This book is designed for a mathematics for elementary school teachers course where instructors choose to focus on and/or take an activities approach to learning. It provides inductive activities for prospective elementary school teachers and incorporates the use of physical models, manipulatives, and visual images to develop concepts and encourage higher-level thinking. This text contains an activity set that corresponds to each section of the companion text, Mathematics for Elementary Teachers: A Conceptual Approach which is also by Bennett/Nelson. The Activities Approach text can be used independently or along with its companion volume. The authors are pleased to welcome Laurie Burton, PhD, Western Oregon University to this edition of Mathematics for Elementary Teachers: An Activity Approach.

The teacher's manual comes in two three-ring binders and consists of 160 daily lessons plus four additional lettered lessons. Each lesson is bound in booklet form that allows the teacher to move freely around the room carrying only the booklet for that day. Each lesson booklet contains a list of materials, pre-class preparation instructions, the dialogued instructional components, and reduced versions of selected student pages. Mathematical vocabulary, higher order thinking skills references, and extension and enrichment activities are also shown on page one of each lesson booklet. - Introduction.

This comprehensive sourcebook, which identifies and locates kits, games, and manipulatives, is organized into broad subject areas, including reading and language arts, mathematics, social studies, science and health, and the arts. Some 1,500 entries provide physical descriptions of the materials and