Do the Math with Marilyn Burns
Marilyn Burns is one of today's most highly respected mathematics educators. Over the course of 40 years, Marilyn has taught children, led inservice sessions, and written a variety of professional development publications for teachers and administrators.
With the publication of Do The Math, a 12-module intervention program that focuses on Number and Operations, Marilyn brings insight into the crucial need for early intervention. Do The Math targets addition and subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions. Marilyn continues to teach regularly in the classroom, finding the experience essential to developing and testing new ideas and materials.
The following articles and resources will give you some perspective on the scope and sequence of Marilyn's research and methodology for the teaching of mathematics today.
Marilyn Burns says why childrens books can be a great math teaching tool
Everyone's favorite math guru shares the top 10 ways you can enhance your students math learning, test scores, and skills
Provides seven basics for teaching arithmetic today and related classroom strategies for each.
Presents a brief discourse about the value of math manipulatives in the classroom.
Illustrates a structured method for teaching intermediate and upper grades with geoboards, as well as a version adapted for younger children.
This article explains the need for arithmetic intervention and the strategies and techniques Marilyn Burns uses in her program.