Brain-Compatible Activities for Mathematics, Grades 2-3
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Description
"All math teachers will find lessons and activities that provide meaningful instruction while making mathematics more enjoyable to students. This book gives teachers the structure to plan appropriate, fun-filled lessons of their own."
—Dixon D. Van Hook, Math Coach
Cross Creek Elementary School, Thomasville, GA
"Provides hands-on activities that follow the structure of effective lesson design. Whether you are a seasoned teacher looking for activities to expand your repertoire or a new teacher building a library of resources, this book is an essential planning tool."
—Holly Savoie, Third-Grade Teacher
Mimosa Park Elementary School, Luling, LA
Imaginative mathematics activities that maximize the brain's learning potential!
Demonstrating instructional principles discussed in David A. Sousa's bestseller, How the Brain Learns Mathematics, this resource provides brain-friendly, ready-to-use mathematics lessons for Grades 2–3. Teachers will find step-by-step guidance and all the necessary reproducibles for mathematics instruction that involves group work, reflection, movement, and visualization. Through activities such as Jumping Jelly Beans, Math Hockey, and Treasure Hunt, young learners will enjoy developing skills connected with number patterns and place value, multi-digit addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions, measurement, geometry, and more.
Aligned with NCTM standards and focal points, the instructional strategies enhance motivation and content retention, address individual intelligences, and:
- Promote writing as an important learning tool
- Use concrete models to make concepts meaningful
- Connect mathematical ideas to the real world
- Incorporate graphic organizers to help students organize their thinking
- Teach creative problem solving
Deepen and revitalize instruction using Sousa's proven brain-compatible approach for helping every student develop self-confidence in mathematics!
Contents
Introduction
Introduction
Links to Focal Points and Standards
- 1. Base-Ten and Place Value
- Jumping Jellybeans
- Hundred Board-O
- Order Up!
- Number Neighborhood
- Stretching Numbers
- Place Value Pause
- Place Value Bingo
- 2. Multi-Digit Addition and Subtraction
- Sum Roll
- Ball Toss
- Math Hockey
- Fact Family Trees
- 3. Multiplication and Division
- Tray Arrays
- Grape Groups
- Button Fact Families
- Opposites Attract
- Show Me the Money!
- Draw and Divide
- 4. Fractions
- Fruity Fractions
- Pieces of Pizza
- Treasure Hunt
- Take a Bigger Bite!
- Fraction Cookie Bars
- 5. Measurement
- Measuring Tools
- Measure Mania
- Me and My Shadow
- Tic-Tac-Time
- Race for Time!
- Pour It Out
- Measurement Scavenger Hunt
- Measure My Classroom
- Box It!
- 6. Geometry
- Name My Shape
- Shape Stories
- Shape-y Shake-y
- Pattern Block Party
- Letter Perfect Symmetry
- We?re Congruent
- Polygon Art
- Shape Sort
- 7. Data Analysis
- Let It Roll
- Counting Candy
- A Day at the Zoo
- Button Bonanza
- Weather Watchers
- Picture Perfect
- Hot and Cold
- Eye-Catching Graphs
- Survey Says
Journal Page
Journal Page
Answer Key
Answer Key
References
References
Additional materials
Description
"All math teachers will find lessons and activities that provide meaningful instruction while making mathematics more enjoyable to students. This book gives teachers the structure to plan appropriate, fun-filled lessons of their own."
—Dixon D. Van Hook, Math Coach
Cross Creek Elementary School, Thomasville, GA
"Provides hands-on activities that follow the structure of effective lesson design. Whether you are a seasoned teacher looking for activities to expand your repertoire or a new teacher building a library of resources, this book is an essential planning tool."
—Holly Savoie, Third-Grade Teacher
Mimosa Park Elementary School, Luling, LA
Imaginative mathematics activities that maximize the brain's learning potential!
Demonstrating instructional principles discussed in David A. Sousa's bestseller, How the Brain Learns Mathematics, this resource provides brain-friendly, ready-to-use mathematics lessons for Grades 2–3. Teachers will find step-by-step guidance and all the necessary reproducibles for mathematics instruction that involves group work, reflection, movement, and visualization. Through activities such as Jumping Jelly Beans, Math Hockey, and Treasure Hunt, young learners will enjoy developing skills connected with number patterns and place value, multi-digit addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions, measurement, geometry, and more.
Aligned with NCTM standards and focal points, the instructional strategies enhance motivation and content retention, address individual intelligences, and:
- Promote writing as an important learning tool
- Use concrete models to make concepts meaningful
- Connect mathematical ideas to the real world
- Incorporate graphic organizers to help students organize their thinking
- Teach creative problem solving
Deepen and revitalize instruction using Sousa's proven brain-compatible approach for helping every student develop self-confidence in mathematics!
