Blueprint for Understanding Today's College & Career Ready Math Standards Add Excitement and Fun Into Your Math Program I. Let s Get Ready to Rumble! A. Let s Start Each Morning with a Problem Over Coffee! 1. Why Do Numbers React the Way They Do? a. Pick Your Own! (page 4) b. The Difference Between (page 5) c. The Numbers Game I (page 6) d. The Numbers Game II (page 7) e. Four in a Row (page 8) f. The Calendar Game (page 9) g. High, Low and In Between (page 10) 2. Higher Levels of Thinking 3. Strategies to Encourage Math Talk! a. Learning the Process for Thinking b. Encourage Practice Opportunities through Problems B. Four-Letter Motivational Words 1. Game 2. Dice 3. Race 4. Food 5. Song II. The Components of the Manual A. Mathematical Content in the Elementary Classroom B. Important Points about Math Tools (page 12) C. Student Math Tools (page 14) 1. Using the Tool Kit Philosophy 2. Visuals That Change How Children See Mathematics (pages 42-47)
3. Mathematical Literature (pages 120-121) 4. Catalogs and Resources (pages 122-123) 5. ipod Inspirations (page 104) 6. Ron Brown s Music for Love Teaching Math! (pages 105-119) III. The Most Important Visual-Kim s Number Line A. Walk the Number Line (pages 16-17) 1. Color-Code the Number Line by Multiples and Factors 2. Questions and Activities for Kim s Number Line (website) 3. Make the Tool in Two Forms (pages 18-19) 4. Using Torn, Empty Number Lines for Every Skill (pages 20-21) 5. Songs that Create Permanence of the Content a. Alien Tens by Ron Brown (Skip Counting)(page 110) b. In Between by Ron Brown (Mighty Math)(page 111) c. Rounding Numbers by Ron Brown (Mighty Math) (112) d. Equivalent Fractions by Ron Brown (Mighty Math) (113) B. Walk the Line! (on screen) IV. Digit Cards Can Reinforce Every Standard! A. Show Me You Know! 1. Questions for the Digit Cards and the Hundreds Chart 2. Make the Tool for Understanding Place Value (pages 24-25) 3. Make the Mat for the Digit Cards (pages 26-27) 4. Songs that Create Permanence of the Content a. Greater Than, Less Than by Ron Brown (K-1 Math Songs) (page 117) b. Let s Tally Man by Ron Brown (Math Beats) (page 119) B. Number Chat Cards-Do The Math C. Games with the Digit Cards 1. All Down! for Primary (www.creativemathematics.com) 2. All Factors Down! for Third Grade and Above (website) 3. Race the Deck! for Drill and Practice (website) V. Developing Number Sense with Place Value Pockets
A. Three Parts to Number Sense 1. How We Record Quantity (Place Value) 2. How We Manipulate Quantity (Four Operations) 3. How We Compare Quantity (Less Than, Equal To, Greater Than) B. Number Chats Three Times a Week 1. Part of the Primary Calendar Time 2. Upper Grades Do Fraction Chats for Proportionality 3. Counting Rope Examples with Response Boards C. Big Theme of Number Composition and Decomposition D. Earth Day Hooray!-Stuart J. Murphy 1. Place Value Pockets (pages 22-23) 2. Supportive Building of Repeating and Growth Patterns E. Constructing Place Value Pockets-Whole Numbers and Decimals 1. Using the Master (pages 28-29) 2. Many Different Variations-Size to Grade Level Standard F. Songs that Create Permanence of the Content 1. Place Value Rap by Ron Brown (Math Concepts I & II) (118) 2. Let s Tally Man! by Ron Brown (Math Beats)(page 119) 3. Place Value to 1,000 by Ron Brown (Mighty Math) 4. Expanded Notation by Ron Brown (Math Beats) G. Place Value Clues by Kim Sutton (Place Value with Pizzazz) VI. The Best Drill and Practice Tool Ever! Pattern Sticks! A. Pattern Sticks (pages 30-31) 1. Amazing Drill Tool for Skip Counting and Multiplication 2. Amazing Tool for Equivalent Fractions B. Games for the Pattern Sticks 1. Pattern Stick Game (page 31) 2. Equivalent Fraction Game (page 32) C. Constructing the Pattern Sticks to Match Kim s Number Line D. Songs that Create Permanence of the Content 1. Three Naturally by Ron Brown (Multiplication)(page 114) 2. Four by Ron Brown (Multiplication)(page 115) 3. We re Doin Sevens! by Ron Brown (Multiplication) 4. Twelve by Ron Brown (Multiplication)
