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Patterns in Arithmetic:
Book 1
By Suki Glenn and Susan Carpenter
Illustrations By Karen Minns and Suki Glenn
Homeschool and Classroon Edition
Patterns in Arithmetic: Book
1 Parent/Teacher Guide is a collection of lessons,
games, and activities. A separate workbook has all the worksheets needed
by the student. It is a book about teaching mathematics for home school
and classroom teachers. A goal of this book is to have students learn to
think as mathematicians think. Children learn addition, subtraction, patterns,
place value, and logic, and are introduced to multiplication, division,
and fractions by building models, looking for patterns, playing games, making
generalizations, and recording discoveries in ways that make sense to them.
Children learn by doing, exploring, and inventing. The clear instructions
and fun activities help children learn by using inquiry methods. They learn
arithmetic by doing mathematics. An answer key to the student workbook,
Evaluation tools to assess the student, a Sequence Guide for planning, and
helpful dialogues from actual lessons are included. 155
Pages - $15.00 155 pages ISBN 978-0-97292480-1
Patterns in Arithmetic: Book 1 Student Workbook accompanies the parent/teacher guide. It has the worksheets for all the lessons plus practice worksheet masters for additional practice. 150 pages - 3 hole punched. - $10.00 150 pages ISBN 978-0-9729248-1-8
Library Edition.
Includes the Parent/Teacher Guide, Student Workbook, and answer key all in one spiral bound book. 305 pages ISBN 978-0-9729248-2-5 - $45.00
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Subjects covered
Addition, Subtraction, Patterning, Logic, Place Value, General Math, beginning Multiplication, Division, and Fractions.
Activities in this book will help children:
"We are enjoying. Unlike a lot of educational activities
these are as much fun for me as for my daughter." ---Joyce Fetteroll, homeschool parent
Mathematicians are people who love finding relationships and using patterns in numbers and shapes to figure out how the world works. When children do the same, they are learning to be better mathematicians. Looking for and discovering patterns helps children find order in the world, make predictions about it, and make sense of it.
A place where research on how children learn and can learn better is the UCI Farm Elementary School, a research and development lab school for over twenty years. The philosophy of the school is based on the insights, ideas, and teachings of Professor Emeritus Michael Butler. Over the years many teachers have developed a mathematics program which aims to teach children to think like mathematicians, not just memorize some of the things that mathematicians have found out. Children "do" mathematics from the beginning, so there is an emphasis on inquiry and discovery, on invention, and on learning what genuine understanding feels like and how to achieve it. The materials are drawn from an array of published and unpublished sources and have been refined through practice with children. This book is based on the work that has been done at the Farm School
"The pages are simple and crisp, with nice big illustrations...this is wonderful!!!"
---Lillian Jones, homeschool parent
About the Authors: Top of Page
Suki Lueck Glenn, BA., MA., and Elementary Teaching Credential, CSU, Fullerton. Her teaching career began in the Teacher Corps in 1970. She taught children, ages five through seven, at the UC Irvine Farm Elementary School for seven years and was consultant to the school for many years. She gave workshops at the Greater San Diego Mathematics Council conference for two years. In 1993 she was a speaker at the CHEA conference in Anaheim. The topic was Math Manipulatives, which covered subjects in Patterns in Arithmetic. She has worked in public, private, and alternative schools and worked with homeschool parents and tutored children, ages five through twelve, for many years.
Susan Diane Carpenter, BA. Antioch College, M.S.T. University of Chicago. Susan began teaching second graders in Chicago Public Schools in 1969. Since then her career has spanned work with preschoolers through sixth graders in public, private, and alternative schools. She also supervised undergraduate and graduate students and worked with adult learners. She had the good fortune to teach and learn with Prof. Michael Butler, Suki Glenn and Alysia Krafel among others at the UCI Farm School 1982 -1999. There she observed first hand students understanding and enjoying mathematics while becoming better thinkers. Currently she lives on her hand-built boat in Iowa, grows heritage apples, and helps learners of all ages.
"What children acquire through active manipulation of the environment is nothing less than the ability to think." ---Jean Piaget
Reviewed by Lillian Jones, homeschool parent Top of Page
Math exploration with children can and should be a joyful adventure, and Suki Glenn's Patterns in Arithmetic is a book that can get families headed on that course. Inspired by over twenty years of research with children at the Farm School, a research and development lab school at the University of California at Irvine, the intent of the book is to get children thinking like mathematicians from the beginning.
"It is important for children to learn to compute-add, subtract, multiply, and divide" says the author, "but that is not enough." She explains that in these lessons "Children learn about addition, subtraction, patterns, place value, and logic by building models, looking for patterns, playing games, and record these discoveries in ways that make sense to them. They learn arithmetic by doing mathematics." A lot of thought has gone into this book. I wish it had been around years ago when I was first winging it with my own son!
This is not a workbook or a text-the parent gets involved with the child in the explorations. I have found this kind of exploration with children to be a very special way of sharing-a fun and exciting meeting of minds. My own inclination is to try to avoid pesky teacherly instincts and experience the joy of learning right along with the child. Exclamations of delight in the joy of discovery are a goal at our house. I love to see my son jump up from the table to go tell his dad about some math principle he's just discovered.
While Cuisenaire Rods are specified for some of the lessons, many of the manipulatives used in the program are quite common around the house: buttons, Goldfish crackers, pennies, crayons , dice, fruit, beans, etc. Many of the exercises are adaptations from Mathematics Their Way by Mary Baratta-Lorton, a widely loved math program that could otherwise be difficult to incorporate into the homeschool.
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