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| Teaching Children Mathematics | 15 |
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| Olson, Melfried | 15 |
| Olson, Judith | 7 |
| Sakshaug, Lynae | 3 |
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| Journal Articles | 15 |
| Guides - Classroom - Teacher | 13 |
| Guides - Non-Classroom | 1 |
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Peer reviewedOlson, Melfried – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2000
Presents responses to the Fair Share Problem. (Author/YDS)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedOlson, Melfried – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2002
Presents responses to the Painting Tiles problem. (Author)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedOlson, Melfried – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1999
Presents responses to a problem appearing in the December, 1998 issue on the concept of determining all possibilities for colored and numbered wristbands for students. (ASK)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedOlson, Melfried – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2001
Presents a problem of triangular tiles that involves counting and probability. Includes instructor guiding questions. (KHR)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Computation, Elementary Education, Mathematics Activities
Peer reviewedOlson, Judith; Olson, Melfried – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2000
Presents responses to the Marbles problem, which explores the many ways to arrange a given number of square tiles. (Author/YDS)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedOlson, Melfried; Sakshaug, Lynae; Olson, Judith – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1997
Presents the problem of doubling dough by creating a mixture of dough that doubles in volume every minute when placed in a warm oven. Discusses ways of proposing this question in the classroom. (ASK)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Estimation (Mathematics), Learning Activities, Mathematical Concepts
Peer reviewedOlson, Melfried; Olson, Judith – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2001
Presents a problem entitled "Puzzling Prices" for grades K-6. Students are given a combination of price tags and must determine the different amounts of money that could be made using different combinations. (KHR)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Elementary Education, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedOlson, Melfried; Sakshaug, Lynae; Olson, Judith – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1998
Presents a mathematics problem on patterns. Outlines and discusses the general problem-solving procedures. (ASK)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedOlson, Melfried – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2000
Presents the stair skipping problem to foster improved communication among mathematics teachers. (KHR)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Instructional Materials, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedOlson, Melfried; Olson, Judith – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2001
Discusses the Tiles and Sides problem from the December 2000 issue. Indicates that this problem is accessible to students at different grade levels. Presents samples of student responses and their teachers' analysis. (KHR)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Calculators, Concept Formation, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedOlson, Melfried – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1998
Presents a problem for students in grades 1-6 concerning the concept of probability. Discusses the student problem-solving process, and provides some responses to the problem published in the January 1998 issue of this journal. (ASK)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedOlson, Melfried – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1999
Presents responses to a division problem appearing in the September, 1998 "problem solvers" section of this journal. (ASK)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedOlson, Melfried; Sakshaug, Lynae; Olson, Judith – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1998
Presents a problem for students in grades 4-6 on Venn diagrams with or without manipulatives. Lists questions for teachers to reflect upon during the problem-solving process concerning student understanding of problems, problem-solving strategies, assessment, and reasoning skills. (ASK)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Intermediate Grades, Mathematical Concepts
Peer reviewedOlson, Melfried – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1998
Presents a problem for grades 3-6 on number concepts and computation. Also provides guidelines for teachers to improve problem-solving practices in their classrooms. (ASK)
Descriptors: Computation, Elementary Education, Grade 3, Grade 4
Peer reviewedOlson, Judith; Olson, Melfried – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1997
These activities explore classification and logical reasoning by providing students with opportunities to generate multiple answers and engage in multiple classifications of the same item. No solutions are suggested so that students will look to themselves as the mathematical authorities. Sample items for classification include birthday months,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classification, Critical Thinking, Elementary Education
