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| Journal Articles | 6 |
| Reports - Descriptive | 3 |
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Burns, Marilyn – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Presents two writing activities for math class that help students explore contexts for multiplication and write multiplication stories. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
Burns, Marilyn – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1990
Describes a game whose goal is to make the largest three or four digit number possible from numbers appearing on successive rolls of a die. Discusses the written strategies developed for this game by third and seventh grade students. (RS)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Games, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools
Burns, Marilyn – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1991
Describes a learning strategy which asks students to write questions that can be answered from the information posted on a graph that they created. (MG)
Descriptors: Graphs, Intermediate Grades, Learning Strategies, Mathematics Instruction
Burns, Marilyn – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1993
Describes an activity used with a fifth-grade mathematics class in which students solved a problem and wrote a convincing argument to prove their solution made sense. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Burns, Marilyn – Writing Notebook: Creative Word Processing in the Classroom, 1991
Shares a writing activity in which students create riddles to define a particular number. (MG)
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Mathematics
Burns, Marilyn – Writing Notebook: Visions for Learning, 1992
Describes two activities in a second-grade class that use drawing and writing to explore fractions. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Elementary School Mathematics, Fractions