VII. Making the Hundreds Chart So Amazing for Students! A. Hundreds Chart Possibilities (pages 34-35) 1. Analyzing the Patterns of the Hundred Chart a. Evens and Odds b. Multiples and Factors c. Digital Root d. Mental Math and More 2. Charts in Cardstock-How Simple! (pages 36-37) 3. Transparent Chips-How Simple! B. Games Using the Hundreds Chart 1. Making 300! (pages 35, 40) 2. Making 500! (pages 35, 41) 3. Factors Where Are You? (pages 35, 38-39) VIII. Focus Activities that Reinforce Quickly (pages 47-61) A. Pattern Block Values (pages 48-49) 1. Polygons for Proportional Reasoning 2. Songs that Create Permanence of the Content a. Angles by Ron Brown (Mighty Math) (page 106) b. Polygons by Ron Brown (Math Beats) (page 107) 3. Neil An Alien--How Many Ways? B. Time After Time 1. Literature Books to Make Connections a. A Second is a Hiccup by Hazel Hutchins b. Making an Inclusive Circle Graph c. It s About Time by Lee Bennett Hopkins 2. Constructing Time Measurement Tools-How Simple! a. Analog Clock (page 54) b. Digital Clock (pages 56-57) c. Elapsed Time Tool (page 55) 3. Solving Elapsed Time Problems a. Tick Tock by Ron Brown (Math Concepts I & II) (page 108) b. Quarters of an Hour by Ron Brown (Math Beats) (page 109)
4. Hears the Who le by Kim Sutton (Powerful Numbers 0-100) IX. Math Drills to Thrill (pages 62-63) A. Make a Plan for Five to Nine Minutes Daily! 1. Cross Out to 18 by Kim Sutton (Dynamic Dice) (pages 64-65) 2. Ten Rolls Game by Kim Sutton (Dynamic Dice) (pages 66-67) B. Analyzing the Addition and Multiplication Tables (pages 68-69) C. New Ideas to Revitalize Your Classroom! 1. Tic-Tac-Toe Four Facts in a Row (pages 70-71) 2. Making a Mini Booklet for Repeated Practice (Tool Kit) 3. How to Ideas for Recording the Computation X. Domino Discoveries (pages 75-85) A. Using these Amazing Double Six Dominoes (pages 76-77) 1. Double Six Dominoes (page 78) 2. Constructing A Grab Bag for the Dominoes (page 79) B. Games to Play with Dominoes That Reinforce Skills 1. Flipping Dominoes (page 80) 2. Sum Up (page 81) 3. Difference Up (page 82) 4. Times Up (page 83) 5. Remainder Up (page 84) 6. Remainder Up (page 85) 7. Less Than, Equal To, Greater Than 8. Less Than, Equal To, Greater Than Fractions XI. Whole Class Lessons to Build Depth of Understanding (pages 86-103) A. Using Pattern Blocks as a Tool for Content 1. Discoveries to Be Made (page 88) 2. Count on Me by Bruno Mars B. Measuring Angles with Mirrors and the Polygons 1. Angles by Ron Brown (Math Beats) (page 106) 2. Dealing with Constants of Mathematics
C. Algebraic T-Tables for Growth Patterns 1. Pattern Game by Ron Brown (Rock Your Math Class) 2. Using the Giant T-Table (page 90) 3. Making a Mini Booklet for Repeated Practice (Tool Kit) 4. Play the Game of Input/Output (page 91) from Kim Sutton s Book (All Aboard the Algebra Express) 5. It s T-Table Time! What Does That Mean in the Classroom? D. The Magic Circle! (www.creativemathematics.com) 1. Newsprint Model--Follow Me and Then You Go! 2. Making a Mini Booklet for Repeated Practice (Tool Kit) E. Proportional Reasoning Through Three Models 1. Area Models Using Pattern Blocks (pages 94-96) 2. Fractions: A Part of the Whole by Kim Sutton 3. Build to One-Whole (page 94) 4. Wipe Out from One-Whole (page 95) 5. Strive for Five (page 96) 6. Set Models--Word Fractions and Place Value Clues 7. Number Line Models through Race Track Fractions (pages 100-103)
XII. Ron Brown s Music (pages 104-119) Notes: A. The Brilliant and Amazing Ron Brown of Intelli-Tunes 1. Angles by Ron Brown (Mighty Math) (page 106) 2. Polygons by Ron Brown (Math Beats) (page 107) 3. Tick Tock by Ron Brown (Math Concepts I & II) (page 108) 4. Quarters of an Hour by Ron Brown (Math Beats) (page 109) 6. Alien Tens by Ron Brown (Skip Counting)(page 110) 7. In Between by Ron Brown (Mighty Math)(page 111) 8. Rounding Numbers by Ron Brown (Mighty Math) (112) 9. Equivalent Fractions by Ron Brown (Mighty Math) (113) 10. Three Naturally by Ron Brown (Multiplication) (114) 11. Four by Ron Brown (Multiplication) (115) 13. Count by Threes by Ron Brown (Math Concepts I & II) (116) 14. Greater Than, Less Than by Ron Brown (K-1 Math Songs) (page 117) 15. Place Value Rap by Ron Brown (Math Concepts I & II) (page 118) 16. Let s Tally Man by Ron Brown (Math Beats) (page 119) B. Using Eric Jensen s Research to Inspire Students with an ipod