Most Popular Books by Marilyn Burns

Describes when, why, and how people started to measure time and discusses such topics as time zones, biorhythms, and jet lag. Also includes instructions for a variety of related projects.

Text, illustrations, and suggested activities offer a common-sense approach to mathematic fundamentals for those who are slightly terrified of numbers.

Count how many monsters are playing each of the different games at the monster math picnic!

David and Kristy learn how to play fair in this story that you can read yourself!

"Includes conversations with Marilyn"--Cover.

Traditional Chinese Edition of [The Greedy Triangle]

Les chiffres de 1 à 10 avec des monstres en pique-nique : huit jouent dans la boue, deux dans le sable, sept courent après ... etc. L''histoire présente également des combinaisons séquentielles où les éléments des équations changent d''une unité à la fois.

The lessons in this book introduce basic algebraic concepts to students in the primary grades. Manipulative materials, problem-solving investigations, games, and real-world and imaginary contexts support arithmetic learning while introducing ideas basic to algebra, including patterns, equivalence, and graphing.

The Marilyn Burns Fraction Kit, Grades 4–6 is recommended to help implement the lessons in this book."--pub. desc.

Traditional Chinese Edition of [A Cloak for the Dreamer]

Traditional Chinese Edition of [The King''s Commissioners]

Multiplication, Grade 3 presents a five-week unit of instruction that shows teachers how to help children construct their own understanding of multiplication. Teachers learn how to approach multiplication instruction from a variety of perspectives -- geometric, numerical, and real-life situations. The unit includes activities from the strands of probability, statistics, patterns and functions, and geometry. Book jacket.

Three pigs acquire some magic shapes, which they use for various purposes, some smart and some not so smart

This set of grade 5 math resources covers multiplication and division word problems; perimeter and area; addition and subtraction of whole numbers and decimals; circles, polygons, and angles; addition and subtraction with fractions; volume, capacity, and weight; multiplication and division with whole numbers and decimals; algebra, functions, and graphs; multiplication and division with fractions; patterns and transformations; ratio, proportion, and percent; three-dimensional figures.

Traditional Chinese edition of Spaghetti And Meatballs For All! (Scholastic Bookshelf: Math Skills) an illustrated storybook on area and perimeter for third and fourth graders. In Traditional Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Amanda loves to count everything, but not until she has an amazing dream does she finally realize that being able to multiply will help her count things faster.

A collection of 25 books are featured with instructions on how to use each title to launch a classroom math lesson.

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.