Making Math Connections
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"Making Math Connections integrates mathematics into a variety of subject areas and real-life settings, providing motivation for students to want to learn the material being presented. The book also uses a variety of activities to promote learning for students with different interests and learning styles."
-Steven P. Isaak, Mathematics Teacher
Advanced Technologies Academy, Las Vegas, NV
Spark student learning by making an authentic connection between math and real-life experiences!
Students often fail to make the connection between "school math" and their everyday lives, becoming passive recipients of isolated, memorized rules and formulas. This remarkable new resource will help students become active problem-solvers who see mathematics as a meaningful tool that can be used outside the classroom.
Hope Martin applies more than 40 years of teaching experience to developing a myriad of high-interest, meaningful math investigations. Using a teacher-friendly format, she shows educators how to integrate into the math curriculum engaging, everyday topics, such as forensics, natural disasters, tessellations, the stock market, and literature.
This project-based resource encourages cooperative, interactive learning experiences that not only help students make connections between various math skills but also make important connections to the real world. Aligned to NCTM standards, these mathematical applications are broken down into complete units focusing on different topics. Each chapter includes:
- Background information on the topic
- Step-by-step procedures for math investigations
- Assessment strategies
- Journal questions
- Reproducible worksheets
- Additional related readings and Internet Web sites
By increasing their awareness of meaningful everyday applications, students will learn to use math as an essential tool in their daily lives.
Contents
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Author
Alignment With NCTM Standards
Alignment With NCTM Standards
1. Our Earth: Natural Disasters
- Introduction
- Earthquakes
- Volcanoes
- Hurricanes
- Tornadoes
- Additional Reading
- Internet Web Sites
2. Physics, Formulas, and Math
- Introduction
- Sports Balls and Density
- Swings of the Pendulum
- Roller Coasters: How Fast Are We Falling?
- Additional Reading
- Internet Web Sites
3. Our Body Systems, Forensics, and Math
- Introduction
- Our Remarkable Heart
- The Sum of the Parts: How Long Is Your Digestive System?
- Find Your Body's Ratios
- Forensics and the Human Skeleton
- Fingerprints: A Unique Classification
- Additional Reading
4. Quilts, Tessellations, and Three-Dimensional Geometry
- Introduction
- The Geometry of Quilts
- The Hawaiian Quilt Square
- Semi-Regular Tessellations: Designs and Angles
- Platonic Solids: Designs in Three Dimensions
- Additional Reading
- Internet Web Sites
5. The Stock Market Project
- Introduction
- How to Read a Stock Listing and Deciding on a Stock
- First Week to Buy Stock
- Week-to-Week Stock Market
- Sell Week
- Buying More Stock
- Our Final Sell Week
- Additional Reading
- Internet Web Sites
6. Math and Literature
- Introduction
- Looking for Math in Poetry: Capture-Recapture: How Many Beans?
- Looking for Math in Poetry: Flavors of Ice Cream
- Looking for Math in Poetry: Overdue Book Fines
- Traveling to Lilliput: How Little Were the Lilliputians?
- A Million Is a Very Big Number: Spending $1,000,000
- A Million Is a Very Big Number: How Big a Box Do We Need for 1,000,000 Pennies?
- A Million Is a Very Big Number: A Million Stars
- Additional Reading
- Internet Web Sites
Resource A: Alternatives to Traditional Assessment
Resource A: Alternatives to Traditional Assessment
Resource B: Design Your Own Lessons
Resource B: Design Your Own Lessons
Bibliography
Bibliography
Additional materials
Description
"Making Math Connections integrates mathematics into a variety of subject areas and real-life settings, providing motivation for students to want to learn the material being presented. The book also uses a variety of activities to promote learning for students with different interests and learning styles."
-Steven P. Isaak, Mathematics Teacher
Advanced Technologies Academy, Las Vegas, NV
Spark student learning by making an authentic connection between math and real-life experiences!
Students often fail to make the connection between "school math" and their everyday lives, becoming passive recipients of isolated, memorized rules and formulas. This remarkable new resource will help students become active problem-solvers who see mathematics as a meaningful tool that can be used outside the classroom.
Hope Martin applies more than 40 years of teaching experience to developing a myriad of high-interest, meaningful math investigations. Using a teacher-friendly format, she shows educators how to integrate into the math curriculum engaging, everyday topics, such as forensics, natural disasters, tessellations, the stock market, and literature.
This project-based resource encourages cooperative, interactive learning experiences that not only help students make connections between various math skills but also make important connections to the real world. Aligned to NCTM standards, these mathematical applications are broken down into complete units focusing on different topics. Each chapter includes:
- Background information on the topic
- Step-by-step procedures for math investigations
- Assessment strategies
- Journal questions
- Reproducible worksheets
- Additional related readings and Internet Web sites
By increasing their awareness of meaningful everyday applications, students will learn to use math as an essential tool in their daily lives.
Contents
Preface
Preface
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Author
Alignment With NCTM Standards
Alignment With NCTM Standards
1. Our Earth: Natural Disasters
- Introduction
- Earthquakes
- Volcanoes
- Hurricanes
- Tornadoes
- Additional Reading
- Internet Web Sites
2. Physics, Formulas, and Math
- Introduction
- Sports Balls and Density
- Swings of the Pendulum
- Roller Coasters: How Fast Are We Falling?
