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A little Bag Ladies magic makes math language fun! Integrate math language into your elementary classroom with these hands-on activities. Students learn national math standard skills as part of literature-based make-n-take projects. Projects, ideas, literature links, and blackline masters make this a must-have resource that enriches the language-arts block and helps you teach the language of math to all your students. Sprinkle some Bag Ladies magic in your classroom and watch how well students master the language of math.

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When I was browsing through all that Maupin House had to offer, I really was thinking in my head that I really wanted to find some new creative ideas for making math FUN. Cheeky is obviously not even in Kindergarten yet, but he loves hands on learning and counting, and my same ol' projects just weren't cutting it anymore...I needed fresh ideas! The Bag Ladies certainly delivered everything I was looking for! Each project idea is set up with a photograph, detailed supply list and a step-by-step instruction of how to create each manipulative. An added bonus to EACH project lesson plan is an extensions section where they have offered up ideas on how you can expand on the idea! LOVE it! Another fantastic feature to each project is that they have included the NCTM Standards used in the manipulative! I love this feature because if I am wanting to work on a certain skill, it has the information readily available for me to see what will be covered with that project idea! Not only are the project ideas fantastic for a HUGE range of ages, the Bag Ladies have gone ABOVE and beyond and even included a Suggested Literature list towards the front of the book. They listed a book to coordinate with each project! There are project ideas for math games, creating fun manipulatives (no more expensive counting bears or other items here!) AND they have included all of the black line pattern sheets that you will need for graphs, diagrams and more that coordinate with each of the manipulatives! The book has a wide range of project ideas for ages K-5th, so I know that this book will remain in our classroom for years to come and will get a TON of use! -Gabby, The Work of Childhood blog, www.workofchildhood.com (December 2009)-- The Work of Childhood blog, www.workofchildhood.com

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An educator in Palm Beach County for 18 years, Cindy Guinn has taught all elementary grades, as well as serving as primary resource specialist for three years. Cindy has been nominated for the Dwyer Award for Excellence in Education, the Florida League of Teachers in 1999, and was recently nominated and featured as the Palm Beach Post's Teacher of the Week. Cindy and Karen Simmons started the Bag Ladies in 1993. Both believe in the value of keeping teachers excited and full of creative ideas. Since then, they have created 13 thematic units and presented make-n-take manipulative workshops in schools and at conferences in Florida. Their easy and inexpensive make-n-takes give teachers inexpensive and fun tools to create integrated thematic units.

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