Description: Feisty Females offers ideas for using books with strong female role models to lead elementary students in explorations of four key mathematical areas: number and computation; geometry and measurement; probability and statistics; and algebraic ideas.
Brief description:
A former elementary school teacher, Karen Karp is an associate professor in the department of early and middle childhood education at the University of Louisville, where she teaches graduate courses in mathematics education.
Review Quotes: "This books is a "must have" resource for every elementary teacher and librarian. The bibliography and suggestions are practical, fun, and mathematically inspired."-Teaching Children Mathematics