Burns, Marilyn

Deals with various aspects of childhood including family, school, money, legal rights, TV, and movies, body language, and generally, how to make the most of childhood right now.

Describes when, why, and how people started to measure time and discusses such topics as time zones, biorhythms, and jet lag. Also includes instructions for a variety of related projects.

Presents seventeen classroom-tested math lessons for grades 1-3, describing how they are introduced, how students respond, and how teachers might proceed. Covers building number sense, developing understanding of place value, and activities in geometry, measurement, and probability.

Offers inspiring, practical, classroom-tested ideas for helping students in grades three through six learn mathematics through problem solving.

A collection of "hink pink" riddles, whose answers always have two words that rhyme, and form a definition.

Dissatisfied with its shape, a triangle keeps asking the local shapeshifter to add more lines and angles until it doesn't know which side is up.

Offers advice and guidance on how to teach mathematics in the elementary school classroom, presented in the form of over one hundred questions and answers, covering preparation and planning, manipulative materials, calculators, number sense, homework, and other topics.

Discusses the negative effects of Americans' ever present mathematics phobia on children and on society at large, explaining the necessity of improving math education and changing attitudes toward math so that individuals can fulfill their mathematical potential and take advantage of employment opportunities that call for logic and problem-solving skills.

Discusses why and how Hanukkah is celebrated and includes recipes, songs, and instructions for playing with a dreidel.