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| nctm brain teasers: Math Projects, Grades 5 - 8 Stulgis-Blalock, 2011-04-18 Make math matter to students in grades 5 and up using Math Projects! This 64-page book provides exciting individual, partner, and small-group projects that promote creative problem solving. Students compute, read, write, and utilize social and artistic skills with the more than 50 projects! The book supports NCTM standards and aligns with state, national, and Canadian provincial standards. |
| nctm brain teasers: One-hundred Problems Involving the Number 100 G. Patrick Vennebush, 2020 Math educators always seek great problems and tasks for the classroom, and this collection contains many that could be used in various grades. By using this book, the reader will understand ways that great problems can be used to encourage student participation and to promote powerful mathematical ideas. In addition, suggestions for how problems can be presented in the classroom will provide professional development to teachers in the form of effective routines for promoting problem solving. This book would be both a fun read for NTCM's membership-- |
| nctm brain teasers: Math Puzzles and Brainteasers, Grades 6-8 Terry Stickels, 2009-09-04 Number puzzles, spatial/visual puzzles, cryptograms, Sudoku, Kokuro, logic puzzles, and word games like Frame Games are all a great way to teach math and problem-solving skills to elementary and middle school students. In these two new collections, puzzle master Terry Stickels provides puzzles and brain games that range from simple to challenging and are organized by grade level and National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) content areas. Each book offers over 300 brain games that will help students learn core math concepts and develop critical thinking skills. The books include a wide range of puzzle types and cover a variety of math topics, from fractions and geometry to probability and algebra. |
| nctm brain teasers: Principles to Actions National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2014-02 This text offers guidance to teachers, mathematics coaches, administrators, parents, and policymakers. This book: provides a research-based description of eight essential mathematics teaching practices ; describes the conditions, structures, and policies that must support the teaching practices ; builds on NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics and supports implementation of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics to attain much higher levels of mathematics achievement for all students ; identifies obstacles, unproductive and productive beliefs, and key actions that must be understood, acknowledged, and addressed by all stakeholders ; encourages teachers of mathematics to engage students in mathematical thinking, reasoning, and sense making to significantly strengthen teaching and learning. |
| nctm brain teasers: Pre-Algebra Brain Teasers Lorin Olchanski, 1998-06 Activities designed as self teaching tools for students in math. |
| nctm brain teasers: Math and Logic Puzzles That Make Kids Think! Jeffrey J. Wanko, 2021-09-03 Kids love exploring new ways of solving problems, especially in fun and challenging puzzle formats. In Math and Logic Puzzles That Make Kids Think!, the author presents several variations on Sudoku—the most well-known type of logic puzzle—in an easy-to-use, exciting format perfect for any math classroom. These language-independent logic puzzles provide kids with great problems to stretch how they think and reason. Each puzzle variation utilizes some of the basic strategies of Sudoku puzzles, but each one also draws upon other areas of mathematics—ordering of numbers, properties of geometric shapes, basic operations, or enriched number sense. This book provides teachers with puzzles arranged by difficulty level that can be used to support and enhance students' mathematical investigations. It also provides a new and exciting context for the development of students' deductive reasoning skills, which can lay the foundation for further mathematical exploration. Grades 6-8 |
| nctm brain teasers: Strengths-Based Teaching and Learning in Mathematics Beth McCord Kobett, Karen S. Karp, 2020-02-27 This book is a game changer! Strengths-Based Teaching and Learning in Mathematics: 5 Teaching Turnarounds for Grades K- 6 goes beyond simply providing information by sharing a pathway for changing practice. . . Focusing on our students’ strengths should be routine and can be lost in the day-to-day teaching demands. A teacher using these approaches can change the trajectory of students’ lives forever. All teachers need this resource! Connie S. Schrock Emporia State University National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics President, 2017-2019 NEW COVID RESOURCES ADDED: A Parent’s Toolkit to Strengths-Based Learning in Math is now available on the book’s companion website to support families engaged in math learning at home. This toolkit provides a variety of home-based activities and games for families to engage in together. Your game plan for unlocking mathematics by focusing on students’ strengths. We often evaluate student