Hallmark Features:
- Appropriate Topical Sequence: Moves from the concrete to the pictorial to the abstract, reflecting the way math is generally taught in elementary schools.
- Problem Solving Emphasis: Features the largest collection of problems (over 3,000!), worked examples, and problem-solving strategies in any text of its kind.
- Extensive Geometry Coverage: Comprehensive, five-chapter treatment of geometry based on the van Hiele model provides students with the necessary, and often neglected, background in geometry.
- Integrated Technology: Technology and content are integrated throughout the text in a meaningful way. The technology includes activities from the expanded eManipulative activities, spreadsheet activities, Geometer’s Sketchpad activities, and calculator activities using a graphics calculator and Math Explorer.
Student Resource Handbook: This handbook is designed to enhance student learning as well as begin to model effective classroom practices. With many instructors working with students to create a personalized journal, this edition of the Handbook is three-hole punched for easy customization.
Included in this invaluable handbook are:
- Warm Ups:Â Short problem solving activities
- Hands on Activities:Â Activities that help develop initial understandings at the concrete level.
- Two Dimensional Manipulatives
- Exercises, Mental Math, and Self-tests.
- Solutions to all items in the handbook to enhance self-study.
- Resource Articles:Â Up-to-date references from journals for elementary teachers to help provide a connection to the classroom.
- Directions in Education: Specifically written articles that provide insights into major issues of the day, including the Standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.