Readings for More Classroom Ideas
Bidwell, James K. "Using Reflections to Find Symmetric and Asymmetric Patterns." Arithmetic Teacher 34 (March 1987): 10-15.
Britton, Jill, and Walter Britton. Teaching Tessellating Art. Palo Alto, CA: Dale Seymour Publications, 1992.
Geddes, Dorothy, et at. Geometry 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, 1992.
Granger, Tim. "Math Is Art." Teaching Children Mathematics 7 (September 2000): 10-13.
Hirsch, Christian R. "Graphs, Games, and Generalizations." Mathematics Teacher 81 (December 1988): 741-745.
Horak, Virginia M., and W. J. Horak. "Let's Do It: Using Geometry Tiles as a Manipulative for Developing Basic Concepts." Arithmetic Teacher 30 (April 1983): 8-15.
Johnson, Art. "From Shadows to Surveying: Thales of Miletus." Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School 6 (November 2000): 170-174.
Kaiser, Barbara. "Explorations with Tessellating Polygons." Arithmetic Teacher 36 (December 1988): 19-24.
Phillips, Elizabeth, Glenda Lappan, Mary J. Winter, and William Fitzgerald. Similarity and Equivalent Fractions, Middle Grades Mathematics Project. Menlo Park, CA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1986.
Sawada, Daiyo. "Symmetry and Tessellations from Rotational Transformations on Transparencies." Arithmetic Teacher 33 (December 1985): 12-13.
Schattschneider, Doris. Visions of Symmetry: Notebooks, Periodic Drawings, and Related Work of M. C. Escher. New York, NY: W. H. Freeman and Company, 1990.
Seymour, D. and J. Britton. "Creating Escher-like Tessellations," in Introduction to Tessellations. Palo Alto, CA: Dale Seymour Publications, 1989,181-236.
Sovchik, Robert, and L. J. Meconi. "Ideas: Measurement." Arithmetic Teacher 41 (January 1994): 253-262.
Woodward, E., V. Gibbs, and M. Shoulders. "A Fifth-Grade Similarity Unit." Arithmetic Teacher 39 (April 1992): 22-25.
Woodward, Ernest, and P. G. Buckner. "Reflections and Symmetry-A Second-Grade Miniunit." Arithmetic Teacher 35 (October 1987): 8-11.
Zaslavsky, Claudia. "Networks-New York Subways, a Piece of String, and African Traditions." Arithmetic Teacher 29 (October 1981): 42-47.
