Number and Operations Literature:

1. Emeka’s Gift
2. Five Little Monkeys
3. The M&M’s Counting Book
4. Each Orange Had 8 Slices
5. It’s Hard to Be Five
6. Ten Apples Up On Top!
7. Ten Black Dots
8. Wee Sing and Learn 123

1. Discussion of Burns, Chapters 4 and 5

• A Capful of Fractions
• Math Under Pressure: with a partner, come up with two stressful “mathematical situations” you can recall experiencing as an adult.

2. Numbers and Operations Strand (NCTM Standards)

• Counting, comparing, place value, ordinal and cardinal numbers, connecting number words, numerals, quantities, rational numbers, addition and subtraction, computation tools
• Samples of Numbers and Operations manipulatives and visual aids (one to one correspondence manipulatives, numeral/quantity/word visuals, games, counting boxes/trays, books, subitizing ideas)

3. Numbers and Operations Activity Centers

• Fraction Cards – investigate fractional formulas
• Stringing Place Value – demonstrate understanding of place value from thousands to thousandths
• Dominoes – develop a list of number sense concepts you can address by using dominoes
• Vocabulary test – what do you remember??
• Playing cards – various number sense concepts

4. Y.C. – Chapters 2 and 4

• Principles in Teaching Math…
• Numbers and Operations

For next week’s class, print out a copy of the lesson plan format.  We will be covering this in depth. It will be to your advantage to write notes on the lesson plan itself as we discuss the format and expectations in class. Print out the Algebra strand from the NCTM standards.