Elementary School Mathematics: Keeping in Step with Our Society.

Mitchell, Charles E.

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ERIC Number: EJ438390

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1991

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Elementary School Mathematics: Keeping in Step with Our Society.

Mitchell, Charles E.

School Science and Mathematics, v91 n8 p353-56 Dec 1991

A variety of suggestions for making the mathematics curriculum more meaningful and interesting to students are described. Activities that incorporate real-world situations are provided for verbal items, common and decimal fractions, estimations and rounding off numbers, large and small numbers, geometry, probability, and statistics. (KR)

Descriptors: Decimal Fractions, Elementary Secondary Education, Estimation (Mathematics), Geometry, Learning Activities, Mathematical Applications, Mathematics Education, Numbers, Probability, Statistics

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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