611 Math Potatoes: Mind-Stretching Brain Food Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–4 Professional Commentary: The 16 counting problems presented in this book are illustrated in such a way as to suggest multiple ways of arriving at a total. The rhymes on each page suggest one approach to use, but the visual arrangements may prompt other solutions.... Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–7 Professional Commentary: An entry on the Ohio Resource Center Mathematics Bookshelf, this book is the first in a 3-volume series of Anno's Math Games. Each volume in the series deals with a multitude of topics and begins each topic simply enough to be accessible to young students, but continues the development far enough to intrigue middle grades students.... Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 2–7 Professional Commentary: An entry on the Ohio Resource Center Mathematics Bookshelf, this story poses a sequence of problems to be solved, beginning with a simple pattern and developing into a complex situation that older students can analyze using a data table. The story lays the foundation for notions related to functions, though the scenario becomes too complex for students to find a formula.... 614 Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: An entry on the Ohio Resource Center Mathematics Bookshelf, this book is the first volume in a 2-volume series of biographies of famous mathematicians. Each chapter tells the personal story of the mathematician and then describes how discoveries of mathematical ideas relevant to middle grades and high school students were made.... 615 Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: One of a series of Sir Cumference books, this story focuses on nets for solid figures and Euler's formula relating faces, edges, and vertices of polyhedra. Using a multifaceted clue provided by King Arthur, young Vertex solves the puzzle and locates the missing sword, Edgecalibur.... 616 Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–6 Professional Commentary: In this story, young Radius, son of Sir Cumference and Lady Di of Ameter, undertakes a quest, the successful completion of which will earn him his knighthood. With the help of a family heirloom that functions much like a protractor, he is able to locate the elusive King Lell and restore him to the throne of Angleland.... 617 Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: An entry on the Ohio Resource Center Mathematics Bookshelf, this classic book, first published in 1884, instills in students an appreciation for the fact that we infer the nature of the 3-dimensional world we live in from 2-dimensional representations. The author challenges readers to imagine what it would be like living in a 2-dimensional Flatland and how that world would be perceived by its inhabitants.... Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 2–4 Professional Commentary: Children decide how many different sundaes can be made for the class picnic with a given number of ice cream flavors and a given number of toppings. They explore the possible combinations by charting the choices of ice cream and toppings in a tree diagram. As toppings spill and ice cream melts, they investigate the effect on the number of original choices.... 619 One Hundred Hungry Ants Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: An entry on the Ohio Resource Center Mathematics Bookshelf, this book is a charming introduction to the factor pairs of 100. Students can generalize to identify factor pairs of other numbers, find numbers (primes) that have only one pair of factors, and contrast numbers that have an even number of factors with those that have an odd number.... 620 Double the Work: Challenges and Solutions to Acquiring Language and Academic Literacy for Adolescent English Language Learners Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 7–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This professional resource by the Alliance for Excellent Education is the full-text 2007 report on academic literacy and English Language Learners. The overall report provides substantial and overwhelming evidence to increase nationwide academic literacy support to English Language Learners. Six major challenges are identified to improving literacy in adolescent ELLs, then possible solutions for each of the literacy challenges, including profiles of three high school ELL literacy programs, are detailed. The report is a detailed 84-page pdf, though specific parts of the report offer abbreviated summaries and findings.... Projects: Writing 6-12 |