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*NEW* Mathematics Explorations: Detective-style Activities for the Real World by David B. Spangler
Mathematics Explorations calls for students to “put on a detective hat” and search for patterns in order to:
• Discover math concepts and formulas
• Break codes and solve mysteries
• Uncover and correct errors and blunders
• Analyze why a “trick works”
• And more!
The activity lessons address the big ideas from the major strands of mathematics: Number and Operations, Measurement and Geometry, Data Analysis and Probability, and Algebra. The Teacher’s Edition includes math background, full solutions, extensions, a correlation to the NCTM Standards, and mathematical humor for each activity lesson.
Grades 6–9
Teacher Resource, 208 pp.; $24.95; Student Workbook, 112 pp.; $9.95 |
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*NEW* Career Math: Teaching Real-world Math Skills and Concepts by Hope Martin
Help students answer the question, “When are we ever going to use this?” with ready-to-use, motivating math activities that apply to the real world. Students see how math is used in professions such as meteorology, medicine, food preparation, zoo and animal care, and personal fitness. Career Math is aligned with the NCTM Standards and shows how professionals use math everyday.
The Teacher’s Edition contains all of the student activities and, in addition, pages designed specifically with teacher’s needs in mind. The Teacher’s Pages contain:
• math skills contained in the lesson,
• material needed for students to complete the activities,
• background information and suggested teaching strategies,
• ideas for journal questions,
• extension activities, and
• answers to the activities
The Student Workbook contains all of the activities but does not have any useful or supportive teacher materials.
Grades 5–8
Teacher Resource, 154 pp.; $19.95; Student Workbook, 92 pp.; $9.95 |
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*NEW* Active Learning in the Mathematics Classroom, Grades 5–8 by Hope Martin
Active Learning in the Mathematics Classroom, Grades 5–8 engages students directly in creative learning experiences. Attention-grabbers such as Algebra Jokes, The M&M Mystery, How Long Would It Take to Walk to China?, and Gummi Worms help students use mathematics as a powerful problem-solving tool, gain meaningful understandings of key concepts, and effectively communicate their mathematical thinking.
With step-by-step directions, suggestions, tips, and variations for implementation, this updated text provides reproducible student pages for each activity, journaling questions to engage students in writing about mathematics, and specific web site and literature resources.
Grades 5-8, 206pp.; $32.95 |
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*NEW* Making Math Connections (Gr 5–8) by Hope Martin
Spark student learning by making an authentic connection between math and real-life experiences!
Students often fail to make the connection between "school math" and their everyday lives, becoming passive recipients of isolated, memorized rules and formulas. This remarkable new resource will help students become active problem-solvers who see mathematics as a meaningful tool that can be used outside the classroom.
Grades 5-8, 212 pp.; $34.95 |
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*NEW* Math Poetry by Betsy Franco
Math Poetry invites students to learn math vocabulary and concepts by writing their own word problems in the form of poems. You'll be amazed by the sparks of creativity that fly around the classroom! With crystal clear instructions and easy-to-use activities and templates, Math Poetry provides an innovative way to each both math and writing.
Students will learn:
• Math concepts and operations
• Place value and fractions
• Geometry and graphs
• Measurement and money
Grades 2-5, 144 pp.; $15.95 |
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Good Morning Math by Hope Martin and Jill Martin
The "big ideas" of primary mathematics are the cornerstone of Good Morning Math. Young scholars will takes surveys with clothespins, make connections between math and literature, collect data using marshmallows, peanuts, and pumpkins, and discover that school mathematics really does make sense.
Grades K–4, 122 pp.; $14.95 |
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Group Solutions: Cooperative Logic Activities for Grades K–4 by Jan M. Goodman (Lawrence Hall of Science)
This book provides more than 50 highly motivating cooperative logic challenges for groups of four. Each child receives a clue and needs to share it with the rest of the group to find the solution – which can only be found when the group works together. Language development and improved reading abilities go hand-in-hand with these activities. Math concepts include numeration, computation (fractions), directionality, ordinal numbers, money, and more.
Grades K–4, 148 pp.; $21.00 |
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Group Solutions, Too: More Cooperative Logic Activities for Grades K–4 by Jan M. Goodman with Jaine Kopp (Lawrence Hall of Science)
This book of 70 innovative challenges features the same compelling cooperative format as Group Solutions — but stands on its own as it explores distinct mathematical content and focuses logical thinking skills in new ways. Math concepts include geometric shapes, number, ordinal numbers, combinations, order and sequence, equivalence, symmetry, perimeter, and more.
