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Basil Conway IV; Marjorie Mitchell – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2023
This article describes students learning to build their own numbering system by recognizing and identifying patterns with interlocking cubes in different place values. The students used the Egyptian hieroglyphic numeral system in conjunction with this activity to connect learning in other subjects. Students used prior knowledge of place value to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Geometric Concepts, Concept Formation, Number Systems
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Su, Hui Fang Huang; Marinas, Carol; Furner, Joseph M. – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2010
Children are often intrigued by number patterns and games and so it makes sense for teachers to include them in their mathematics lessons. Puzzles encourage the use of critical thinking skills and provide practice in important skills areas. The use of games fosters mathematical learning and encourages the mathematical processes that children use.…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Mathematics Instruction, Thinking Skills, Mathematical Concepts
DeSoto Parish School Board, Mansfield, LA. – 1971
The primary aim of this guide is to aid teachers in planning and preparing a senior high school mathematics course for students preparing for college work. It is divided into separate one-semester courses of seven chapters each. The first-semester course consists of a traditional approach to the introduction of trigonometry and trigonometric…
Descriptors: Algebra, Curriculum Guides, Geometric Concepts, Graphs
Armstrong, Richard; And Others – 1980
This two-volume teacher's guide is to be used with a second-semester, sixth-grade mathematics program. The manner of presentation and the pedagogical ideas and tools are based on the works of Georges and Frederique Papy. They are recognized as having introduced colored arrow drawings ("papygrams") and models of our numeration system (the…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Diagrams, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Heidema, Clare; And Others – 1979
This two-volume teacher's guide is to be used with a first-semester, third-grade mathematics program. The program is in large part the outgrowth of involvement with children and was influenced by information gathered in an extended pilot project conducted nationwide during 1975-79. The manner of presentation and the pedagogical ideas and tools are…
Descriptors: Addition, Algorithms, Diagrams, Elementary Education
Heidema, Clare; And Others – 1979
This two-volume teacher's guide is to be used with a second-semester, third-grade mathematics program. The program is in large part the outgrowth of involvement with children and was influenced by information gathered in an extended pilot project conducted nationwide during 1975-79. The manner of presentation and the pedagogical ideas and tools…
Descriptors: Addition, Algorithms, Diagrams, Elementary Education