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You can improve essential math skills and scores dramatically in middle grades/high school in only 20 minutes per day using this powerful, proven program developed by Rick Fisher. Mastering Essenti

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How can parents help their children with math at home? With over 300 pages of lively activities, the classic FAMILY MATH book represents one of the greatest strides taken to involve parents in the mathematics education of their children. Using easy instructions and simple objects such as beans, blocks, pennies, buttons, and string, parents and kids solve problems together. FAMILY MATH is a rich resource of math curriculum including number and estimation, logical thinking, probability and statistics, geometry, measurement, and calculators. The stimulating games, puzzles, and projects entice kids in playful ways to master math concepts. Because this book reinforces the basic school curriculum, it is also a must for teachers. The book has a step-by-step description of how to organize a FAMILY MATH class in your community. For families with children five to twelve years old. Grades K-8. 318 pp

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Fun-Filled Reproducible Mystery Stories That Build Essential Math Problem-Solving Skills
Make Math Fun!
Building serious math skills has never been so much fun!

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Our proven Spectrum Math grade 8 workbook features 176 pages of drills and practice in math fundamentals. Recently updated to current national math and testing standards. This workbook for children ages 13 to 14 uses everyday math applications to teach basic skills.

Math skills include:

•Ratio and proportion

•Fractions, decimals, and percents

•Calculating interest

•Perimeter, area, and volume

•Algebra

•Geometry

•Probability and statistics

Our best-selling Spectrum Math series features age-appropriate workbooks for Preschool to grade 8. Developed with the latest standards-based teaching methods that provide targeted practice in math fundamentals to ensure successful learning!

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Interesting, enjoyable, and challenging activities to help teach higher level mathematics
Here is a collection of math activities that support the NCTM standards and encourage problem-solving, high-level reasoning, and analytical skills'”and are stimulating, interesting, and fun for students. The book includes activities covering geometry, measurement, algebra, statistics and probability, trigonometry, calculus, and more. Featuring a complete answer key to each section, this resource will be a valuable addition to a high school instructor's everyday materials.

Judith A. Muschla and Gary Robert Muschla (East Brunswick, NJ), both teachers of mathematics, have coauthored numerous resources for teachers, including The Math Teacher's Book of Lists (0-1325-5910-2) and Hands-On Math Projects with Real-Life Applications (0-1303-2015-3).

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This leading K-8 math methods text has the most coverage of the NCTM standards, the strongest coverage of middle school mathematics, and the highest student approval of any text currently available. Elementary and Middle School Mathematics provides an unparalleled depth of ideas and discussion to help students develop a real understanding of the mathematics they will teach. John Van de Walle, one of the foremost experts on how children learn mathematics, finds that 80 percent of the students who purchase this book keep it for reference when they begin their professional teaching careers. This text reflects the NCTM Principles and Standards and the benefits of constructivist-or student-centered-mathematics instruction. Moreover, it is structured for maximum flexibility, offering 24 brief, compartmentalized chapters that may be mixed and matched to fit any course or teaching approach.

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Now in its eighth edition, this book masterfully integrates skills, concepts, and activities to motivate learning. It emphasizes the relevance of mathematics to help readers learn the importance of the information being covered. This approach ensures that they develop a sold mathematics foundation and discover how to apply the content in the real world.

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This is the second edition of the bestselling resource for mathematics teachers. This time-saving reference provides over 300 useful lists for developing instructional materials and planning lessons for middle school and secondary students. Some of the lists supply teacher background; others are to copy for student use, and many offer new twists to traditional classroom topics. For quick access and easy use, the lists are numbered consecutively, organized into sections focusing on the different areas of math, and printed in a large 8-1/2" x 11" lay-flat format for easy photocopying. Here's an overview of the ready-to-use lists you'll find in each section:

• I. NUMBERS: THEORY AND OPERATIONS presents 40 lists including classification of real numbers, types of fractions, types of decimals, rules for various operations, big numbers, and mathematical signs and symbols.
• II. MEASUREMENT contains over 30 lists including, things that measure, measurement abbreviations, the English and Metric Systems, and U.S. money¾coins and bills.
• III. GEOMETRY offers more than 50 lists covering topics such as lines and planes, types of polygons, types of quadrilaterals, circles, Pythagorean triples, and formulas for finding area and volume.
• IV. ALGEBRA gives you over 40 lists including how to express operations algebraically, powers and roots, common factoring formulas, quadratic functions, and types of matrices.
• V. TRIGONOMETRY AND CALCULUS provides more than 30 lists including the quadrant signs of the functions, reduction formulas, integration rules, and natural logarithmic functions.
• VI. MATH IN OTHER AREAS offers more than 30 lists that tie math to other content areas, such as descriptive statistics, probability and odds, numbers in popular sports, and some mathematical facts about space.
• VII. POTPOURRI features 16 lists that explore the various aspects of math including, famous mathematicians through history, world firsts, math and superstition, and the Greek alphabet.
• VIII. SPECIAL REFERENCE LISTS FOR STUDENTS provides 10 lists of interest to students such as overcoming math anxiety, steps for solving word problems, and math web sites for students.
• IX. LISTS FOR TEACHERS' REFERENCE contains 25 lists such as how to manage a cooperative math class, sources of problems-of-the-day, how to have a parents' math night, and math web sites for teachers.
• X. REPRODUCIBLE TECHING AIDS contains an assortment of helpful reproducibles including number lines, fraction strips, algebra tiles, and various nets for making 3-D geometric shapes.

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Ages ten to fourteen are the gateway years to high school and college and are crucial to our children's advanced mathematics education. FAMILY MATH: Middle School Years contains provocative investigations to captivate older students. Together, families unlock the mystery of algebra with entertaining, nonthreatening activities. One favorite activity is called Flowerpots. By creating a garden with beans, squares, triangles, and circles, families practice the algebraic topic of solving simultaneous equations in two and three unknowns. Everyone will enjoy activities such as Maya Mathematics, Postage Problems, Four-Sock Drawers, and Math Behind the Trick Using this book will increase student readiness for high school mathematics course work. Parents will learn the answers to: Are there ways to help my children without being a math expert? and What are the implications of taking or not taking eighth grade algebra? For families, classroom teachers, and anyone interested ! in setting up a FAMILY MATH class. Grades 5-8.

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Takehome Teacher, written by veteran middle-school math teacher Brian Kahover, puts everything you need to know about middle-school math in one convenient, easy-to-use, handbook. Takhome Teacher was written to help parents and students work their way through the entire spectrum of middle-school/junior high math - from decimals, number theory, and statistics to geometry, equations, and polynomials. Takehome Teacher gives clear, concise explanations of practically every concept covered in grades six through eight. It is laid out with a logical progression of skills and has a handy index for finding information on any concept or vocabulary term presented in the text. The main purpose of Takehome Teacher is to help students complete their homework and to make parents feel comfortable helping them along the way. (Parents may also learn a few things they may not remember or never really understood!) Completed homework leads to greater understanding, which leads to increased confidence and self-esteem. And, a solid grasp of math fundamentals will not only benefit students in high school but throughout their lives. With high-stakes testing such an important part of today's public school education, Takehome Teacher is an important tool for helping students raise grades and improve test scores. It should take its place on the shelf next to the family dctionary and encyclopedias.

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Amazing Facts and Quick Companion Word Problems That Build Skills in Multiplication, Division, Fractions, Decimals, Percentages, and More
Perfect for Problem of the Day!
Build on kids' love of amazing facts to boost key math skills.

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