thinking and their work from a deficit point of view, particularly in mathematics, where many teachers have been taught that their role is to diagnose and eradicate students’ misconceptions. But what if instead of focusing on what students don’t know or haven’t mastered, we identify their mathematical strengths and build next instructional steps on students’ points of power? Beth McCord Kobett and Karen S. Karp answer this question and others by highlighting five key teaching turnarounds for improving students’ mathematics learning: identify teaching strengths, discover and leverage students’ strengths, design instruction from a strengths-based perspective, help students identify their points of power, and promote strengths in the school community and at home. Each chapter provides opportunities to stop and consider current practice, reflect, and transfer practice while also sharing · Downloadable resources, activities, and tools · Examples of student work within Grades K–6 · Real teachers’ notes and reflections for discussion It’s time to turn around our approach to mathematics instruction, end deficit thinking, and nurture each student’s mathematical strengths by emphasizing what makes them each unique and powerful. |
| nctm brain teasers: Math Projects, Grades 5 - 12 Joyce Stulgis-Blalock, 2011-01-03 Offers math projects that correlate to NCTM standards and specific math concepts, helping teachers to coordinate group and individual projects for their students. |
| nctm brain teasers: A Family's Guide Amy Mirra, 2004-01-01 Family members play an important role in their children's attitudes toward, and success with, mathematics. This award-winning guide summarises what today's mathematics classroom is like, offers tips on how family members can help their children have a positive attitude and enjoy mathematics and presents practical ways to discuss and do maths at home together during everyday situations. Ideas are presented from the elementary and prekindergarten years all the way through high school. The guide is a great resource for family members or teachers and administrators who want ideas to share with family members during events such as Parent Teacher or Family Maths Nights. Reproducible take-home pages addressing questions commonly asked by family members are also included and can be used by teachers and administrators who want to send information home to family members. |
| nctm brain teasers: 40 Fun-Tabulous Puzzles for Multiplication, Division, Decimals, Fractions, and More Bob Olenych, 2000-11 The world lies devastated after the massive oil crisis that was described in LAST LIGHT. Human society has more or less entirely broken down and millions lie dead of starvation and disease. There are only one or two beacon communities that have managed to fashion a new way of living.Jenny Sutherland runs one of these groups. Based on a series of decaying offshore oil-rigs - for safety - a few hundred people have rebuilt a semblance of normality in this otherwise dead world.But as her and her people start to explore their surroundings once again, they start to realise not every survivor has the same vision of a better future than their catastrophic past. There are people out there who would take everything they have. War is coming, and the stakes are truly massive... |
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| nctm brain teasers: 40 Fabulous Math Mysteries Kids Can't Resist Martin Lee, Marcia Miller, 2001-10 Building serious math skills has never been so much fun! |
| nctm brain teasers: High Yield Routines Ann C. McCoy, Joann Barnett, Emily Combs, 2013 Today's classrooms are full of routines. Although we often think of routines as being used for organisation, routines can also be used to enhance instruction. In this book, the authors present seven easily implemented mathematical routines that may be used effectively at a variety of grade levels and with a variety of mathematical content. The book also includes ideas for infusing mathematics into the nonmathematical routines that take time away from instruction. Each chapter begins with classroom vignettes that provide a glimpse of how the routine might look as it is implemented in a variety of grade levels. A description of the routine and implementation strategies follow and the authors provide examples of student work from various grade levels for each of the routine, including examples of ways to assess student thinking by using the routines, and suggestions for adapting the routines. The book includes connections to the Common Core practice standards and focuses on creating opportunities for differentiated instruction. A highly useful book, written by seasoned mathematics educators, this book is a must-have for all elementary and middle school mathematics teachers. |
| nctm brain teasers: My Body Patty Carratello, 1999 This book is designed to provide information about the human body for the primary child. |
| nctm brain teasers: Principles and Standards for School Mathematics , 2000 This easy-to-read summary is an excellent tool for introducing others to the messages contained in Principles and Standards. |
