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At 4:36 PM -0500 1/3/03, Madden wrote:
>Hi all!-
>Back from the holidays- hope you all enjoyed your time!  Once again I am
>looking for lesson plans for fifth grade.  I am trying to
>tie my library lessons into the curriculum and so I asked the fifth grade
>teachers what they will be covering for the month of January.
>Electricity, Measurement and Geometry for Math, Building a New Country
>for S.S. , Interpretive Comprehension of the Writing Process and they are
>reading the Phantom Tollbooth.  Please if you have any suggestions on what
>I could do with theses topics it would be more then helpful.
>Thanks in advance!!!
>
>Kathleen Quigley
>Library Media Specialist
>Parliament Place Elementary
>North Babylon, NY
>maddenk@suffolk.lib.ny.us

Beware integrating math with the Phantom Tollbooth (if it is the book
I am remembering). There is a long math problem in it which is done
incorrectly, as it totally ignores order of operations.

There is, however, a very nice little book I read to my 7th and 8th
grade math classes during the time they were taking standardized
tests last year, as a break and a review all at once. The math is
sound, the explanations clear and the writing engaging, especially if
you have a white board or chalk board handy while you are reading. A
math devil invades a boy's dreams and challenges him to think and
understand math, each chapter a different night, a different dream
and a different math concept: _The Math Devil: a Mathematical
Adventure_. I don't have any other information on the book, but thank
you for reminding me about it. Now, I'll have to find it to order for
my libraries.
--
Barbara Adams Currier
K-6 Library Media Teacher
(Former math teacher)
Kirschen/Shackelford Schools
Modesto City Schools

bacurrier@charter.net

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