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Direct linkBush, Sarah B.; Karp, Karen S.; Lentz, Tova; Nadler, Jennifer – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2017
Many elementary schools across the nation are scaling back or cutting arts curriculum altogether. This article presents classroom teachers with an activity for integrating art with mathematics. Through a three-phase exploration of reasoning with shapes and their attributes, students will get to know a classmate better, work with defining and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics, Art Education, Integrated Activities
Bleiler, Sarah K.; Thompson, Denisse R. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2012
Given the recent release and widespread state adoption of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM), teachers across the country now have common goals related to what their students should understand about particular mathematical topics. The authors of CCSSM explain, "Asking a student to understand something means asking a teacher to…
Descriptors: State Standards, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Instruction
Wilson, Johnnie B. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2010
It is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that teaching mathematics should greatly differ from teaching language arts. Classroom teachers at Munich International School in Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany, did not pay much attention to what language means to learning and teaching mathematics--until their geometry students offered language surprises…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geometric Concepts, Geometry, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedWeber, William B., Jr. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2003
Suggests using literature to study geometry and presents activities on the book "Sitting in My Box." (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Geometric Concepts, Geometry
Peer reviewedMoyer, Patricia S. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2001
Describes how students connect culture and mathematics by using tessellating and symmetrical patterns in the designs of architecture, pottery, blankets, and baskets as models to create geometric designs for a quilt. (Author/YDS)
Descriptors: Culture, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Geometry
Peer reviewedJenner, Donna M. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2002
Describes how mathematical understanding grows and develops while children play with the mathematical ideas they see emerging as they hear and talk about the story "Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt". (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Geometry, Interdisciplinary Approach
Peer reviewedPaznokas, Lynda S. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2003
Discusses ways in which teachers can use the appealing study of quilts as a tool for teaching mathematics concepts and connecting multicultural history, literacy, and art. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Diversity (Student), Elementary Education, Geometry, Interdisciplinary Approach
Peer reviewedSenger, Elizabeth S.; And Others – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1997
Describes a classroom project integrating children's literature, Japanese culture, and geometry that grew out of the local killing of a Japanese exchange student. Fourth-graders read "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes" around which the interdisciplinary unit was developed. Topics covered included Japanese culture, American social…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Childrens Literature, Cultural Education, Elementary Education