| nctm brain teasers: Math in the Cards Charles H. Lund, 2006 A reproducible resource book which is a compilation of mathematical games and problem solving activities for grades K-12. |
| nctm brain teasers: Teaching Children Mathematics , 2002 |
| nctm brain teasers: Balancing Act Ellen Stoll Walsh, 2015-02-10 Two mice have fun playing on a teeter-totter, but as more and larger friends join them, it becomes increasingly difficult to stay balanced. |
| nctm brain teasers: Hands-On Math Projects With Real-Life Applications Judith A Muschla, Gary Robert Muschla, 2011-01-04 The second edition of this hands-on math guide features sixty engaging projects for students in grades six to twelve learn math concepts and skills. This book is filled with classroom-tested projects that help students build skills in problem solving, critical thinking, and decision making. They also support a positive group environment by emphasize cooperative learning, group sharing, verbalizing ideas, and research skills, as well as writing clearly in mathematics and across other subject areas. Each of the projects follows the same proven format and includes instructions for the teacher, a Student Guide, and one or more reproducible datasheets and worksheets. They all include the elements needed for a successful individual or group learning experience. This second edition includes new projects and information about technology-based and e-learning strategies. Hands-On Math Projects with Real-Life Applications includes a special Skills Index that identifies the skills emphasized in each project. This book will save you time and help you instill in your students a genuine appreciation for the world of mathematics. |
| nctm brain teasers: Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12 Peter Liljedahl, 2020-09-28 A thinking student is an engaged student Teachers often find it difficult to implement lessons that help students go beyond rote memorization and repetitive calculations. In fact, institutional norms and habits that permeate all classrooms can actually be enabling non-thinking student behavior. Sparked by observing teachers struggle to implement rich mathematics tasks to engage students in deep thinking, Peter Liljedahl has translated his 15 years of research into this practical guide on how to move toward a thinking classroom. Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K–12 helps teachers implement 14 optimal practices for thinking that create an ideal setting for deep mathematics learning to occur. This guide Provides the what, why, and how of each practice and answers teachers’ most frequently asked questions Includes firsthand accounts of how these practices foster thinking through teacher and student interviews and student work samples Offers a plethora of macro moves, micro moves, and rich tasks to get started Organizes the 14 practices into four toolkits that can be implemented in order and built on throughout the year When combined, these unique research-based practices create the optimal conditions for learner-centered, student-owned deep mathematical thinking and learning, and have the power to transform mathematics classrooms like never before. |
| nctm brain teasers: Learning to Teach Mathematics Randall J. Souviney, 1994 |
| nctm brain teasers: Must-see Websites for Parents & Kids Lynn Van Gorp, 2007-10-15 Collects websites that are family friendly and may be useful for homework, with suggestions regarding navigation and possibly useful tools. |
| nctm brain teasers: The Moscow Puzzles Boris A. Kordemsky, 1992-04-10 A collection of math and logic puzzles features number games, magic squares, tricks, problems with dominoes and dice, and cross sums, in addition to other intellectual teasers. |
| nctm brain teasers: Math Skills Mind Benders, Grades 6 - 12 Cindy Barden, Joseph A. Kunicki, Ph.D., 2010-02-19 Make math matter to students in grades 5 and up using Math Skills Mind Benders! This 128-page book reinforces mathematical skills with brainteasers, puzzles, games, pictures, and stories. The book includes activities that are labeled with the skills they address and the grade levels they target. Topics include place value, operations, fractions, decimals, percents, problem solving, logic, consumer math, algebra, geometry, data analysis, and probability. Aligned to the Common Core State Standards and NCTM standards. |
| nctm brain teasers: The Big, Big, Big Book of Brainteasers The Grabarchuk Family, Peter Grabarchuk, 2011 Offers visual puzzles of various types, shapes, and sizes, all in colour. This title offers solvers: cube puzzles, construction problems, puzzles with patterns, mazes, paper clip teasers, and more. |
| nctm brain teasers: Math Jokes 4 Mathy Folks G. Patrick Vennebush, 2010 Professor and Mathemagician, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA -- |
| nctm brain teasers: Using Formative Assessment to Differentiate Mathematics Instruction, Grades 410 Leslie Laud, 2011-03-28 A Joint Publication with National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. |
| nctm brain teasers: Math Challenges Robert W. Smith, 2000-08 |
| nctm brain teasers: How to Teach Math Facts Susan R. Greenwald, 1999 |
