Download or read book Hard Math for Elementary School written by Glenn Ellison and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard Math for Elementary School: Workbook is a workbook to accompany the textbook of the same name. Together the books aim to provide kids who are not challenged by their regular schoolwork with lessons that are harder, deeper, and more fun. The Hard Math textbook (sold separately) is designed to supplement what kids are getting in school. It has chapters related most standard textbook topics: addition with carrying; multiplication; fractions; etc. It covers other important topics -prime numbers, counting, probability -that are being squeezed out of many curricula. And it has chapters on topics which may not be as important-tiling floors, solving number puzzles, squaring big numbers in your head, making polyhedra out of marshmallows and toothpicks-but that make the book more fun and develop higher-level reasoning skills. Hard Math for Elementary School: Workbook is an important accompaniment to the textbook. It contains more than 100 worksheets. Each worksheet contains challenging questions that help students solidify their understanding of the material that is explained in the corresponding section of the textbook. Problems in the Hard Math workbook are hard. Some are very, very hard. This reflects the author's view that hard is fun. Hopefully, talented students will come to enjoy feeling good when they get problems right instead of feeling bad whenever they get one wrong. Many worksheets contain "Making Connections" problems that reinforce what students have learned in previous chapters and "Challenge" problems that will make many teachers reach for their copy of the answer key. Parents should not buy the workbook without also getting the textbook unless their son or daughter is in a class where someone is using the textbook to teach the material. Much of the material in the workbook is not covered in standard elementary school classes and will seem idiosyncratic and confusing without the textbook.
Download or read book Hard Math for Elementary School Answer Key for Workbook written by Glenn Ellison and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard Math for Elementary School: Answer Key for Workbook provides answers to the problems in the similarly titled workbook. The problems in the Hard Math workbook are hard. Some are very hard. This is especially true of "Making Connections" problems, which require that you remember something from an earlier chapter, and "Challenge" problems, which are designed to challenge even the most advanced students (and keep them occupied). For this reason - and simply because it is a big time saver for busy parents and teachers - this answer key is made available at a very low price, and it is strongly recommended that teachers get a copy. The answer key mostly just gives answers, but it does also provide brief explanations for some of the more difficult problems.
Download or read book Hard Math for Middle School written by Glenn Ellison and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2010-09-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MIT Professor Glenn Ellison has spent more than a decade coaching math teams and developing math enrichment materials for his daughters and their classmates. His middle school Hard Math textbook and workbook contain the materials he used while coaching many successful Mathcounts teams. They are a labor of love sold at bargain prices with the hope that they will help students around the world develop a deep understanding of middle school math and enjoy every minute of it. The topics align with modern middle school curricula: fractions, decimals, percents, prime factorization, plane and spatial geometry, probability, statistics, combinatorics, algebra, modular arithmetic, etc. But Hard Math challenges students to develop a deeper understanding: it asks much harder questions than standard texts and teaches the material and problem solving strategies students need to attack them. For example, rather than asking students to write 2/5 as a decimal, it might ask students to use the fact that 99999 = 9 × 41 × 271 to find the tenth digit in the decimal expansion for 1/271. (It might ask this, but never actually does.) The personal and somewhat irreverent prose in the IMLEM Plus edition of Hard Math for Middle School speaks directly to students participating in both the Intermediate Math League of Eastern Massachusetts and Mathcounts(r). The organization of the book is also designed to serve IMLEM students. But middle school math is middle school math and the book should be great for students preparing for other math contests or just looking for general enrichment or hard problems to do. Hard Math for Middle School: Workbook, sold separately, contains over 100 worksheets. The worksheets have problems at different difficulty levels that students can use to solidify their understanding of the material in each section of the textbook. It would be crazy to buy this text and not also get a copy of the workbook unless your child is using this book in school or in an enrichment program that is already providing plenty of practice problems. Solutions to many of the problems in the workbook are currently available for free on Prof. Ellison's website. Mathcounts(r) is a registered trademark of the Mathcounts Foundation, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this book.
Download or read book Hard Math for Elementary School written by Glenn Ellison and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard math for elementary school is a math enrichment textbook, providing ideas to provide children with lessons that are harder, deeper, and more fun. It has chapters to supplement most textbook topics as well as chapters on topics, such as making polyhedra out of marshmallows and toothpicks, that make the book more fun and develop higher reasoning skills.
