Best Selling Books by Marilyn Burns

Grades 5-6: In this book, Marilyn Burns tackles the topic of how to teach students to multiply and divide fractions -- and understand what they are doing. Through the lessons in this book, students build conceptual understanding of multiplying and dividing fractions as they develop proficiency. And teachers report that -- for the first time -- students really understand the underlying rationale for how we multiply and divide fractions and mixed numbers. - Publisher.

Lessons and activities show how multiplication relates to repeated addition and geometry.

Support mathematical understanding in your instructional program through this rich collection of easy-to-use teaching resources. Each book focuses on a specific arithmetic topic and offers a series of classroom-tested lessons addressing the three important aspects of arithmetic instruction--computation, number sense, and problem solving. The lessons include step-by-step directions, amount of time needed, materials required, classroom vignettes, samples of student work, reproducibles, and a discussion of the math underlying the lesson.

When two sisters have to move into the same room, they use tape to divide the room into different shapes so that each one can have her own space. Includes related activities.

Support mathematical understanding in your instructional program through this rich collection of easy-to-use teaching resources. Each book focuses on a specific arithmetic topic and offers a series of classroom-tested lessons addressing the three important aspects of arithmetic instruction--computation, number sense, and problem solving. The lessons include step-by-step directions, amount of time needed, materials required, classroom vignettes, samples of student work, reproducibles, and a discussion of the math underlying the lesson.

A young boy uses different kinds of charts and graphs to present information about his life. Includes related activities.

When a little boy insists he wants more of everything served to him for breakfast, his sister obliges by rearranging what he has. Includes section with related activities.

Fanny essaie de suivre les instructions pour faire une tirelire en papier mâché, mais ne fait que tout rater... jusqu''à ce qu''elle apprenne à se servir d''une tasse à mesurer! Une amusante introduction aux mesures.

Lizzy wants to be helpful and so jumps into action by preparing things for her cousin''s party, yet nearly everything she did had good meaning but the wrong results, in a funny easy reader with colorful illustrations. Original.

A follow-up book to Monster Math finds endearing monsters sharing rollicking times as they spell at nine o''clock, enjoy show-and-tell at ten o''clock, and more. Original.

Each letter of the alphabet is assigned a value (a=$0.01, b=$0.02, up to z=$0.26). Then add the values of each letter to find the $1 word.

Liz the Whiz and her younger brother use codes, a chart, and a map of the backyard that matches a clock face to solve Zack''s mystery. Includes a section with related activities.

Presents instructions for 40 magic tricks.

Ten monsters have ten cents apiece to buy a pet in this rhyming story that demonstrates how to count money. Includes math activities.

Cara and her two younger brothers have fun using multiplication to make a very unusual soup for the family dinner.

A young boy learns how important it is to know just how long a minute is. Includes a section with related activities.

Traditional Chinese Edition of [Amanda bean''s Amazing Dream]

A little girl uses sorting and classifying skills to tackle the huge mess in her room. Includes related activities and games.

Lost No More is dedicated to the lost souls who struggle daily to find a way to a life free of drugs and alcohol. It is a story about how a mother''s spiritual belief system helped her to survive the untimely death of her son . To embrace the belief that life is full of challenges and things happen for a reason, offers support to the reader whose life has been impacted by addiction. Lost No More will touch your heart and offer strength for those who are trying to find a way to live without someone they love.

Using 11 story books, this collection presents 11 literature-based lessons for grades K-3 (book one) that link mathematics with literature.

Each book contains a collection of activities to use with a specific math manipulative including base ten blocks, color tiles, cuisenaire rods, geoboards, pattern blocks, snap cubes and tangrams.

Grade level: 4, 5, 6, e, i, t.

Offers inspiring, practical, classroom-tested ideas for helping students learn mathematics through problem solving.

Jessica worries about collecting 100 objects to take to class for the 100th day of school.