David Moursund IAE Books
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Free IAE Books by David Moursund
Free Book on Good Math Lesson Plans
- Moursund, David (March, 2012). Good math lesson planning and implementation. Eugene, OR: Information Age Education. Download the PDF file from http://i-a-e.org/downloads/doc_download/230-good-math-lesson-plans.html and the Microsoft Word file from http://i-a-e.org/downloads/doc_download/229-good-math-lesson-plans.html.
The book draws heavily on the IAE-pedia document Good Math Lesson Plans available at http://iae-pedia.org/Good_Math_Lesson_Plans. That page is by far the most popular of the content pages in the IAE-pedia. It had had over 73,500 visits as of 3/26/2012, the date when the book first became available.
The short book is designed to help preservice and inservice teachers of math become better math teachers. Both elementary school and secondary school teachers of math should find the content useful.
Free Book on Brain/Mind and Math Education
- Moursund, David (2004). Improving elementary school math education: Some roles of brain/mind science and computers. Eugene, OR: Information Age Education. Access the PDF file at http://i-a-e.org/downloads/doc_download/232-improving-elementary-school-math-education-some-roles-of-brainmind-science-and-computers.html. Access the Microsoft Word file at http://i-a-e.org/downloads/doc_download/231-improving-elementary-school-math-education-some-roles-of-brainmind-science-and-computers.html.
This book is designed for use in the preservice and inservice education of elementary school teachers whose duties include teaching math. The book provides an introduction to brain science and mind topics important to math teaching and learning. The goal of the book is to improve the quality of math education that elementary school students are receiving. In this 2012 reprinting of the original 2004 book, a few errors have been corrected, the Index has been expanded, a small set of more recent references have been added, and the final chapter has been reconstructed from notes written in 2004.
Free Book on STEM
- Moursund, David (11/4/2011). Play Together, Learn Together: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Eugene, OR: Information Age Education. Download a free copy of the PDF file from PDF http://i-a-e.org/downloads/doc_download/212-play-together-learn-together-stem.html and/or a free copy of the Microsoft Word file from http://i-a-e.org/downloads/doc_download/213-play-together-learn-together-stem.html.
This book is for parents, grandparents, teachers, and other adult caregivers. Its goal is to help you improve the education of children. Here are the key aspects of this book:
- The book focuses on the idea of “Play together, learn together.” Learning can be fun. Children and parents can have fun and can learn through playing together. Children can have fun and learn while playing together.
- A parent, teacher, or other caregiver, when working with a child or very small group of children, is serving as a tutor. One-on-one or small group tutoring is a very effective aid to learning. David Moursund is co-author of a free book on math tutoring designed for parents, teachers, and others. See http://iae-pedia.org/Math_Tutoring.
- The Web is a tremendous and steadily growing resource of learning materials and activities. More generally, there are many computer-based resources that are designed to help a learner learn. In this book we use the idea of a human tutor and a computer-as-tutor (a computer tutor) working together to help a student learn.
- The book focuses on the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). It contains links to a large number of valuable resources.
The book contains a large number of activities designed for children and/or for adults and children playing and learning together. Quite a few of the activities require some adult supervision or adult help in getting started. Thus, this book is written for adults, rather than for children, but the focus is on children’s activities. The goal of the book is to help you get better at helping children learn about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics though the use of educationally sound, fun activities.
Free Book on Math Tutoring
- Moursund, David and Albrecht, Robert (9/2/2011). Becoming a better math tutor. Eugene. OR: Information Age Education. The PDF file is available at http://i-a-e.org/downloads/doc_download/208-becoming-a-better-math-tutor.html The Microsoft Word file is available at http://i-a-e.org/downloads/doc_download/209-becoming-a-better-math-tutor.html. If you just want to view the TOC, Preface, the first two chapters, and the two Appendices, go to http://iae-pedia.org/Math_Tutoring.
This 145-page book is about math tutoring is designed to help K-12 math tutors and tutees get better at their respective and mutual tasks.
- Tutoring is a powerful aid to learning. Much of the power comes from the interaction between tutor and tutee. This interaction allows the tutor to adjust the content and nature of the instruction to specifically meet the needs of the tutee. It allows ongoing active participation of the tutee.
- The intended audiences for this book include volunteer and paid tutors, preservice and inservice teachers, parents and other child caregivers, students who help other students (peer tutors), and developers of tutorial software and other materials.
- The book includes two appendices. The first is for tutees who have a 6th grade or higher reading ability. Tutors working with tutees with lower reading levels will want to cover the content of this Appendix with their tutees. The other is for parents, and it provides an overview of tutoring and how they can help their children who are being tutored.
- An extensive References section contains links to additional resources.
- Readers of this book are encouraged (but in no way required) to make a donation to an organization of project designed to help improve math education. At the current time, David Moursund's favorite 501(c)3 is the one discussed in the section David Moursund Legacy Fund near the end of this document.
Free Book on Math Maturity
- Moursund, David and Albrecht, Robert (2011). Using math games and word problems to increase the math maturity of K-8 students. Eugene, OR: Information Age Education. Download Microsoft Word File. Download PDF File.
This book is for preservice and inservice teachers who want to improve the informal and formal math education of preK-8 students. The authors emphasize using simple, inexpensive games to provide students with learning environments that help to increase their levels of math maturity. The focus is on learning for understanding that will last a lifetime.
The book includes both underlying math education “theory” and a variety of games. There is considerable emphasis on developing and testing strategies to help increase one’s effectiveness in dealing with recurring math-related problems and problem situations.
Additional Free Books
David Moursund has written about 60 books. Several are listed earlier in this document. About 35 of them are available free at http://iae-pedia.org/David_Moursund_Books.
David Moursund Legacy Fund
I (David Moursund) have created an endowment fund in the Department of Mathematics, University of Oregon. The fund is in honor of my parents and their four children (Robert, David, Anne, Peter). All of the Andrew F. and Lulu V. Moursund children graduated from the University of Oregon.
The endowment is being funded by contributions by people who appreciate the work my parents did, the work I have done, and the free materials I have made available. If you would like to make a contribution, see details starting in the next paragraph.
Both my father and mother taught mathematics at the University of Oregon. My father was head of the department for many years. I received my undergraduate degree from this department and later was on the faculty. I was one of three math department faculty who worked to split Computer Science off from the math department, and I served six years as the first head of the Computer Science department.
Over the years I have developed many documents and made them available free on the Web. In recent years, I have provided the funding for the Information Age Education, and I plan to continue to do this in the future.
If you would like to show your appreciation for my work and for my support of Information Age Education, you can make a donation to the Science of Teaching and Learning Math endowment fund at the University of Oregon. Click here to see details of this fund-raising effort.
Income from this permanent endowment fund will be used to carry out activities designed to improve the teaching and learning of math at both the precollege and higher education levels. This includes an emphasis on preservice and inservice math education. Click here to learn more about the Science of Teaching and Learning.
A donation can be made online through the secure site of the University of Oregon Foundation. The Web address is https://supportuo.uofoundation.org/. There you will see:
This is the first part of the form that you will need to fill out. In this part of the form, you will use the "Other (please specify)" space. Enter the endowment fund title: Science of Teaching and Learning Math
Then, enter a whole dollar amount of $10 or more. ($10 in the minimum donation that this system will accept.)
The rest of the form seems to me to be straight-forward. Each place that is indicted by Bold Face needs to have an entry. Success in filling out the form correctly will be indicated by the Website and should bring you an email response as well as a "warm glow in your heart."
The same site provides information about how to make a donation by check.
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