Brain-Compatible Activities for Mathematics, Grades 4-5

Drawing from Dr. David A. Sousa's book How the Brain Learns Mathematics (not included), this user-friendly resource provides ready-to-use mathematics lessons for fourth and fifth grade classrooms. Step-by-step lessons feature an objective, introduction, modeling, understanding check, guided practice, lesson closing, and homework. Through activities such as Scuba Division, Party Planners, Sunken Treasure, and Parachute Drop young learners will enjoy developing skills connected with multiplication, division, fractions, decimals geometry, measurement, geometry, algebra, data analysis, and more. Activities are designed to address individual intelligences, use concrete models to help make concepts meaningful, connect math to the real world, and teach creative problem solving.

200 pages. Reproducible activity pages included. Aligned with NCTM standards and focal points. Line-listed answer key provided. Grades 4-5.