mathematics

Recreates two SAT math tests as a study guide for practice and understanding.

Delves into the world of ideas and explores the spell that mathematics casts on our lives. Includes some mathematical problems and solutions.

Presents the second in a series of books by the author to help children from ages five to eight learn simple addition and subtraction in a collection of math stories about the seasons of the year.

Presents a number of math activities related to creating movie stunts by using numbers, measurements, shapes, charts, and diagrams.

Examines the importance of math in climbing Mount Everest, and uses that format to foster an understanding of numbers, measurements, shapes, charts, and diagrams. Includes data-gathering and problem-solving exercises.

Identifies the three main features of good, or open-ended questions for teaching math to students in kindergarten through sixth grade, offers suggestions to teachers on how to create good questions, and includes a selection of good questions to use in lessons on numbers, measurement, space, and chance and data.

Contains fifty reproducible game sheets for playing a math version of tic-tac-toe in which third and fourth-grade students must solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, geometry, and other problems to claim a square on the grid.

Presents fifty reproducible game sheets for the kindergarten through second-grade math classroom that reinforce key math concepts.

The authors present a comparison of teaching methods in different cultures, and discuss the implications of their findings for the improvement of American classroom teaching.

Contains six stories of how educators and administrators look at math instruction and how they can most effectively assist teachers improve their classroom techniques.