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NCTM
Nashville, TN 11/19/09

Is Math A Mystery? Children's Literature May Be the Solution!
12:30 - 2:00 Dr. Sarah Ann Keller Assistant Professor Tennessee Technological University skeller@tntech.edu

Balliett, B. (2006). //The Wright 3//. New York: Scholastic, Inc. Balliett,B. (2008). //The Calder game//. New York: Scholastic, Inc.**
 * Balliett, B. (2004) //Chasing Vermeer//. New York: Scholastic, Inc.

These three books by author Blue Balliett lend themselves to many applications within the school core curriculum and promote development of critical thinking skills. Math Concepts addressed: geometric patterns, tessellations, rotations, geometric shapes in architecture, codes, and puzzle solving. Unit and lesson plans using these books incorporate interdisciplinary connections allowing teachers to easily transfer these concepts to classroom practice.

I hope you enjoyed the workshop at NCTM 2009 in Nashville! If you would like to have the PowerPoint presentation from the session, please email me at the above email address. I will try to attach and send it to you. I did attach a zip file with the pictures of each slide, but it is not the actual PowerPoint file. (The pptx file is too large to submit to this WIKI site!)