The Student Solutions Manual contains detailed solutions to the odd-numbered exercises and Chapter Tests. The introduction offers suggestions for solving problems and for answering the new Writing and Discussion and Making Connections questions in the text. Additional questions and comments have been included at the ends of some of the solutions to give students opportunities to extend their learning.

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.

This manual contains detailed, worked-out solutions to all of the newly organized Assessment A problems and Chapter Review exercises.