Grades K–4, 216 pp.; $21.00 |
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What Year am I?: A Math Warm-up a Day by Hope Martin
Start each class with one of these intriguing puzzles and get your students eagerly doing math in those crucial first five minutes. Each real-world warm-up, one for every day of the year, highlights an interesting event or a famous person, utilizing clues that review and preview place value, measurement, number theory, geometry, and more.
Grades 3–6, 200 pp.; $24.95 |
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Family Math by Jean Kerr Stenmark, Virginia Thompson, and Ruth Cossey (Lawrence Hall of Science)
Family Math is about parents and children working together, learning to like mathematics, doing activities that make math fun for children beginning at age 5. The activities address problem solving, logical reasoning, measurement, geometry, spatial thinking, probability, statistics, calculators, estimation, computation, and more. A grant from the U.S. Department of Education supported the development and testing of these materials in communities with families from inner cities, suburbs, and rural areas.
Grades K–6, 320 pp.; $19.95 |
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Differentiated Instruction for Mathematics - Instructions and activities for the diverse classroom by Hope Martin
Written for students in grades 5–8, Differentiated Instruction for Mathematics has hands-on, minds-on activities that are designed to be responsive to the intellectual strengths and personal interests of today's student. The activities and projects in each chapter reflect the philosophy of differentiation, provide a mathematics curriculum that is standards based, and involve students in hands-on, motivating real-world problems. The chapters are organized around the National Council of Teacher's of Mathematics Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (2000).
Grades 5-8, 152 pp.; $23.99 |
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Math for Real Kids, Second Edition by David Spangler
This rich sourcebook of mathematical problems, applications, and activities is based on situations kids encounter everyday. Students won't ask, "Why am I studying this?" when they score a bowling game, work with secret codes, make change for a dollar, use math to help them make a self-portrait, use sports statistics to make their own Sports Card, and more. This book is organized into chapters addressing whole numbers, decimals, fractions, statistics, probability, measurement, geometry, and pre-algebra. Practical problems, often in humorous settings, help students build confidence in their problem-solving abilities.
Grades 5–8, 144 pp.; $14.95 |
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730 Daily Math Warm-ups by Hope Martin
Add five minutes of active learning to your classes every day--another whole month of valuable instruction each year! Start each class with one of these intriguing puzzles and get your students eagerly doing math in those crucial first five minutes. Each puzzle highlights an interesting event or a famous person -- while guessing the year students interpret quantitative clues and connect the abstract rules of number theory to an interesting, fun activity.
Grades 5–9, 192 pp.; $24.95 |
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Integrating Math in the Real World: The Math of Food by Hope Martin
How can math help you improve your diet? 20 exciting exercises focus on proper diet, exercise, information on food labels and food shortages around the world?
Grades 5–8, 80 pp.; $10.95 |
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Integrating Math in the Real World: The Math of Homes by Hope Martin and Susan Guengerich
20-real life activities that show students they really do use math every day. Activities focus on home ownership, construction and design, skyscrapers, and much more. Students will never ask, "When are we ever going to use this?"
Grades 5–8, 80 pp.; $10.95 |
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Integrating Math in the Real World: The Math of Sports by Hope Martin and Susan Guengerich
From baseball statistics to the Indy 500, these activities focus on engaging activities using data and information drawn from the world of sports. This valuable resource provides you with activities that integrate problem solving into your mathematics curriculum.
Grades 5–8, 80 pp.; $10.95 |
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Multicultural Math Fun: Holidays Around the Year by Louise Bock, Susan Guengerich, and Hope Martin
Celebrate math with these 54 multicultural activities that are educational and fun! This book has a wealth of projects for the entire calendar year, all tied to holidays from different cultures. Aligned with the NCTM Standards, you can celebrate Mexican Independence Day, Black History Month, National Native American Day, Thanksgiving and more with activities that develop important math concepts.
Grades 5–9, 160 pp.; $25.95 |
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Math Around the World by Beverly Braxton, Philip Gonsalves, Linda Lipner, and Jacqueline Barber (Lawrence Hall of Science)
This book places mathematics in a multicultural and international context — presenting eight games from four different continents — NIM, Kalah, Tower of Hanoi, Game Sticks, Magic Squares, Shongo Networks, Games of Alignment, and Hex. The games address the following math strands: number, patterns, algebra, functions, geometry, logic, number, probability, statistics, and discrete mathematics.
