A celebration of mathematics that argues that the way it is being taught in schools is turning students against the subject and preventing them from seeing the beauty, logic, and joy of the subject.
A preparation guide for the SAT II: Mathematics exam, featuring reviews of materials on both the IC and IIC levels of the test, test-taking strategies, and four full-length practice exams with answers and explanations.
Provides over five hundred math word problems for practice with step-by-step answer explanations, covering fractions, decimals, percents, algebra, geometry, and miscellaneous math.
Discusses the issues that relate to the students and teachers in the mathematical science departments in colleges and universities in the United States.
Explores various aspects of mathematics to illustrate how mathematical ideas have been part of developments in science, technology, and culture throughout time and around the world, covering topics such as the invention of the concepts of zero and infinity and efforts to describe a body in motion through calculus.
Presents a comprehensive study manual for the new SAT math test and includes reviews on geometry, algebra, data analysis, and probability, four full-length practice tests, test-taking strategies, and more.
Presents mathematics activities for students in grades five through eight, selected from the Ideas department of "Arithmetic Teacher" journal, each with directions, a list of materials, a statement of applicable standards, and reproducible activity sheets.
