How Far Away

 Missing Number Puzzles

"It Makes Sense! Using the Hundreds Chart to Build Number Sense provides teachers with engaging activities based on important mathematical ideas; clear and concise lessons structured with the "introduce, explore, summarize" format; questions and tips to guide, assess, and extend student thinking; and on-the-spot professional development in the form of Teacher Reflections and A Child's Mind. This resource is an important companion text to any math program!"

Karen Economopoulos, Codirector
Investigations in Number, Data and Space

"It Makes Sense! Using the Hundreds Chart to Build Number Sense is a superb resource for teachers! The content is rich, focused on the big ideas of mathematics, appropriate for young students, and conceptually based. The teaching methods are carefully detailed; it is obvious that these are lessons that have been taught to real children in real settings. Melissa and Stephanie have done a masterful job of describing what teaching for understanding really means."

Juanita V. Copley
Professor Emerita, University of Houston

"I've used the activities in It Makes Sense! numerous times in my class. Having the visual of the hundreds chart is very helpful for my students. My students now have a grasp of sequencing, patterns, addition, subtraction, and the relationship between the numbers. Th rough repeated practice, they are able to internalize these skills, all while having fun playing a game."

Shannon Sullivan
First Grade Team Leader/ESL Coordinator
Eickenroht Elementary, Houston, Texas

"It Makes Sense! Using the Hundreds Chart to Build Number Sense . . . and I couldn't agree more! In a primary math classroom, is there any other tool that is more important and appropriate than the hundreds chart? Melissa and Stephanie have teamed together again to provide teachers with engaging lessons accessible to all! Your students build, navigate, investigate, and communicate their way to a stronger sense of numbers. I am not sure if you can find many first graders who wouldn't love to build a wacky hundreds chart and then talk about it with their peers. What a fabulous resource for educators!"

Beth Terry
Math Specialist, Alexandria City Public Schools
Virginia, 2004 PAEMST Awardee—Colorado

"This rich resource provides teachers with easy-to-implement lessons that help children use the hundreds chart to develop key base-ten number concepts—an important thread that runs through the K–5 Common Core Standards. Not only does this book offer engaging activities that can be used with any textbook series, but it also comes with ideas for homework, technology connections, and tips for supporting language learners. It Makes Sense! is at the top of my list when recommending math resources that support number sense development."

Rusty Bresser
Lecturer and Supervisor of Teacher Education at the University of California, San Diego and Co-author of Developing Number Sense, Grades 3–6