601 Literacy Instruction in the Content Areas: Getting to the Core of Middle and High School Improvement Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 7–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This professional resource is the 2007 publication of a 48-page pdf full-text literacy report from the Alliance for Excellent Education. The report emphasizes that the "real goal [of content literacy instruction] is to help all students master the knowledge, procedures, and skills of the academic disciplines that rule the secondary school curriculum, and which serve as the gatekeeper to success in college, work, and other facets of adult life." The next step for those working to improve adolescent literacy instruction, the report concludes, must be "to integrate the teaching of reading and writing more fully into the academic content areas." An executive summary introduces the report, and four sections lend substantial support to the report's call for action: (1) Adolescent Literacy Reform: Expanding the Agenda; (2) Rethinking the Role of Literacy in the Content Areas; (3) Rethinking Teacher Quality: Taking Content Area Literacy Instruction into Account; and (4) Key Considerations for Education Leaders and Policymakers.... Projects: Writing 6-12 602 On Beyond a Million: An Amazing Math Journey Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: An entry on the Ohio Resource Center Mathematics Bookshelf, this book is an engaging introduction to powers of ten, exponential notation, huge numbers, nonsense "numbers" (like gazillion), and infinity. The dialogue reflects common misconceptions and corrects them (e.g., Have we reached infinity yet? [discussion] Infinity ...... 603 The Grapes of Math: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–4 Professional Commentary: An entry on the Ohio Resource Center Mathematics Bookshelf, this book is one of a series of books by Gregory Tang designed to encourage students to use efficient and creative counting and addition strategies. The illustrations lend themselves to different solutions so students can describe and defend the ones they prefer.... 604 Math For All Seasons: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: The 16 simple counting problems presented in this book are illustrated to suggest multiple ways of arriving at a total. Arranged by seasons, the problems can be used individually across the school year, or the book taken as a whole can encourage students to look for more efficient ways to count.... 605 Spaghetti and Meatballs for All!: A Mathematical Story Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–6 Professional Commentary: An entry on the Ohio Resource Center Mathematics Bookshelf, this book provides students with a real-life context for investigating variation in perimeter while area remains constant. In the story, small tables are pushed together to make one large table, until too many people show up, and the large table has to be subdivided into smaller arrangements to provide more seating.... 606 If You Hopped Like a Frog Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: An entry on the Ohio Resource Center Mathematics Bookshelf, this book uses the astounding capabilities of various animals to introduce the idea of ratio and motivate proportional reasoning in middle grades students. For example, "If you hopped like a frog, you could jump from home plate to first base in one mighty leap.... 607 One Grain Of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–10 Professional Commentary: Entries on the Ohio Resource Center Mathematics Bookshelf, the books One Grain of Rice and The King's Chessboard tell the same classic tale of the astounding effect of doubling a single grain of rice each day over a period of 30 days. In The King's Chessboard the protagonist is a wise man and the quantity of rice is analyzed in terms of weight.... Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–10 Professional Commentary: Entries on the Ohio Resource Center Mathematics Bookshelf, the books One Grain of Rice and The King's Chessboard tell the same classic tale of the astounding effect of doubling a single grain of rice each day over a period of 30 days. In The King's Chessboard the protagonist is a wise man and the quantity of rice is analyzed in terms of weight.... 609 Math-terpieces: The Art of Problem-Solving Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–4 Professional Commentary: An entry on the Ohio Resource Center Mathematics Bookshelf, this book uses classic paintings by Degas, Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, van Gogh, Seurat, Matisse, Picasso, Mondrian, Dali, Pollock, and Warhol to provide contexts for students to recognize sums of two or more numbers that equal 7, 8, 9, or 10. Students who can flexibly group and re-group objects will delight in identifying all the combinations suggested by the author.... 610 Math Fables: Lessons That Count Resource Type: Professional Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: An entry on the Ohio Resource Center Mathematics Bookshelf, this book uses simple rhyming verses to illustrate the decomposition of numbers from 2 to 10 into subgroups of different sizes, foreshadowing the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Each verse ends with a "life lesson" that connects mathematics to other subject areas.... |