On This Site
- What are Themes, Tools, and Concepts? (Teachers' Guide front matter)
- The whole book, downloadable by chapter or by lesson.
- Index to selected topics and tools
- ATTC Teacher Resources
- The book makes extensive use of the Lab Gear manipulatives.
- A paper by Jen Coté: ATTC Through a Deweyian Lens.
Buying the Book
This 1994 textbook can be ordered from Creative Publications by calling (800) 648-2970. (Don't look for it on their Web site or in their catalogs, as its current status is "going out of print".) Please let me know if you have trouble getting a hold of it.
What to ask for: "Algebra Student Book" ISBN 1-56107-251-6
The Teachers' Edition is no longer available from Creative Publications. You can read it on line, in full color, via Google Books.
Sample Lessons
Here are some of the best lessons from ATTC, mostly in PDF format. Some are slightly revised and reorganized.
If you are looking for another lesson, a searchable full color version of ATTC is available via Google Books.
- "In Addition..."
- Three problems
- The "McNuggets Problem"
- Building Block Numbers
- Interpreting Graphs
- The Bicycle Trip | Follow-up
- In the Lab
- Discounts
- Weight vs. Age
- Constant Sums, Constant Products
- (More on this last topic.)
- Equations and Identities
- Three Lessons
- The Cover-Up Method
- Kinds of Numbers
- Function Diagrams
- Nine Function Diagrams
- The Focus
- Representing Linear Functions
- (More on this subject, including animated diagrams.)
- Quadratics
- Maximizing Area | (Condensed version)
- (Related Lessons.)
- Iterating Linear Functions
- Notes
- Worksheets
- (More on this subject.)
- Sequences and Series
- Arithmetic and Geometric
- (Related Lessons)
- Probability
- An Introduction
- Abstract Algebra
- Notes
- Worksheets
- (More on this subject, for teachers.)
