Explores technological inventions and key events in American history since 1969, including the moon landing, the rise of cell phones, and Hurricane Katrina.

Contains activities designed to prepare elementary students for future learning in algebra by helping them understand the concept of a variable and how to solve equations.

In this fully revised second edition of the classic Young Children Reinvent Arithmetic, Constance Kamii describes and develops an innovative program of teaching arithmetic in the early elementary grades. Kamii bases her educational strategies on renowned constructivist Jean Piaget's scientific ideas of how children develop logico-mathematical thinking. Written in collaboration with a classroom teacher, and premised upon the conviction that children...