mathematics

Easy-to-read text introduces the idea of patterns as shown in shapes or colors.

In 1934, a thirteen-year-old with a gift for numbers is offered the chance to leave her family's dairy farm to spend one term at an exclusive Philadelphia girls' school preparing for a scholarship exam.

In the fall, Mrs. Gourd and her class take a field trip to the Mighty Mart, where they see plenty of math in action.

Provides teachers with practical suggestions for teaching and assessing mathematics in the classroom.

Presents a series of activities, arranged in order of difficulty, that teach the operation of multiplication.

Teaches basic and more advanced division facts and skills, covering such topics as divisors, dividends, quotients, remainders, prime numbers, and long division, presenting practice games and activities.

An introduction to number-related words.

Text, illustrations, and suggested activities offer a common-sense approach to mathematic fundamentals for those who are slightly terrified of numbers.

Events, gags, magic tricks, and experiments to change one from a mathematical weakling into a mathematical heavyweight.

Contains over fifty math puzzles and brainteasers.