Let’s Get Started

Kim’s new book, Let’s Get Started, for preK and kindergarten is specially designed with meaningful activities to match all the standards for kindergarten mathematics! This book is filled with rich activities that will motivate your students to love numbers. The activities in this book can be used whole class or in small group stations. An exciting part of the book is a brand new Random Number CD made by Ron Brown especially for preK/K with many great tunes and a variety of pacing which includes counting songs 0-10, 0-20, 0-30. Students will be delighted with music with random numbers called out and “hands on” activities to build strong number sense!

All Aboard The Algebra Express

All Aboard the Algebra Express is filled with meaningful whole class and small group lessons to build a strong algebraic foundation for students in grades 1-5. This book incorporates children’s literature, “hands on” materials and learning centers based on Kim Sutton’s motivational guiding principles for teaching elementary mathematics. It also has many games that reinforce skills and build student independence with powerful mathematics. Strong math vocabulary and higher level thinking is emphasized.

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Math Drills to Thrill with the Random Number CD

Kim Sutton’s newest book, Math Drills to Thrill With the Random Number CD (which replaces our old Random Number CD and Gameboards) uses the classic “Kim tool” to practice basic operational facts. The book is filled with practice ideas through the important teaching of computational strategies and is designed to be used K-5. K-1 teachers will be thrilled by the “Getting Acquainted with Numbers” section. All of the addition and multiplication strategies are included with appropriate practice pages. There are also ideas for practicing number vocabulary. Watch your elementary students improve their listening skills as an added benefit!

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Place Value with Pizzazz

Kim Sutton’s much anticipated book. Place Value with Pizzazz has arrived! This practical book is filled with ideas, games, and activities to add “spice” to the teaching of one of the most important areas of number sense. There are four sections to the book — Place Value Tools, Place Value Games and Activities, Place Value Clues and a Place Value reference section. These four sections add up to 276 Pages of teachings ideas! Teachers of students kindergarten through sixth grade will find this book to be an extensive resource to supplement the teaching of place value.

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The Powerful Numbers 0-100 Book & CD

Kim’s new book, The Powerful Numbers 0-100 and accompanying CD is filled with number sense activity sheets for every level of student in the elementary classroom. All sheets practice mental math ranging from identifying the numbers read to performing mathematical functions to the numbers 0-100. There are teacher pages explaining the data sheets along with examples showing how it can be used with the CD. The CD is a great complement to the book and includes seven songs including the numbers 0-100.

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Fractions: A Part of the Whole

This exciting new book by Kim Sutton is filled with practical ideas for building area, set and number line models for fractions. This book for grades 1-5 students will create interest and understanding of fractions on a foundational level through models, games and activities. Fractions are the basis for proportional reasoning and these activities will be the “hands on” experiences that students lack from textbooks. Students will work through activities with pattern blocks, circles, rectangles, squares, chips and number lines. Teachers will enjoy the “Fraction Chat Cards” for this experience three times a week. This book includes many different games for student enjoyment. Literature connections are made throughout the book. Kim shares her enthusiasm for reaching all students with meaningful mathematics.

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The Power of Digital Root

The Power of Digital Root -10 Lessons for Understanding New! Kim Sutton’s newest book is all about building understanding for digital root as the most important number property. The Power of Digital Root takes students and teachers of grades 2-6 on an intensive journey into all the mathematical uses for digital root. There are ten lessons with countless data sheets, activities, and games provided for students and teachers to practice creating each of the 10 understandings! Many of you have heard Kim talk about digital root at her workshops and now you and your students will understand the power behind this number property!

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Do The Math

Kim’s newest book, Do The Math, features important number sense and measurement activities and games for students K-2. The book is rich in the kinds of experiences that students need repeatedly throughout the school year with an easy to use model of the kind of discussion that will emerge from these activities. Kim’s book uses Counting Rope activities, Number Chat Cards and a Digit Detectives game students will love along with many more motivating tools for spicing up math reinforcement. This wonderful book will build an important connection between counting and linear measurement.

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Dynamic Dice

Dynamic Dice is filled with games and activities for K-5 using three unique kinds of dice: double dice, ten-sided double dice and place value dice. The games and activities are intended for reinforcement of basic facts, fractions and decimals, rounding, factoring, probability, coordinate graphing, number sense, and geometry. Dice are powerful motivational tools for meaningful mathematics. Kim’s new book, Dynamic Dice, will add a wonderful dimension to your classroom.

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Math Focus Activities

Math Focus Activities Book - Kim’s exciting new book offers 20 ready-to-use math reinforcers. These activities are perfect for capturing math minutes lost during transition times in a day. Adaptable for grades K-5, these short activities review and enhance critical math skills. These aren’t teaching minutes, but are reviews of taught facts and concepts, giving students the important continual review needed for math fluency. You will receive activities that cover patterning, money math, hundreds and twenty five charts, pattern blocks, computation and attributing. Everything you need including masters for transparencies.

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Math Engineers

Math Engineers Activities Book - First in a series of books by Kim Sutton, the book is appropriate for teachers Grades K-5 and is divided into four themes — Patterns, Pasta, Pizza and Pennies. Activities are written in two voices - one for older students who can be self-directed and the other, teacher-directed for younger grades. There are worksheets and an index that shows which strand is covered by each activity. You will really enjoy the many wonderful activities.

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Making Math Books with Children

Kim’s new book creates opportunities for children to construct math booklets inspired by literature based math lessons. Each lesson plan has a booklet that students construct as part of the mathematical experience. The booklets follow one unique model of construction and cover the strands of number sense, algebra and functions, measurement and geometry, and probability and statistics. The booklets are easy to construct and are used for recording data, writing properties of shapes and numbers, and journaling mathematical experiences. Some of the booklets include a math dictionary, shape booklet, estimation booklet, and a number book. Children will gain independence with each booklet constructed plus reinforce important areas of mathematics that tie into the NCTM Standards for Elementary Mathematics.

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Number Line Workbook

Due to the tremendous response we have received to her number line Kim created this workbook to complement it . The Number Line Workbook has student data sheets for all multiples between 2-12 and includes many useful games and activities. This workbook can be used with skip counting activities or to improve your use of Kim’s Number Line.

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Visual Tools

This book isn’t like any you have ever seen! One of the highlights of Kim Sutton’s workshops is the walls covered with graphs! Because of overwhelming requests, Kim has put her favorite 25 graphs in a book for you to use. There are pictures of each graph and easy explanations on how to make and use graphs to super-charge your classroom. Kim talks about the four types of graphs you can use in your classroom and why they are important. Kim’s book covers generic ideas that can be used across the grade spans and will have you creating graph after graph!

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