| nctm brain teasers: Economics and You, Grades 5 - 8 Kristen Girard Golomb, 2012-01-03 This book provides students with step-by-step introduction to the principles of economics and real-world applications, including how to balance a checkbook, calculate interest, develop a budget, buy a car, file taxes, and other concepts vital for economic literacy. |
| nctm brain teasers: Web Resources for Math Activities, Grades 5-8 Amy Gammill, 2004-10-13 |
| nctm brain teasers: How to Solve Word Problems, Grades 2-3 Mary Bolte, 2000-05 Provides comprehensive overview of strategies for solving word problems to be used in classroom or home setting. |
| nctm brain teasers: Daily Warm-Ups: Math Grade 8 Heath Roddy, 2014-03-28 |
| nctm brain teasers: Electricity Kathee Gosnell, 2000 |
| nctm brain teasers: Young Mathematicians at Work Catherine Twomey Fosnot, Maarten Ludovicus Antonius Marie Dolk, 2001 Explains how children between the ages of four and eight construct a deep understanding of numbers and the operations of addition and subtraction. |
| nctm brain teasers: Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games Martin Gardner, 2005 The entire collection of Martin Gardner's Scientific American columns are on one searchable CD! Martin Gardner's ``Mathematical Games'' column ran in Scientific American from 1956 to 1986. In these columns, Gardner introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the delights of mathematics and of puzzles and problem solving. His column broke such stories as Rivest, Shamir and Adelman on public-key cryptography, Mandelbrot on fractals, Conway on Life, and Penrose on tilings. He enlivened classic geometry and number theory and introduced readers to new areas such as combinatorics and graph theory. The CD contains the following articles: (1) Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions; (2) The Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions; (3) New Mathematical Diversions; (4) The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions; (5) Martin Gardner's 6th Book of Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American; (6) Mathematical Carnival; (7) Mathematical Magic Show; (8) Mathematical Circus; (9) The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix; (10) Wheels, Life, and Other Mathematical Amusements; (11) Knotted Doughnuts and Other Mathematical Entertainers; (12) Time Travel and Other Mathematical Bewilderments; (13) Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers; (14) Fractal Music, Hypercards, and more Mathematical Recreations from Scientific American and (15) The Last Recreations: Hydras, Eggs, and Other Mathematical Mystifications. A profile and interview with Martin Gardner is included in this collection. |
| nctm brain teasers: Chaos and Fractals Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Hartmut Jürgens, Dietmar Saupe, 2006-05-05 Almost 12 years have passed by since we wrote Chaos and Fractals. At the time we were hoping that our approach of writing a book which would be both accessible without mathematical sophistication and portray these exiting new fields in an authentic manner would find an audience. Now we know it did. We know from many reviews and personal letters that the book is used in a wide range of ways: researchers use it to acquaint themselves, teachers use it in college and university courses, students use it for background reading, and there is also a substantial audience of lay people who just want to know what chaos and fractals are about. Every book that is somewhat technical in nature is likely to have a number of misprints and errors in its first edition. Some of these were caught and brought to our attention by our readers. One of them, Hermann Flaschka, deserves to be thanked in particular for his suggestions and improvements. This second edition has several changes. We have taken out thetwo appendices from the firstedition. At the time of the first edition Yuval Fishers contribution, which we published as an appendix was probably the first complete expository account on fractal image compression. Meanwhile, Yuvals book Fractal Image Compression: Theory and Application appeared and is now the publication to refer to. |
| nctm brain teasers: File Folder Games Karen Finch, 1990 |
| nctm brain teasers: How to Multiply, Grades 2-3 Mary Rosenberg, 2000-05 Presents comprehensive overview of multiplication of whole numbers to be used in classrooms or at home. |
| nctm brain teasers: Teaching Mathematics in Secondary and Middle School James S. Cangelosi, 2003 For courses in secondary or middle school math. This text focuses on all the complex aspects of teaching mathematics in today's classroom and the most current NCTM standards. It demonstrates how to creatively incorporate the standards into teaching along with inquiry-based instructional strategies. Using one expansive case study that follows a mathematics teacher through his first year in the profession, the text illustrates how to lead pupils toward meaningful mathematics and strategies for developing mathematics skills. Interactive in its approach, the text includes an abundance of illustrative examples, mini case studies, cooperative learning activities, field-based activities, and transitional activities. |
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