Juvenile Nonfiction : Mathematics

Photocopy master book designed to complement a remedial Math program for small groups of students. Explains the basic concepts of fractions, including the relationship between fractions, decimals and percentages. The activities are sequenced in line with standard syllabus structures, covering a number of stages as opposed to a straight year level, and will provide students with the opportunity to catch up on much-needed skills. more...

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Why is it that so many pupils are put off by maths? Seeing it as uninspiring and irrelevant and that so many choose to drop it as soon as they can? Why is it socially acceptable to be bad at maths? Does the maths curriculum really prepare pupils for life? This book presents some answers to these questions, helping teachers to think through their own attitudes to teaching and learning, and to work with pupils towards more effective and inspiring mathematical engagement. Part One of the book explores the nature of school mathematics-showing how the curriculum has been developed over the years, and how increasing effort has been devoted to improving the quality of mathematics teaching, with little apparent effect. Part Two focuses on ways of thinking about classroom mathematics which take account of social, cultural, political and historical aspects. The chapters bring together a collection of activities; resources and discussion which will help teachers develop new ways of teaching and learning maths. This book will be essential reading for all maths teachers, including maths specialists on initial teacher training courses. more...

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Comprehensive, stimulating blackline master activities to develop spatial knowledge and concepts. Included in the book are templates for a variety of 3-D shapes that can be constructed to support the activities. more...

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Blackline master activity book. Presents a range of math problem solving techniques in a gradually more complex way as each section of the book is encountered. Problems are then grouped according to the time in which the activity is intended to be completed; 5, 10 or 15 minutes, which gives teachers the opportunity to challenge those students who require extension to complete problems in the specified time. Activities are designed to suit students aged 8 - 10. more...

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This groundbreaking work features two essays written by the renowned mathematician Ilan Vardi. The first essay presents a thorough analysis of contrived problems suggested to “undesirable” applicants to the Department of Mathematics of Moscow University. His second essay gives an in-depth discussion of solutions to the Year 2000 International Mathematical Olympiad, with emphasis on the comparison of the olympiad problems to those given at the Moscow University entrance examinations. The second part of the book provides a historical background of a unique phenomenon in mathematics, which flourished in the 1970s–80s in the USSR. Specially designed math problems were used not to test students’ ingenuity and creativity but, rather, as “killer problems,” to deny access to higher education to “undesirable” applicants. The focus of this part is the 1980 essay, “Intellectual Genocide”, written by B Kanevsky and V Senderov. It is being published for the first time. Also featured is a little-known page of the Soviet history, a rare example of the oppressed organizing to defend their dignity. This is the story of the so-called Jewish People’s University, the inception of which is associated with Kanevsky, Senderov and Bella Subbotovskaya. more...

Price: $88.00