— Packed Full of Fun, Educational Activities and Colorful Stickersp– Specially designed to help young children understand math conceptsp– Each bright page reinforces an essential math skill!

Research shows that attitudes about science, math, and technology start to form during the early schooling years. This pioneering book shows how to successfully use technology in the early childhood classroom. Grounded in a constructivist approach to teaching and learning, the author focuses on robotic manipulatives that allow children to explore complex concepts in a concrete and fun way. At the same time, she examines how this technology engages sensorimotor and socioemotional skills, which are fundamental for the healthy development of young children.

Make learning fun for your young learner with the Songs That Teach Division workbook and CD set! Colorful activities and playful songs will help children learn and reinforce their math skills. The Division workbook features activities that teach: – Division terms – Facts through 12 – Division strategies – Real-life problem solving – Time tests The accompanying Division CD features: – 14 songs that can be used with or without the workbook – Over 50 minutes of musical learning – Songs about division facts, strategies, and more! Musical Learning Fun for All!

Focusing on the move from primary to secondary school, this book aims to help teachers and school managers to recognize and accommodate the often traumatic effects that this transition has on young people’s lives. The book considers the perspectives of pupils, parents and teachers, and in particular deals with the concepts and practicalities of curriculum continuity and progression in the core subjects–English, math and science. Section two of the book offers specific advice, illustrated with examples of good practice, on how the needs of children in transition may be met by teachers and schools. The authors provide materials for conducting a transition audit, which will enable schools to identify their strengths and weaknesses in their approach to transition. This is taken a step further with guidance on setting up school networks and liaison processes.

Read Any Good Math Lately? acquaints readers with some of the best children’s literature containing a mathematical subtext, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, books of games and puzzles, books that reflect different cultures.. . . at once creative and educational, inspiring and practical. Whitin and Wilde have helped create a book that will challenge your thinking about math and liven your curriculum . . .-Young Children?. . . at once creative and educational, inspiring and practical. Whitin and Wilde have helped create a book that will challenge your thinking about math and liven your curriculum . . .?-Young Children, . . at once creative and educational, inspiring and practical. Whitin and Wilde have helped create a book that will challenge your thinking about math and liven your curriculum . . . – Young ChildrenpChildren’s books provide an authentic context for using mathematics. They celebrate mathematics as a language for describing and framing our world. And they are also a nonthreatening vehicle for investigating a variety of mathematical concepts and relationships.pRead Any Good Math Lately? acquaints readers with some of the best children’s literature containing a mathematical subtext, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, books of games and puzzles, books that reflect different cultures. The titles are diverse, but they all address a range of mathematical topics: place value, estimation, large numbers, geometry, measurement, fractions, classification, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Plus comprehensive bibliographies of books for all ages are provided for further exploration.pFilled with children’s work and numerous classroom scenarios, Read Any Good Math Lately? demonstrates the rich potential literature holds for engaging learners in a variety of mathematical investigations. It is an invitation to teachers, parents, and librarians to make the reading and sharing of good literature a natural part of mathematics teach?è

The No. 1-selling kids’ almanac becomes a fun educational tool in these portable decks tailored by age and subject. Seventy-five curriculum-based activities encourage children as young as 3 to develop their skills in a specific subject—including numbers and counting, reading comprehension, science, and math. The decks are packed with brain-engaging games, puzzles, riddles, and fascinating facts. Perfect for children, parents, and teachers,emWorld Almanac for Kids Puzzler Decks/emmake learning enjoyable and rewarding at home or in the classroom.Lynn Brunelle is a former classroom teacher, a best-selling children’s book author, and an Emmy Award-winning writer. Her educational projects range from the board games Cranium and Brain Quest to the TV shows Bill Nye the Science Guy and Pop Bottle Science. She is a regular contributor to NPR’s Science Friday Kids’ Connection and has written for PBS, the Discovery Channel, National Geographic World, and FamilyFun magazine. She lives near Seattle with her husband and two sons.

Help is here! Challenge Mazes Homework Helper provides children in second grade with extra help learning important basic skills. Packed full of fun-to-do activities and appealing art, children will have fun completing the mazes while learning at the same time. Answer keys are included where needed. Reproducible. Our cost-effective Homework Helpers are a must-have! They provide help for students who need extra practice with basic skills, for the accelerated student who enjoys the extra challenge, and for the young learner who is developing basic concepts and readiness skills. They also help boost self-confidence and reinforce basic skills with activities that are geared to the specific grade level. Collect all 48 titles for preschool to grade 3 including alphabet, numbers, shapes, phonics, math, reading comprehension, and much more!

CHARLES MURRAY is the author of two of the most widely debated and influential social policy books in the last three decades,iLosing Ground: American Social Policy 1950–1980/iand, with the late Richard J. Herrnstein,iThe Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life/i. He is the W. H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.brbrbriFrom the Hardcover edition./i”The most talked-about education book this semester.” —iNew York Times/ibrbrBased on a series of controversialiWall Street Journal/iop-eds, this landmark manifesto gives voice to what everyone knows about talent, ability, and intelligence but no one wants to admit. With four truths as his framework, Charles Murray, the bestselling coauthor ofiThe Bell Curve/i, sweeps away the hypocrisy, wishful thinking, and upside-down priorities that grip America’s educational establishment.brbr*Ability varies. Children differ in their ability to learn, but America’s educational system does its best to ignore this.brbr*Half of the children are below average. Many children cannot learn more than rudimentary reading and math. Yet decades of policies have required schools to divert resources to unattainable goals.brbr*Too many people are going to college. Only a fraction of students struggling to get a degree can profit from education at the college level.brbr*America’s future depends on how we educate the academically gifted. It is time to start thinking about the kind of education needed by the young people who will run the country.”Takes a moral sledgehammer to our one-size-fits-all education mind-set.”br—iWashington Times/ibrbr”It is astonishing to see plain common sense written about education, a topic I had thought long since drowned deep beneath an ocean of nonsense, venality, and lies.”br—John Derbyshire, National Review@

The No. 1-selling kids’ almanac becomes a fun educational tool in these portable decks tailored by age and subject. Seventy-five curriculum-based activities encourage children as young as 3 to develop their skills in a specific subject—including numbers and counting, reading comprehension, science, and math. The decks are packed with brain-engaging games, puzzles, riddles, and fascinating facts. Perfect for children, parents, and teachers,emWorld Almanac for Kids Puzzler Decks/emmake learning enjoyable and rewarding at home or in the classroom.Lynn Brunelle is a former classroom teacher, a best-selling children’s book author, and an Emmy Award-winning writer. Her educational projects range from the board games Cranium and Brain Quest to the TV shows Bill Nye the Science Guy and Pop Bottle Science. She is a regular contributor to NPR’s Science Friday Kids’ Connection and has written for PBS, the Discovery Channel, National Geographic World, and FamilyFun magazine. She lives near Seattle with her husband and two sons.

These informative and inspiring biographies will give young readers a look at the lives of some of the world’s most influential people in history. Each over 100 pages, the books are also ideal for reports. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, two of literature’s most beloved children’s classics, were written by Charles Dodgson under the pen name Lewis Carroll. Suffering from a pronounced stutter, he felt most at ease with children. especially young girls like the six sisters he helped to raise. An English and mathematics lecturer, Dodgson also wrote several math texts, poetry, and was a celebrated amateur photographer.