number strategies
Games and Puzzles that Reach the Kids and Teach the Standards
By Bill Lombard on 27 November, 2009
The title of this post is from a conference session at the California Math Council conference at Asilomar in December, 2009. You may download the handout, with instructions for some activities, through the following link: Games and Puzzles that Reach the Kids and Teach the Standards – download file Puzzles and Games are a great [...]
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Digit Puzzles–Using Number Sense Strategies to Foster Algebraic Thinking for All Students
By Bill Lombard on 1 June, 2008
The June 2008 issue of the California Math Council ComMuniCator journal has posed the following problem in the student problem section: “Use each of the numbers 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, and any operations to express as many counting numbers as possible, beginning with 1. All five of the numbers must be used in [...]
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