Download or read book Mathematics Problem Solving Challenges for Secondary School Students and Beyond written by David Linker and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a rare resource consisting of problems and solutions similar to those seen in mathematics contests from around the world. It is an excellent training resource for high school students who plan to participate in mathematics contests, and a wonderful collection of problems that can be used by teachers who wish to offer their advanced students some challenging nontraditional problems to work on to build their problem solving skills. It is also an excellent source of problems for the mathematical hobbyist who enjoys solving problems on various levels. Problems are organized by topic and level of difficulty and are cross-referenced by type, making finding many problems of a similar genre easy. An appendix with the mathematical formulas needed to solve the problems has been included for the reader's convenience. We expect that this book will expand the mathematical knowledge and help sharpen the skills of students in high schools, universities and beyond. Contents:Arithmetic and LogicAlgebraGeometryTrigonometryLogarithmsCountingNumber TheoryProbabilityFunctional Equations Readership: High school students, teachers and general public interested in exciting mathematics problems.
Download or read book Elementary School Math Contests written by Steven Doan and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elementary School Math Contests contains over 500 challenging math contest problems and detailed step-by-step solutions in Number Theory, Algebra, Counting & Probability, and Geometry. The problems and solutions are accompanied with formulas, strategies, and tips.This book is written for beginning mathletes who are interested in learning advanced problem solving and critical thinking skills in preparation for elementary and middle school math competitions.
Download or read book Understanding Numbers in Elementary School Mathematics written by Hongxi Wu and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a textbook for pre-service elementary school teachers and for current teachers who are taking professional development courses. By emphasizing the precision of mathematics, the exposition achieves a logical and coherent account of school mathematics at the appropriate level for the readership. Wu provides a comprehensive treatment of all the standard topics about numbers in the school mathematics curriculum: whole numbers, fractions, and rational numbers. Assuming no previous knowledge of mathematics, the presentation develops the basic facts about numbers from the beginning and thoroughly covers the subject matter for grades K through 7. Every single assertion is established in the context of elementary school mathematics in a manner that is completely consistent with the basic requirements of mathematics. While it is a textbook for pre-service elementary teachers, it is also a reference book that school teachers can refer to for explanations of well-known but hitherto unexplained facts. For example, the sometimes-puzzling concepts of percent, ratio, and rate are each given a treatment that is down to earth and devoid of mysticism. The fact that a negative times a negative is a positive is explained in a leisurely and comprehensible fashion.
Download or read book Hard Math for Middle School written by Glenn Ellison and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard Math for Middle School: Workbook is a workbook to accompany the textbook Hard Math for Middle School: IMLEM Plus Edition. The textbook presents topics from the standard school curriculum in greater depth, asks harder questions, and discusses problem solving strategies. It is organized around the calendar of the Intermediate Math League of Eastern Massachusetts (IMLEM) and also provides a year-long course on what students need to know to do well on MathCounts(r). It can also serve as enrichment for any student who wishes that his or her math class were harder. This workbook contains more that 100 worksheets. Each contains challenging questions that students can use to solidify their understanding of a section of the textbook and stretch their problem solving abilities. The problems range from hard to very, very hard and are arranged by difficulty level. The workbook is designed for gifted students in grades 6-8. Younger students may be interested in Prof. Ellison's Hard Math for Elementary School.
Download or read book 180 Days of Math for Third Grade written by Jodene Lynn Smith and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides teachers and parents with 180 daily-practice activities to build and gauge students' mathematical fluency. This book features quick, diagnostic-based activities and includes data-driven assessment tips. Digital resources include assessment analysis tools and pdfs of the activity sheets. With these daily practice activities, teachers and parents will be helping first graders improve their math skills in no time!
Download or read book Challenging Mathematical Problems with Elementary Solutions written by ?. ? ????? and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II of a two-part series, this book features 74 problems from various branches of mathematics. Topics include points and lines, topology, convex polygons, theory of primes, and other subjects. Complete solutions.
Download or read book Primary Grade Challenge Math written by Edward Zaccaro and published by . This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a higher level of material that goes beyond calculation skills for children in the primary grades.
Download or read book Competition Math for Elementary School written by Yongcheng Chen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book can be used by students in grades 3-5: (1) who seek material more challenging than they typically encounter in their math classroom, and (2) who would like to build a solid problem solving foundation for future math competitions such as AMC 8, Mathcounts, and other math competitions. Each chapter consists of (1) basic skill and knowledge section with plenty of examples, (2) exercise problems, and (3) detailed solutions to all exercise problems.
