This teacher resource book  includes black-line masters, teaching instructions, connections to math standards, and background information to help you develop your children's math reasoning skills. The pattern blocks help children visualize the concepts being studied so that students can make the leap from the concrete objects to the reasoning behind the computations.

The lessons are divided into six units: exploring and discovering numbers, numbers and operations, geometry (geometric terms and constructions), measurement, algebra (pre-algebra skills), and probability and statistics.

Pattern block templates and grid paper templates are also included in the back of the book. (Pattern blocks not included.)  136 pp.