At long last a guide to planning and implementing integrated lesson plans has been created!

This pathfinder was designed to take math and integrate it with other subjects. Inside this pamphlet you will find lessons and activities that join math with children's story books, geography, language arts, science, art, and cooperative learning.

Integrating subject matter is a holistic approach to education. All the subjects listed above are integrally woven in children's everyday life outside the classroom. So why teach these subjects in isolation? The integration of subject matter enriches learning and makes it more meaningful to students because it teaches fewer things in greater depth which leads to greater student understanding.

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/Math.htm
Select the desired grade level and scroll down to the end to see lessons that integrate math with music, language arts, social studies, and science.

http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/searchresults.asp?category=55
Great math lessons that involve physical activity

http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/lessons/
This site has a few ideas for subject integration.

Math & Children's Literature

Storytime Math Time: Math explorations in children's literature. By Patricia Satariano
Grades 1-3
Learn to speak the language of math through cherished children's stories. The goal of this book is to help students become mathematically powerful. There are 67 math exploration activities based on 18 stories. These stories will make it easy and fun for teachers and students to integrate math into literature.

30 Wild and Wonderful Math Stories To Develop Problem Solving Skills. By Dan Greenberg
Grades 4-8
This book promises to show a good time . . . even when dealing with fractions, geometry, patterns, and averages. The lessons, which are in the form of stories, will engage, challenge, and stimulate students. This book is especially good for students who have motivational problems.

Do-It-Yourself Math Stories! By Allyne Brumbaugh
Grades 2-5
Remember how much fun it was to play MAD-LIBS? This publication is a similar type that needs to be created and then solved. Use the riddles and stories to spice up the world of problem solving!

Math & Art!

Math Arts! By MaryAnn F. Kohl & Cindy Gainer
Grades K-1
This book will help young students increase their awareness of math concepts through art in the everyday world around them. Students will learn about matching, sorting, patterns, sequence, spatial relationships, and number values. Students will cut, paste, and glue their way into a better basic understanding of the mathematical world.

Tangram Patterns By Thomas E. Foster
This book is worth checking out. Tangrams are ancient Chinese puzzles that were used to form the shape of a character or element in a story. Mathematically, they teach about problem solving, size, shape, congruence, symmetry, area, property of polygons, etc. The purpose of this book is to provide a collection of tangram patterns that can be reproduced for the classroom. It will be easy to see how tangrams will lend themselves to the arts.

Curr/Ref
Math
S349
1994

Curr/Ref
Math
K79m
1996

Curr/Ref
Math
F757
1977

Curr/Ref
Math
G795
1992

Curr/Ref
Math
SC976
1994

Math & Science

Fall Into Math & Science K-1 AIMS
It will be easy to fall in love with this resource because of its method of hands-on teaching. It is also full of lesson plans complete with reproducibles. Topics covered include: observing, sorting, predicting, counting, measuring, patterns, and more. For a hands-on approach--check this book out!

Pieces & Patterns--A Patchwork in Math and Science. AIMS
Grades 5-9
As is the AIMS tradition, students will learn addition, geometry, percent, probability, symmetry, predicting, estimating, how to draw conclusions, etc . . . and they’ll like it. Creatively designed hands- on lessons will leave them thirsting for more.

Floaters and Sinkers: Solutions for Math and Science
This book was specifically designed to integrate math and science to make learning more meaningful. Investigate, hypothesize, predict, and discover. This is a great way to teach! This book is full of ready to use lesson plans that will have your class doing experiment after experiment.

Curr/Ref
Science
F194f
1987

Curr/Ref
Math
H651p
1986

Cooperative Learning & Math

Cooperative Learning In Math: Skill oriented activities that encourage working together. By Bob Bernstein
Grades 3-8
The activities that are presented in this book are designed to encourage students to reach out and to help one another. As students work on math problems they will be engaged in important life skills such as communicating, listening, and problem solving.

Cooperative Learning and Mathematics: A Multi-Structural Approach. By Beth Andrini
Grades K-8
This book provides extremely rich lessons that have been field tested and refined. This book provides an easy step-by-step format that will make lessons easy to implement. Because students will work cooperatively with their peers to problem-solve, it makes math time a fun and meaningful time.

Lessons For Little Ones: Mathematics. By Lorna Curran
Grades K-2
Interested in 36 ready to use lessons that integrate math, literature, social skills, and management tips? These lessons allow students to acquire and strengthen primary math skills like counting, patterning, graphing, addition, and subtraction. This set of lessons is very easy to implement and is perfect for any teacher to pick up and use.

Curr/Ref
Math
B531
1993

Curr/Ref
Math
A573m
1996

Math & Geography

Math Around the World: Math and Geography Enrichment Activities for the Middle Grades. By Embry & Bobo
The goal of this book is to provide knowledge of world geography. Teach students about continents, countries, capitals, rivers, and mountains while prompting an interest in world travel. It will give students the desire to do independent research as well as enrich their basic math skills.

Curr/Ref
Math
B663
1991

Manipulatives

We have tons of math manipulatives that will fit just about every lesson. Here are just a few--check them out!

Tangrams Enough for 10 - 12 students. Great for working in pairs!

Magic Mosaic Building instructions included.

Fractions are as Easy as Pie! Includes teacher's manual and 6 pies

Measuring Cups Teach lesson that involve cooking & measuring!

Geoboard Activity Cards Ideas that teach geometry

Geoboards Enough for 8 students.

Money Match Me A fun game that reinforces money concepts.

Curr/TA
Math 99

Curr/TA
Math 93

Curr/TA
Math 30

Children's Books

Grandfather Tang’s Story By Ann Tompert
This is a lovely tale told using tangrams, the ancient Chinese puzzles. Tangrams are geometric shapes that can be used to teach many mathematical concepts. In this book Little Soo is being told a story by her grandfather about fox fairies. Her grandfather arranges the tangram puzzle pieces to look like the characters in the story. Your students will love to see what kinds of things they can make with tangrams when the story is finished!

Math Curse By Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith
A little girl goes to school one day and her teacher says, “You know, you can think of almost everything as a math problem.” From that moment on, she is cursed. “What happens when you have 10 things to do and only 30 minutes before your bus leaves in the morning? And why can’t you keep 10 cookies without someone taking away three?” Find out the answers to these and more as you journey along with the little girl in Math Curse. Just be careful, the curse may be contagious!

Curr/Ref
Math
T662
1990

Children
Folio
Easy
S416m

Curr/TA
Math 58

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Math 85-6

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Math 134

Curr/TA
Math 263

Pathfinders

Numbers can be fun! A guide to fun and exciting math activities.
By Staci Pilimai

Money This pathfinder will lead you to resources that provide basic money math skills as well as realistic application of real world money problems.
By Jill Summerhays

Geometry is all around us. This pathfinder will lead you to find geometry EVERYWHERE! It promises to to help students visualize important concepts and make math lessons fun.
By Harmony Vanhille

Math Posters

Remember to browse through the Posters! We have dozens of math posters that cover just about every concept, including “Math is Everywhere with Reading Rainbow.” A poster may be the perfect thing to spice up your math lesson.

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