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Visualizing and investigating big ideas, grade 4
v, 263 pages
illustrations.
Contents: Activities for building norms -- Seeing patterns inside numbers -- Building and designing with shapes and angles -- Making and naming number patterns -- Units are a relationship -- Modeling with unit fractions -- Exploring fraction equivalence -- Illustrating multiplication and division -- Using operations flexibly -- What is a decimal?
Summary: In this volume, you'll find a collection of low floor, high ceiling tasks that will help students understand the connections between mathematics concepts, by looking at the big ideas at the fourth-grade level through visualization, play, and investigation. With engaging questions, open-ended tasks, and four-color visuals that will help kids get excited about mathematics, Mindset Mathematics is organized around nine big ideas which emphasize the connections within the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and can be used with any current curriculum. (Publisher)