Download or read book Ten Magic Butterflies written by Danica McKellar and published by Crown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn at home with help from The Wonder Years/Hallmark actress, math whiz, and New York Times bestselling author Danica McKellar using her acclaimed McKellar Math books! Fairies, butterflies, and magic help to make this math-focused board book positively enchanting! Join ten flower friends for a night of excitement that mixes a little math with a lot of magic. As each flower turns into a butterfly, children will discover different ways to group numbers to create ten, an essential building block of math, all while watching each flower's dream come true. (And keep an eye out for the adorable caterpillar who wishes he could fly, too!) In this, the second book in the McKellar Math line, Danica McKellar once again sneaks in secret addition and subtraction concepts to help make your child smarter and uses her proven math success to show children that loving numbers is as easy as a wave of a wand and a BING BANG BOO! "[Danica McKellar's] bringing her love of numbers to children everywhere." --Brightly on Goodnight, Numbers "Danica McKellar is now on a mission to make math fun for even the youngest of kids." --L.A. Parent Magazine Don't Miss Even More Math Fun in Bathtime Mathtime!
Download or read book Open Middle Math written by Robert Kaplinsky and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an amazing resource for teachers who are struggling to help students develop both procedural fluency and conceptual understanding.. --Dr. Margaret (Peg) Smith, co-author of5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematical Discussions Robert Kaplinsky, the co-creator of Open Middle math problems, brings hisnew class of tasks designed to stimulate deeper thinking and lively discussion among middle and high school students in Open Middle Math: Problems That Unlock Student Thinking, Grades 6-12. The problems are characterized by a closed beginning,- meaning all students start with the same initial problem, and a closed end,- meaning there is only one correct or optimal answer. The key is that the middle is open- in the sense that there are multiple ways to approach and ultimately solve the problem. These tasks have proven enormously popular with teachers looking to assess and deepen student understanding, build student stamina, and energize their classrooms. Professional Learning Resource for Teachers: Open Middle Math is an indispensable resource for educators interested in teaching student-centered mathematics in middle and high schools consistent with the national and state standards. Sample Problems at Each Grade: The book demonstrates the Open Middle concept with sample problems ranging from dividing fractions at 6th grade to algebra, trigonometry, and calculus. Teaching Tips for Student-Centered Math Classrooms: Kaplinsky shares guidance on choosing problems, designing your own math problems, and teaching for multiple purposes, including formative assessment, identifying misconceptions, procedural fluency, and conceptual understanding. Adaptable and Accessible Math: The tasks can be solved using various strategies at different levels of sophistication, which means all students can access the problems and participate in the conversation. Open Middle Math will help math teachers transform the 6th -12th grade classroom into an environment focused on problem solving, student dialogue, and critical thinking.
Download or read book Introducing Difficult Mathematics Topics in the Elementary Classroom written by Francis J. Gardella and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting text for the pre-service elementary teacher provides hands on mathematics lessons they can use to introduce mathematical concepts and skills that students find particularly challenging. Each chapter is divided into four sections: The Activity employs an engaging thought experiment to help the reader "visit a classroom" to understand how the lesson used to introduce the concept or skill would materialize in the class. The Mathematics provides the necessary mathematical background used in the lesson to make the actual teaching/learning situation comfortable for both the teachers and the learner. The Plan provides the reader with an actual lesson plan to engage the Activity in the classroom setting. Putting It All Together pulls the previous sections together with a summary of the chapter as well as further information for making the lesson successful. By providing models of what excellent lessons on a given topic look like, knowledge of the mathematics involved, and a concrete lesson plan structure this much-needed resource is the definitive mathematics planning vehicle that every teacher will want before they set foot in their own elementary classroom.
Download or read book Productive Math Struggle written by John J. SanGiovanni and published by Corwin. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All students face struggle, and they should—it is how they learn and grow. The teacher’s job is not to remove struggle, but rather to value and harness it, helping students develop good habits of productive struggle. But what’s missing for many educators is an action plan for how to achieve this, especially when it comes to math. This book guides teachers through six specific actions—including valuing, fostering, building, planning, supporting, and reflecting on struggle—to create a game plan for overcoming obstacles by sharing · Actionable steps, activities, and tools for implementation · Instructional tasks representative of each grade level · Real-world examples showcasing classroom photos and student work
Download or read book A Problem Solving Approach to Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers written by Rick Billstein and published by Addison Wesley Longman. This book was released on 2004 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This best-selling text emphasizes solid mathematics content, problem-solving skills, and analytical techniques. The eighth edition focuses on the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Principles and Standards 2000. The text allows for a variety of approaches to teaching, encourages discussion and collaboration among students and with their instructors, allows for the integration of projects into the curriculum, and promotes discovery and active learning. Students using this text will receive solid preparation in mathematics, develop confidence in their math skills and benefit from teaching and learning techniques that really work.
