Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments


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.


What We Can Do
To Help Our Children Learn:


Listen to them and pay attention to their problems.

Read with them.

Tell family stories.

Limit their television watching.

Have books and other reading materials in the house.

Look up words in the dictionary with them.

Encourage them to use an encyclopedia.

Share favorite poems and songs with them.

Take them to the library--get them their own library cards.

Take them to museums and historical sites, when possible.

Discuss the daily news with them.

Go exploring with them and learn about plants, animals, and
local geography.

Find a quiet place for them to study.

Review their homework.

Meet with their teachers.