of the LearnToLearn, MoreToMath, and WeDo 2.0 products developed in Billund, Denmark. She serves on the LEGO Education Ambassadors Panel and is the trainer for the High Point University Teacher Academy for LEGO® Education. Disseler is the author of Strategies and Activities for Common Core Math, Parts 1 & 2, and conducts research on engagement and creativity in mathematics classrooms. She offers consulting in manipulative mathematics, active learning, classroom management, and learning with LEGO® bricks.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brigantine Media
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1938406575
• ISBN 13: 9781938406577
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 52