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Item Nr: B 93367 Title: GEMS: Frog Math (Grades K-3)
Grade Lvl: T Author: Kopp, Jaine
Length: 99 Prod/Pub: Univ of California
Copyright: 1992 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee:
Copies: 1 Loan Period: 14 days
 
  Guide presents mathematics activities for primary students that can be modified for kindergarten students. Session 1 is based on the story "The Lost Button" by Arnold Lobel. Students investigate attributes, play the Button up game. Session 2: Sort, Classify and "Guess the Sort." Session 3: Designer Buttons. Students design buttons, then develop a variety of sorting methods, generate graphs. Session 4: Frog Guesstimation. Session 5: The Frog Pond Game (adaptation of the ancient Chinese logic game, NIM) encourages logical thinking. Session 6: Hop to the Pond Game (probability and statistics).

  Subjects:
  1654 - ESTIMATION
  535 - FROGS
  542 - GAMES
  1621 - GRAPHS/GRAPHING
  1401 - HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES
  694 - LOGIC
  715 - MATHEMATICS/MATH
  716 - MATHEMATICS/MATH--STUDY AND TEACHING
  1658 - PATTERNS
  1660 - PLACE VALUE
  1579 - PROBABILITIES/PROBABILITY
  1294 - PROBLEM SOLVING, MATH
  1628 - PROFESSIONAL PRESCHOOL/KINDERGARTEN MATH (MATHEMATICS)
  1629 - PROFESSIONAL PRIMARY MATH (MATHEMATICS)
  1033 - STATISTICS