Burns, Marilyn

Provides primary and middle school teachers with the resources and activities needed to teach their students the fundamentals of mathematics.

Presents fifty lessons for teaching mathematics in grades one through six, drawn from throughout ten years of the "Math Solutions" newsletter.

Provides puzzles, riddles, and projects designed to increase problem solving abilities.

Text, illustrations, and suggested activities offer a common-sense approach to mathematic fundamentals for those who are slightly terrified of numbers.

Events, gags, magic tricks, and experiments to change one from a mathematical weakling into a mathematical heavyweight.

As two children take a walk with their grandfather, they use their counting skills to help answer a series of animal riddles. Includes related activities.

The seating for a family reunion gets complicated as people rearrange the tables and chairs to seat additional guests.

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.