Barbara J. Feldman

Grades 3-4Grocery shopping offers opportunities for children to increase their estimation and measurement skills by choosing and weighing fruit and vegetables. … [Read more...] about Weighing In

Kindergarten-Grade 1Grocery shopping offers opportunities to let children apply a range of mathematics skills, including data collection and estimation. … [Read more...] about Ready, Set, Shop!

The grocery store is one of the best examples of a place where the ability to use mathematics is put to work in the "real world."It's a great place to practice measurement and estimation and to learn about volume and quantity and their relationships to the sizes and shapes of … [Read more...] about One Potato, Two Potatoes

Grades 3-5A shape is symmetrical if it can be cut along a straight line into two halves that are mirror images of each other. Learning about symmetry gives children a good sense of geometric principles and calls on their mathematical reasoning abilities. … [Read more...] about Simply Symmetrical

Grades 2-3In introducing children to the concept of fractions—numbers that aren't whole numbers (such as 1/2, 1/3 and 1/4)—it's often a good idea to use objects that they can see and touch. … [Read more...] about Fraction Action