Do the Math #2: The Writing on the Wall

Do the Math #2: The Writing on the Wall
Author: Wendy Lichtman
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2009-03-31
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0061877875

In this follow-up to Do the Math: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra, Tess learns that life, like algebra, sometimes has no solutions. Sometimes you just have to take a risk and figure out your own answers. The spring semester of eighth grade, like algebra, has become even more complicated for math-lover Tess. There’s the new girl at school, whom Tess is not quite sure is a friend. There’s bully Richard, who keeps playing mean pranks on her—but if she tells on him, he can finally call her a snitch, so she’s not sure she should. There’s mysterious graffiti on the wall that seems to be a math code. Is it meant for Tess to understand? Could it have anything to do with the fire set in evil Mr. Z’s classroom? Finally, Damien seems to be hanging around more than ever, but she’s not sure why— is it because he likes her, or is it just a “coincidental system” like the one she learned about in algebra class? In the end, Tess figures out that sometimes life doesn’t offer formulas to figuring out the answers. Sometimes you have to take a risk and create your own formulas and discover your own solutions, even if you make a few mistakes along the way.

Literacy and Learning in the Content Areas

Literacy and Learning in the Content Areas
Author: Sharon Kane
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 845
Release: 2018-09-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351206893

The Fourth Edition of Literacy and Learning in the Content Areas: Enhancing Knowledge in the Disciplines provides readers with the knowledge, motivation, tools, and confidence for integrating literacy in their disciplinary classrooms. Offering an original, literature-based approach to teaching disciplinary literacy, the new edition shares important ways in which teachers of courses in the disciplines can enhance student learning of subject matter and skills while also fostering their growth in the many facets of literacy. Throughout each chapter, Kane provides engaging and creative strategies and activities to make literacy come alive in discipline-specific courses and to encourage students to explore and learn in the classroom. Embedded in each chapter are examples, resources, and strategies to help readers actively engage with and implement literacy practices. These features include Teaching in Action examples by subject area; Activating Prior Knowledge activities to stimulate critical thinking to prepare readers to learn complex theoretical and conceptual material about teaching, learning, and literacy; and end-of-chapter Application Activities to apply field experiences to classroom use. New to the Fourth Edition Every chapter of this new edition is updated to reflect the current approaches, standards, and benchmarks for discipline-specific literacy. Enhanced Companion Website with BookTalks to introduce relevant books in many genres and subjects, encouraging readers to explore the books for themselves and providing a model for BookTalks in their own classrooms. Expanded practical instructional strategies for teaching literacy in math, science, and social studies. Updated to include newly published titles in children’s literature, young adult literature, and nonfiction.

Literature-Based Teaching in the Content Areas

Literature-Based Teaching in the Content Areas
Author: Carole Cox
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2011-01-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1452223661

Grounded in theory and best-practices research, this practical text provides teachers with 40 strategies for using fiction and non-fiction trade books to teach in five key content areas: language arts and reading, social studies, mathematics, science, and the arts. Each strategy provides everything a teacher needs to get started: a classroom example that models the strategy, a research-based rationale, relevant content standards, suggested books, reader-response questions and prompts, assessment ideas, examples of how to adapt the strategy for different grade levels (K–2, 3–5, and 6–8), and ideas for differentiating instruction for English language learners and struggling students. Throughout the book, student work samples and classroom vignettes bring the content to life.

Black Men in the Academy

Black Men in the Academy
Author: Brian L. McGowan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137567287

Using an anti-deficit approach, Black Men in the Academy explores narratives of resiliency, success, and achievement for black men in the academy. This book is an important text for scholars interested in promoting success in education for underrepresented minorities.

Do the Math: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra

Do the Math: Secrets, Lies, and Algebra
Author: Wendy Lichtman
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2009-02-24
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0061851450

Using concepts from algebra and relating them to life, Tess navigates the waters of friendship, popularity, and family. Math lover Tess has always used mathematical concepts to help her understand things in her life. She is surprised to find out how much math—and life—can change in eighth grade. She also has to learn about injustice and ethics when a family friend mysteriously dies, and when she witnesses a cheating episode at her school and realizes that keeping silent about it, even to get in the good graces of the cutest boy in school, only leads to more trouble. Are theorems and axioms about life fail-safe? Is there an absolute answer to everything, just as there are absolute numbers? In the end, Tess decides that her life, like the infinity sign, is always changing, but that as long as she sticks to some key principles for herself, she can handle life’s uncertainties.

Imagine Math 2

Imagine Math 2
Author: Michele Emmer
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2013-10-04
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 8847028892

Imagine mathematics, imagine with the help of mathematics, imagine new worlds, new geometries, new forms. The new volume in the series “Imagine Math” is intended to contribute to grasping how much that is interesting and new is happening in the relationships between mathematics, imagination and culture. The present book begins with the connections between mathematics, numbers, poetry and music, with the latest opera by Italian composer Claudio Ambrosini. Literature and narrative also play an important role here. There is cinema too, with the “erotic” mathematics films by Edward Frenkel, and the new short “Arithmétique “ by Munari and Rovazzani. The section on applications of mathematics features a study of ants, as well as the refined forms and surfaces generated by algorithms used in the performances by Adrien Mondot and Claire Bardainne. Last but not least, in honour of the hundredth anniversary of his birth, a mathematical, literary and theatrical homage to Alan Turing, one of the outstanding figures of the twentieth century.

Math Tools, Grades 3-12

Math Tools, Grades 3-12
Author: Harvey F. Silver
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2007-12-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1412957826

Math Tools, Grades 3-12 presents a broad collection of mathematics instruction tools that promote active, in-depth learning and help ensure that all students meet high standards. The authors, experts with years of experience in mathematics education, combine the research on learning styles with 64 classroom-tested tools, and show teachers how to use them to differentiate instruction and meet the needs of all students. Organized around four mathematical learning styles/mastery, understanding, self-expressive, and interpersonal - this resource also covers lesson design and assessment using the math tools.

Strategies for Implementing Writer's Workshop

Strategies for Implementing Writer's Workshop
Author: Richard Gentry
Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2016-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1425815170

This research-based, easy-to-use resource includes all the tools needed to create a successful Writer's Workshop and enhance student writing. Teachers will learn classroom-tested techniques and engaging instructional approaches to support all levels of writers. The resource provides sample mini lessons, activities, classroom snapshots, student resources, and more. Lesson plans are tailored to these specific grade spans: K-2, 3-5, 6-8.

Common Core First Grade 4 Today

Common Core First Grade 4 Today
Author: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Publisher: Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1483812359

Common Core First Grade 4 Today: Daily Skill Practice provides the perfect standards-based activities for each day of the week. Reinforce math and language arts Common Core State Standards along with science and social studies topics all year long in just a few minutes a day! Review essential skills in math, language arts, science, and social studies during a four-day period and assess on the fifth day with a writing prompt that corresponds with the week's activities. --Common Core 4 Today series for kindergarten through fifth grade covers 40 weeks of math, language arts, science, and social studies topics with engaging cross-curricular activities. Common Core 4 Today includes a Common Core Standards Alignment Matrix, and shows the standards covered on the assessment for the week for easy planning and documentation. Common Core 4 Today will make integrating cross-curricular practice into weekly classroom instruction a breeze!