- Additional Reading
- Internet Web Sites
3. Our Body Systems, Forensics, and Math
- Introduction
- Our Remarkable Heart
- The Sum of the Parts: How Long Is Your Digestive System?
- Find Your Body's Ratios
- Forensics and the Human Skeleton
- Fingerprints: A Unique Classification
- Additional Reading
4. Quilts, Tessellations, and Three-Dimensional Geometry
- Introduction
- The Geometry of Quilts
- The Hawaiian Quilt Square
- Semi-Regular Tessellations: Designs and Angles
- Platonic Solids: Designs in Three Dimensions
- Additional Reading
- Internet Web Sites
5. The Stock Market Project
- Introduction
- How to Read a Stock Listing and Deciding on a Stock
- First Week to Buy Stock
- Week-to-Week Stock Market
- Sell Week
- Buying More Stock
- Our Final Sell Week
- Additional Reading
- Internet Web Sites
6. Math and Literature
- Introduction
- Looking for Math in Poetry: Capture-Recapture: How Many Beans?
- Looking for Math in Poetry: Flavors of Ice Cream
- Looking for Math in Poetry: Overdue Book Fines
- Traveling to Lilliput: How Little Were the Lilliputians?
- A Million Is a Very Big Number: Spending $1,000,000
- A Million Is a Very Big Number: How Big a Box Do We Need for 1,000,000 Pennies?
- A Million Is a Very Big Number: A Million Stars
- Additional Reading
- Internet Web Sites
Resource A: Alternatives to Traditional Assessment
Resource A: Alternatives to Traditional Assessment
Resource B: Design Your Own Lessons
Resource B: Design Your Own Lessons
Bibliography
Bibliography
Additional materials
Reviews
Making Math Connections
Using Real-World Applications With Middle School Students
July 2006 | 216 pages | Corwin
| Format | Published Date | ISBN | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paperback | 27/02/2023 | 9781412937665 | $42.95 |
| Hardcover | 27/02/2023 | 9781412937658 | $94.95 |
"Making Math Connections integrates mathematics into a variety of subject areas and real-life settings, providing motivation for students to want to learn the material being presented. The book also uses a variety of activities to promote learning for students with different interests and learning styles."
-Steven P. Isaak, Mathematics Teacher
Advanced Technologies Academy, Las Vegas, NV
Spark student learning by making an authentic connection between math and real-life experiences!
Students often fail to make the connection between "school math" and their everyday lives, becoming passive recipients of isolated, memorized rules and formulas. This remarkable new resource will help students become active problem-solvers who see mathematics as a meaningful tool that can be used outside the classroom.
Hope Martin applies more than 40 years of teaching experience to developing a myriad of high-interest, meaningful math investigations. Using a teacher-friendly format, she shows educators how to integrate into the math curriculum engaging, everyday topics, such as forensics, natural disasters, tessellations, the stock market, and literature.
This project-based resource encourages cooperative, interactive learning experiences that not only help students make connections between various math skills but also make important connections to the real world. Aligned to NCTM standards, these mathematical applications are broken down into complete units focusing on different topics. Each chapter includes:
- Background information on the topic
- Step-by-step procedures for math investigations
- Assessment strategies
- Journal questions
- Reproducible worksheets
- Additional related readings and Internet Web sites
By increasing their awareness of meaningful everyday applications, students will learn to use math as an essential tool in their daily lives.
Table Of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Alignment With NCTM Standards
- 1. Our Earth: Natural Disasters
- Introduction
- Earthquakes
- Volcanoes
- Hurricanes
- Tornadoes
- Additional Reading
- Internet Web Sites
- 2. Physics, Formulas, and Math
- Introduction
- Sports Balls and Density
- Swings of the Pendulum
- Roller Coasters: How Fast Are We Falling?
- Additional Reading
- Internet Web Sites
- 3. Our Body Systems, Forensics, and Math
- Introduction
- Our Remarkable Heart
- The Sum of the Parts: How Long Is Your Digestive System?
- Find Your Body's Ratios
- Forensics and the Human Skeleton
- Fingerprints: A Unique Classification
- Additional Reading
- 4. Quilts, Tessellations, and Three-Dimensional Geometry
- Introduction
- The Geometry of Quilts
- The Hawaiian Quilt Square
- Semi-Regular Tessellations: Designs and Angles
- Platonic Solids: Designs in Three Dimensions
- Additional Reading
- Internet Web Sites
- 5. The Stock Market Project
- Introduction
- How to Read a Stock Listing and Deciding on a Stock
- First Week to Buy Stock
- Week-to-Week Stock Market
- Sell Week
- Buying More Stock
- Our Final Sell Week
- Additional Reading
- Internet Web Sites
- 6. Math and Literature
- Introduction
- Looking for Math in Poetry: Capture-Recapture: How Many Beans?
- Looking for Math in Poetry: Flavors of Ice Cream
- Looking for Math in Poetry: Overdue Book Fines
- Traveling to Lilliput: How Little Were the Lilliputians?
- A Million Is a Very Big Number: Spending $1,000,000
- A Million Is a Very Big Number: How Big a Box Do We Need for 1,000,000 Pennies?
- A Million Is a Very Big Number: A Million Stars
- Additional Reading
- Internet Web Sites
- Resource A: Alternatives to Traditional Assessment
- Resource B: Design Your Own Lessons
- Bibliography