Readings for More Classroom Ideas
Ameis, Jerry A. "Developing an Area Formula for a Circle with 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears.'" Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School7 (November 2001): 140-142.
Badger, Elizabeth. "More Than Testing." Arithmetic Teacher 39 (May 1992): 7-11. Baker, Camille. "How Big was the Roman Empire?" Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School 1 (March-April 1996): 754-759.
Barson, Alan, and L. Barson. "Ideas: Measurement Activities." Arithmetic Teacher 35 (May 1988): 20-29.
Bay, Jennifer M., Ann M. Bledsoe, and Robert E. Reys. "State-ing the Facts: Exploring the United States." Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School 4 (September 1998): 8-14.
Britton, Barbara J., and Sheryl L. Stump. "Unexpected Riches from a Geoboard Quadrilateral Activity." Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School 6 (April 2001): 490-493.
Chapin, Suzanne H. "Mathematical Investigations-Powerful Learning Situations." Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School 3 (February 1998): 332-338.
Cook, March. "Ideas: Rectangle Activities." Arithmetic Teacher 36 (March 1989): 27-32.
Duke, Charlotte. "Tangrams and Area." Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School 3 (May 1998): 485-487.
Fay, Nancy, and C. Tsairides. "Metric Mall." Arithmetic Teacher 37 (September 1989): 6-11.
Geddes, Dorothy, et al. Measurement in the Middle Grades, in the Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics Addenda Series: Grades 5-8. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1994.
Holcomb, Joan. "Using Geoboards in the Primary Grades." Arithmetic Teacher 27 (April 1980): 22-25.
Horak, Virginia M., and W. J. Horak. "Let's Do It: Making Measurement Meaningful." Arithmetic Teacher 30 (November 1982): 18-23.
Jensen, Rosalie, and D. R. O'Neil. "Let's Do It: Meaningful Linear Measurement." Arithmetic Teacher 29 (September 1981): 6-12.
Kubota-Zarivnij, Kathy. "How Do You Measure a Dad?" Teaching Children Mathematics 6 (1999): 260-264.
Lamphere, Patricia. "Geoboard Patterns and Figures." Teaching Children Mathematics 1 (January 1995): 282-286.
Mistretta, Regina, and Joseph A. Porzio. "Celebrate Metric Day." Teaching Children Mathematics 7 (October 2000): 96-97.
Olson, Melfried. "Responses to the No Pegs Allowed Problem." Teaching Children Mathematics 8 (October 2001): 76-79.
Reeves, Muffet. "Are You Measuring Up?" Teaching Children Mathematics 6 (October 1999): 102-103. Reynolds, Anne, and Grayson H. Wheatley. "Third-Grade Students Engage in a Playground Measuring Activity." Teaching Children Mathematics 4 (November 1997): 166-170.
Rhone, Lynn. "Measurement in a Primary Integrated Curriculum," in Connecting Mathematics Across the Curriculum, 1999 Yearbook, edited by P. A. House and A. F. Coxford, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1995: 124-133.
Scavo, Thomas R., and Byron Petraroja. "Adventures in Statistics." [metric, area] Teaching Children Mathematics 4 (March 1998): 394-400.
Shaw, Jean M. "Let's Do It: Exploring Perimeter and Area Using Centimeter Squared Paper." Arithmetic Teacher 31 (December 1983): 4-11.
Stix, Andi. "Pic-Jour Math: Pictorial Journal Writing in Mathematics." Arithmetic Teacher 41 (January 1994): 264-269.
Trafton, Patricia A., and Christina Hartman. "Exploring Area with Geoboards." Teaching Children Mathematics 4 (October 1997): 72-75.
Whitin, David J., and Cassandra Gary. "Promoting Mathematical Explorations Through Children's Literature." Arithmetic Teacher 41 (March 1994): 394-399.
Young, Sharon L., and Robin O'Leary. "Creating Numerical Scales for Measuring Tools." Teaching Children Mathematics 8 (March 2002): 400-405.
Zaslavsky, Claudia. "People Who Live in Round Houses." Arithmetic Teacher 37 (September 1989): 18-21.