Grades 5–8, 190 pp.; $25.50 |
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Daily Warm-ups -- Pre-Algebra by Hope Martin
180 quick activities — one for each day of the school year — review, practice, and teach pre-algebra topics.
• Turns downtime into learning time
• Makes mastering pre-algebra skills as easy as 1-2-3
• Uses daily math riddles based on historical events to make lessons memorable and fun
• Readies students for standardized tests
Grades 6–9, 188 pp.; $15.95 |
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Daily Warm-ups -- Algebra by Hope Martin
180 quick activities — one for each day of the school year — review, practice, and teach algebra topics.
• Turns downtime into learning time
• Gives students the skills to become confident problem-solvers
• Uses daily math riddles based on historical events to make lessons memorable and fun
• Helps prepare students for standardized tests
Grades 7–10, 190 pp.; $15.95 |
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Daily Warm-ups -- Geometry by Thomas Campbell
180 quick activities — one for each day of the school year — review, practice, and teach geometry topics.
• Turns downtime into learning time
• Gives students the skills to become confident problem-solvers
• Makes problems memorable and fun using easy-to-follow illustrations
• Paves the way for success on standardized tests
Grades 8–11, 206 pp.; $15.95 |
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Daily Warm-ups – Algebra II by Hope Martin
180 quick activities — one for each day of the school year — review, practice, and teach Algebra II topics.
• Turns downtime into learning time
• Gives students the skills to become confident problem-solvers
• Uses daily math riddles based on historical events to make lessons memorable and fun
• Readies students for standardized tests
Grades 7–10, 190 pp.; $15.95 |
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10-Minute Critical Thinking Activities in the Math Classroom by Hope Martin
An ideal supplement to any mathematics curriculum, this reproducible book of 56 engaging activities encourages students to use critical thinking skills to evaluate, and then solve, a variety of problems. Topics addressed include number theory, computation skills, geometry, mathematical reasoning, sequencing and patterning, order of operations, algebra, and spatial visualization and transformations.
Grades 5–8, 74 pp.; $16.95 |
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10-Minute Critical-Thinking Activities for Algebra by Hope Martin
Ready-to-use, creative activities warm up your class and reinforce key algebraic concepts. Designed to meet the NCTM Standards, these 69 engaging activities help students build problem-solving strategies that they can apply not only in the math classroom, but also to other content areas and in everyday life. Activities address a range of topics including patterns, functions, mathematical modeling, probability and statistics, graphing, and more.
Grades 7–10, 74 pp.; $16.95 |
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Algebra Activities from Many Cultures by Beatrice Lumpkin
From pre-colonial Latin America to African pyramids, this book of 60 reproducible activities will enable your students to gain a global, real-life appreciation of algebra. Each unit contains:
• Cultural and historical anecdotes for each algebraic concept
• Hands-on activities to clarify concepts for all types of learners
• Group projects that utilize students' critical-thinking and problem-solving skills
Grades 7–10, 122 pp.; $19.95
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Get It Together: Math Problems for Groups, Grades 4–12 by Tim Erickson (Lawrence Hall of Science)
Get It Together is a collection of over 100 mathematics problems for groups of 2–6 students in grades 4 and beyond. Cooperative learning helps students see that mathematics doesn't have to be learned in isolation. The problems cover a wide range of subject matter and difficulty. The topics include logic, number, geometry, algebra, probability, measurement, functions, and more. The book also includes advice on management and assessment.
Grades 4–12, 180 pp.; $19.95 |
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Height–O – Meters by Cary I. Sneider (Lawrence Hall of Science)
This book makes the principle of triangulation (a method of indirect measurement) simple and fun to apply. The book shows how to make a simple cardboard device (technically called clinometers) to measure the angular height of an object in degrees. Activities have students estimate the height of the school flagpole, experiment to compare how high a Styrofoam ball and a rubber ball can be thrown, and more.
Grades 6 – 10, 60 pp.; $10.50 |
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Mathemagic in the Classroom by Wade Sherard
This book offers 57 mathematical magic tricks to teach, challenge, and entertain students. Designed to meet the NCTM Standards, the book is divided into two sections. Part 1 presents each trick and the secret to solving it. Part 2 explains the mathematics that makes each trick work. As students work to find the secret of each trick, they improve their skills in problem solving, critical thinking, and mathematical reasoning.
Grades 7–12, 118 pp.; $21.95 |
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