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Marilyn Burns Math videos focus on helping teachers help students learn K–8 math. The videos feature one-on-one interviews with students, classroom lessons, chats with Marilyn, problems to...
Find fun and engaging activities to practice perimeter and area using geoboards, graph paper, dice, and Rice Chex. Based on the book Spaghetti and Meatballs for All by Marilyn Burns, these activities are suitable for elementary students.
Written with Math Solutions master teachers, the lessons help teachers see how instruction in algebra builds on and supports the instruction they’re already providing in number and geometry. Lessons cover algebraic topics of patterns, functions, variables, and coordinate graphs.
Find 76 lesson plans and worksheets for math teachers based on Marilyn Burns' books and activities. Explore topics such as polygons, circles, estimation, and writing in math class.
Overview. Build a solid mathematical foundation with classroom-tested lessons. "Classroom tested" means there's plenty of support in each module's 30 half-hour lessons. Teachers build capacity as students move from basic conceptual understanding to skills development in addition and subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions.
This blog post presents a detailed lesson plan for using the border problem with students and also includes a five-minute video clip to give you a sense of how the instruction went with one class. Marilyn Burns April 19, 2016
Make student talk a regular part of your lessons. Partner talk—sometimes called "turn and talk" or "think-pair- share"—encourages students to voice their ideas. Giving them a minute or so to talk with a neighbor also helps students get ready to contribute to a discussion.
