Teaching Subtraction Using LEGO® Bricks - Couverture souple

Disseler, Dr. Shirley

 
9781938406676: Teaching Subtraction Using LEGO® Bricks

Synopsis

In Teaching Subtraction Using LEGO® Bricks, Dr. Shirley Disseler has developed activities that work to help students learn how to subtract, using a common toy available in most classrooms andhomes—LEGO® bricks! Young children have their first experiences with subtraction early, when they play games of giving some items and keeping other items. As they attach the concept of subtraction to mathematicaloperations, they learn important vocabulary words (minuend, subtrahend, difference). Later, repeated subtraction leads to understanding division. In this book, the hands-on activities using LEGO® bricks help students learn:• start unknown subtraction• change unknown subtraction• result unknown subtraction• comparisons• decomposing numbers and place value The book starts at the most basic concepts and focuses on a specific topic in each chapter. Most students learn these concepts between grades K - 2. Using LEGO® bricks to model math provides a universal language. Children everywhere recognize this manipulative.It’s fun to learn when you’re using LEGO® bricks!

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À propos de l?auteur

Dr. Shirley Disseler is Associate Professor at High Point University and Chair of the Department of Elementary and Middle Grades Education, and the STEM Coordinator for the BA to MEd Program. She has over 25 years of educational experience, from elementary school teaching through higher education, including gifted education and exceptional children. Disseler is a LEGO® Education Academy Trainer, and serves as the LEGO® Math Expert for Elementary Curriculum Development. She has been instrumental in the development and testing of the LearnToLearn, MoreToMath, and WeDo 2.0 products developed in Billund, Denmark. She serves on the LEGO® Education Ambassadors Panel and is the trainer for the High Point University Teacher Academy for LEGO® Education. Disseler is the author of Strategies and Activities for Common Core Math, Parts 1 & 2, and conducts research on engagement and creativity in mathematics classrooms. She offers consulting in manipulative mathematics, active learning, classroom management, and learning with LEGO® bricks.

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