From the birthday of the man who wore size-23 shoes to the invention of the sandwich, this eclectic and quirky collection of activity-based event anniversaries (two per day, for every day of the year, from January 1 through December 31st) adds a blend of serious and light-hearted oomph to math instruction. Provides opportunities for collecting, organizing, and graphing data; relating to monetary issues; thinking about areas of measurement; and more. Ideal for integrating math with other areas of the curriculum and relating math to the real world.
Each of the month-to-month planning guides provide an overall sense of the curriculum for the entire year, the focus for each month, and what specifically to teach day by day. Topics of study include addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions, geometry, and more.
Planning math instruction is a demanding aspect of teaching. Teachers need to have an overall sense of the curriculum for the whole year, of what's going to be taught each month, and of what specifically to teach each day. This guide makes it easy to plan all three. It offers helpful mathematical strands organized month by month and covering grade-relevant topics. Includes reproducibles.
