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This book, written in English and Spanish for students and teachers of grades K to 2, provides activities for developing healthy attitudes toward the use of technology while extending a student's mathematical power. Content strands recommended by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) in the CURRICULUM AND EVALUATION STANDARDS, incorporated into the book are number sense; patterns, relations, and functions; measurement and geometry; and probability and statistics. Goals of instruction are summarized as follows: addressing major elementary mathematics curriculum components, developing understanding of important mathematical ideas, and encouraging reasoning and communication. For example, students are asked to choose a beginning number from the hundred chart. Then students describe by vertical and horizontal steps how to get to an ending number while partners try to determine the ending number by performing the steps with a calculator. Suggestions for literature links are included in activities. A bibliography for links to literature includes the following titles: THERE WERE TEN IN A BED, TEN BLACK DOTS, and SWEET CLARA AND THE FREEDOM QUILT. (Author/LDR) - from Amzon