Math Puzzles and Patterns for Kids: Grades 2-4
By (Author) Kristy Fulton
Prufrock Press
Prufrock Press
1st April 2007
United States
Professional and Scholarly
Paperback
58
Width 216mm, Height 279mm
108g
Move beyond the norm in your math classroom and challenge students to think critically with Math Puzzles and Patterns for Kids.
Exploring the hottest concept in puzzle solvingmath logic puzzlesMath Puzzles and Patterns for Kids teaches students how to use reasoning to solve some of math's biggest conundrums: real-life patterns and puzzles such as Fibonacci's sequence, Sudoku puzzles, tangrams, Pascal's triangle, and magic squares.
Students are taught the basic premises behind each challenging puzzle and are then asked to use the skills they have learned to solve multiple versions of each puzzle.
Grades 2-4
Kristy Fulton has been teaching first grade for 14 years. She is also currently pursuing a master's degree in curriculum and instruction at the University of Texas-Arlington. She earned her B.A. in English from UT-Permian Basin in 1992. Kristy has been recognized twice as a Model Educator by Renaissance Learning, and has received two Classroom Innovation grants from First Choice Power Company.