An experienced math teacher shares the 250 10-minute quizzes he developed that helped boost his students' mental math skills and their scores on standardized tests. Topics covered include addition, subtration, multiplication, division, numeration, patterns, percents, ratio, rounding, prime numbers, geometry and much more. Includes ready-to-use, reproducible answer sheets. Geared to the NCTM standards. For use with Grades 4-8.

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Intuitive and constructive ideas for educating children, whether or not one is homeschooling.

Howard Gardner's groundbreaking theory applied for classroom use This important book offers a practical guide to understanding how Howard Gardner's theory of Multiple Intelligences (MI) can be used in the classroom. Gardner identified eight different types of intelligence: linguistic, logical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, naturalist, interpersonal, and intrapersonal. Celebrating Every Learner describes the characteristics of each type of intelligence and follows up with ready-to-use lesson plans and activities that teachers can use to incorporate MI in their pre-K through 6 classrooms. Offers a treasury of easily implemented activities for engaging all students' multiple intelligences, from the New City School, a leading elementary school at the forefront of MI education Provides ready-to-use lesson plans that teachers can use to incorporate MI in any elementary classroom Includes valuable essays on how and why to integrate MI in the classroom Hoerr is the author of a bi-monthly column for Educational Leadership as well as the editor of the "Intelligence Connections" e-newsletter

Make mathematics come alive for your students with these entertaining and educational spinner games. Each quick to assemble and easy-to-use game reinforces a wide range of skills including problem solving and mathematical reasoning, number sense and numeration, whole number operations, geometry and spatial sense, and probability. 25 Spinner Games for Math comes complete with spinner templates, suggestions for game variations and extensions, critical thinking questions, and book links. For use with Grades 3-5.