Contents
Introduction
Introduction
Links to Focal Points and Standards
- 1. Base-Ten and Place Value
- Jumping Jellybeans
- Hundred Board-O
- Order Up!
- Number Neighborhood
- Stretching Numbers
- Place Value Pause
- Place Value Bingo
- 2. Multi-Digit Addition and Subtraction
- Sum Roll
- Ball Toss
- Math Hockey
- Fact Family Trees
- 3. Multiplication and Division
- Tray Arrays
- Grape Groups
- Button Fact Families
- Opposites Attract
- Show Me the Money!
- Draw and Divide
- 4. Fractions
- Fruity Fractions
- Pieces of Pizza
- Treasure Hunt
- Take a Bigger Bite!
- Fraction Cookie Bars
- 5. Measurement
- Measuring Tools
- Measure Mania
- Me and My Shadow
- Tic-Tac-Time
- Race for Time!
- Pour It Out
- Measurement Scavenger Hunt
- Measure My Classroom
- Box It!
- 6. Geometry
- Name My Shape
- Shape Stories
- Shape-y Shake-y
- Pattern Block Party
- Letter Perfect Symmetry
- We?re Congruent
- Polygon Art
- Shape Sort
- 7. Data Analysis
- Let It Roll
- Counting Candy
- A Day at the Zoo
- Button Bonanza
- Weather Watchers
- Picture Perfect
- Hot and Cold
- Eye-Catching Graphs
- Survey Says
Journal Page
Journal Page
Answer Key
Answer Key
References
References
Additional materials
Reviews
November 2009 | 200 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 01/02/2026 | 9781412967853 | $37.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/02/2026 | 9781452272887 | $35.00 |
"All math teachers will find lessons and activities that provide meaningful instruction while making mathematics more enjoyable to students. This book gives teachers the structure to plan appropriate, fun-filled lessons of their own."
—Dixon D. Van Hook, Math Coach
Cross Creek Elementary School, Thomasville, GA
"Provides hands-on activities that follow the structure of effective lesson design. Whether you are a seasoned teacher looking for activities to expand your repertoire or a new teacher building a library of resources, this book is an essential planning tool."
—Holly Savoie, Third-Grade Teacher
Mimosa Park Elementary School, Luling, LA
Imaginative mathematics activities that maximize the brain's learning potential!
Demonstrating instructional principles discussed in David A. Sousa's bestseller, How the Brain Learns Mathematics, this resource provides brain-friendly, ready-to-use mathematics lessons for Grades 2–3. Teachers will find step-by-step guidance and all the necessary reproducibles for mathematics instruction that involves group work, reflection, movement, and visualization. Through activities such as Jumping Jelly Beans, Math Hockey, and Treasure Hunt, young learners will enjoy developing skills connected with number patterns and place value, multi-digit addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions, measurement, geometry, and more.
Aligned with NCTM standards and focal points, the instructional strategies enhance motivation and content retention, address individual intelligences, and:
- Promote writing as an important learning tool
- Use concrete models to make concepts meaningful
- Connect mathematical ideas to the real world
- Incorporate graphic organizers to help students organize their thinking
- Teach creative problem solving
Deepen and revitalize instruction using Sousa's proven brain-compatible approach for helping every student develop self-confidence in mathematics!
Table Of Contents:
- Introduction
- Links to Focal Points and Standards
- 1. Base-Ten and Place Value
- Jumping Jellybeans
- Hundred Board-O
- Order Up!
- Number Neighborhood
- Stretching Numbers
- Place Value Pause
- Place Value Bingo
- 2. Multi-Digit Addition and Subtraction
- Sum Roll
- Ball Toss
- Math Hockey
- Fact Family Trees
- 3. Multiplication and Division
- Tray Arrays
- Grape Groups
- Button Fact Families
- Opposites Attract
- Show Me the Money!
- Draw and Divide
- 4. Fractions
- Fruity Fractions
- Pieces of Pizza
- Treasure Hunt
- Take a Bigger Bite!
- Fraction Cookie Bars
- 5. Measurement
- Measuring Tools
- Measure Mania
- Me and My Shadow
- Tic-Tac-Time
- Race for Time!
- Pour It Out
- Measurement Scavenger Hunt
- Measure My Classroom
- Box It!
- 6. Geometry
- Name My Shape
- Shape Stories
- Shape-y Shake-y
- Pattern Block Party
- Letter Perfect Symmetry
- We?re Congruent
- Polygon Art
- Shape Sort
- 7. Data Analysis
- Let It Roll
- Counting Candy
- A Day at the Zoo
- Button Bonanza
- Weather Watchers
- Picture Perfect
- Hot and Cold
- Eye-Catching Graphs
- Survey Says
- Journal Page
- Answer Key
- References