Brain-Compatible Activities for Mathematics, Grades 4-5
Purchase
Description
"The real-world connection and use of manipulatives, games, and items from home will hook 21st-century learners. I spend a considerable amount of time searching for appropriate lesson ideas. No more! This collection of lessons—across all math standards—provides more than enough resources to enhance my teaching."
—Rachel Hull, Fifth-Grade Teacher
George Washington Elementary School, Eleanor, WV
"This well-organized resource enriches any math curriculum with easy-to-follow and abundant 'out of your seat' activities to engage a variety of learners. The best components are quick formative assessments within each activity that provide an immediate perspective on each child's understanding and progress."
—Jennifer Harper, Fourth-Grade Teacher
Cavendish Town Elementary School, Proctorsville, VT
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 4-5. 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 Scuba Division, Party Planners, Sunken Treasure, and Parachute Drop, intermediate learners will enjoy developing skills connected with multiplication and division, fractions and decimals, geometry and measurement, algebra, data analysis, 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
Links to Focal Points and Standards
About the Author
- 1. Multiplication and Division
- The Mystery of the Mixed-Up Party Lists
- Meet the Fact Family
- Guess-timate Estimates
- Point and Play
- 200 Catch Game
- Blocks of Division
- Words of Division
- Divisibility Dash
- Scuba Division
- Show the Order
- 2. Fractions and Decimals
- Fraction Friends
- Fun With Fractions
- Decimal Days
- Put the Dot on the Spot
- Dollars and Sense
- A Portrait of Parts
- Grocery Bill Math
- Party Planners
- Fraction Cooking
- Calling All Construction Workers
- 3. Geometry and Measurement
- Detective Angle
- Tricky Triangles
- Silly Symmetry
- Trouble at the Tangram Zoo
- Magic Carpets for Sale
- Geo Puppet
- A Hole in the Roof
- From Farm to Factory
- Wrapping Up Math
- 4. Algebra
- Simply, Simplify
- Weigh to Go!
- What's the Score?
- Sunken Treasure
- 5. Data Analysis
- Terrific T's
- Our Favorite Things
- Book Bonanza
- Too Many Ants!
- Survey Study
- Fast Food Comparisons
- Parachute Drop
- Plot the Treasure
- Animal Olympics
Journal Page
Journal Page
Answer Key
Answer Key
Resources
Resources
Additional materials
Description
"The real-world connection and use of manipulatives, games, and items from home will hook 21st-century learners. I spend a considerable amount of time searching for appropriate lesson ideas. No more! This collection of lessons—across all math standards—provides more than enough resources to enhance my teaching."
—Rachel Hull, Fifth-Grade Teacher
George Washington Elementary School, Eleanor, WV
"This well-organized resource enriches any math curriculum with easy-to-follow and abundant 'out of your seat' activities to engage a variety of learners. The best components are quick formative assessments within each activity that provide an immediate perspective on each child's understanding and progress."
—Jennifer Harper, Fourth-Grade Teacher
Cavendish Town Elementary School, Proctorsville, VT
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 4-5. 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 Scuba Division, Party Planners, Sunken Treasure, and Parachute Drop, intermediate learners will enjoy developing skills connected with multiplication and division, fractions and decimals, geometry and measurement, algebra, data analysis, 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
Links to Focal Points and Standards
About the Author
- 1. Multiplication and Division
- The Mystery of the Mixed-Up Party Lists
- Meet the Fact Family
- Guess-timate Estimates
- Point and Play
- 200 Catch Game
- Blocks of Division
- Words of Division
- Divisibility Dash
- Scuba Division
- Show the Order
- 2. Fractions and Decimals
- Fraction Friends
- Fun With Fractions
- Decimal Days
- Put the Dot on the Spot
- Dollars and Sense
- A Portrait of Parts
- Grocery Bill Math
- Party Planners
- Fraction Cooking
- Calling All Construction Workers
- 3. Geometry and Measurement
- Detective Angle
- Tricky Triangles
- Silly Symmetry
- Trouble at the Tangram Zoo
- Magic Carpets for Sale
- Geo Puppet
- A Hole in the Roof
- From Farm to Factory
- Wrapping Up Math
- 4. Algebra
- Simply, Simplify
- Weigh to Go!
- What's the Score?
- Sunken Treasure
- 5. Data Analysis
- Terrific T's
- Our Favorite Things
- Book Bonanza
- Too Many Ants!
- Survey Study
- Fast Food Comparisons
- Parachute Drop
- Plot the Treasure
- Animal Olympics
Journal Page
Journal Page
Answer Key
Answer Key
Resources
Resources
Additional materials
Reviews
December 2009 | 200 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 01/02/2026 | 9781412967877 | $37.95 |
| Lifetime | 01/02/2026 | 9781452272894 | $35.00 |
"The real-world connection and use of manipulatives, games, and items from home will hook 21st-century learners. I spend a considerable amount of time searching for appropriate lesson ideas. No more! This collection of lessons—across all math standards—provides more than enough resources to enhance my teaching."
—Rachel Hull, Fifth-Grade Teacher
George Washington Elementary School, Eleanor, WV
"This well-organized resource enriches any math curriculum with easy-to-follow and abundant 'out of your seat' activities to engage a variety of learners. The best components are quick formative assessments within each activity that provide an immediate perspective on each child's understanding and progress."
—Jennifer Harper, Fourth-Grade Teacher
Cavendish Town Elementary School, Proctorsville, VT
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 4-5. 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 Scuba Division, Party Planners, Sunken Treasure, and Parachute Drop, intermediate learners will enjoy developing skills connected with multiplication and division, fractions and decimals, geometry and measurement, algebra, data analysis, 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
- About the Author
- 1. Multiplication and Division
- The Mystery of the Mixed-Up Party Lists
- Meet the Fact Family
- Guess-timate Estimates
- Point and Play
- 200 Catch Game
- Blocks of Division
- Words of Division
- Divisibility Dash
- Scuba Division
- Show the Order
- 2. Fractions and Decimals
- Fraction Friends
- Fun With Fractions
- Decimal Days
- Put the Dot on the Spot
- Dollars and Sense
- A Portrait of Parts
- Grocery Bill Math
- Party Planners
- Fraction Cooking
- Calling All Construction Workers
- 3. Geometry and Measurement
- Detective Angle
- Tricky Triangles
- Silly Symmetry
- Trouble at the Tangram Zoo
- Magic Carpets for Sale
- Geo Puppet
- A Hole in the Roof
- From Farm to Factory
- Wrapping Up Math
- 4. Algebra
- Simply, Simplify
- Weigh to Go!
- What's the Score?
- Sunken Treasure
- 5. Data Analysis
- Terrific T's
- Our Favorite Things
- Book Bonanza
- Too Many Ants!
- Survey Study
- Fast Food Comparisons
- Parachute Drop
- Plot the Treasure
- Animal Olympics
- Journal Page
- Answer Key
- Resources