Helping your Child Learn Math

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This book was made possible with help from the following people: Phil Demartini, Headmaster, St. Francis School, Goshen, Kentucky;, Janet G. Gillespie, Teacher, Woodlawn Elementary School, Portland, Oregon; David Kanter; Sharon Nelson, Principal, Lower School, Isidore Newman School, New Orleans, Louisiana; Kathy Rabin, Teacher, Isidore Newman School; and Annette Raphel, Curriculum Coordinator, Milton Academy, Milton, Massachusetts.

Others who reviewed early drafts or provided information and guidance include: Iris Carl, Past President, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics; Mary Connolly, Marketing Manager, Elementary Mathematics, DC Heath; Julie Fisher, Visiting Mathematics Educator, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics; Vera M. White, Principal, Jefferson Junior High School, Washington, D.C.; and many people in the U.S. Department of Education.

Special thanks go to Leo and Diane Dillon for their advice on how to work with illustrators and to Alison Goldstein and Emily Dorfman, two Maryland third graders who marked the manuscript for color overlays. Appreciation is also expressed to Nathan and Julie Kanter for testing many of the activities contained in this book.

Patsy E. Kanter is Assistant Principal/Curriculum Coordinator at the Isidore Newman Lower School in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is also an instructor of family math and a consultant for the Louisiana Children's Museum. She has been an elementary school mathematics teacher, and she founded the Newman Math Institute at Newman School. She is the author, with Janet Gillespie, of Every Day Counts and Math Every Day and has written articles on mathematics for professional magazines. She has a B.A. from Newcomb College, and, in listing her academic credentials, she credits her mother, Louise Hirsch Friedler, as being her first teacher, "who always tried to make learning interesting for me."

Jerry Guillot is the art teacher for Isidore Newman Lower School in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he has taught for the past 24 years. He has a B.A. from Lousiana State University and received his teaching certification from Tulane University. He has taught classes and workshops on elementary art for both college students and private organizations. He is also a graphic artist for a New Orleans company.

Brian A. Griffin (pages 10, 11, 30, 35, 45, 46) is a designer for the San Jose Mercury News, San Jose, California. He was formerly the Art Director of Kids Today, a weekly children's newspaper published by Gannett Co., Inc. He has won awards from the Society of Newspaper Design, PRINT Regional Design Annual, and the Art Director's Club of Metropolitan Washington.