Excel Math Tour

Teachers' Edition
Lesson Plan & Resources

Objectives

Each lesson plan begins with a briefly stated objective. The same objectives also appear at the top left corner of the Lesson Sheets, and in the Scope and Sequence list at the front of the Teacher’s Edition. This is for your use, as well as the students.

Preparation

The preparation section spells out what you need to do to prepare for your class session. If the list begins with

For the entire class: then you need one or two sets of items for demonstration from the front of the classroom. If it says

For each student: then you need one set of items for each of your students, or sometimes for each pair of students.

Most of the items required will be reused, so you may wish to save them in plastic bags or containers.

Lesson Plan

The lesson section gives you some hints on teaching the lesson. These are not intended to walk you through every second of the math instruction, but to help you introduce the subject to the class.

Stretches & Activities

These activities are brain teasers or thought-provoking exercises for your students. We recommend you put this up so they can see and ponder it outside the normal math class time. The Stretches teach various kinds of thinking skills. Like the rest of Excel Math, they spiral through these concepts, becoming more difficult as the year progresses. (Kindergarten and First Grade have activities with the lessons, rather than Stretches).

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