Lapses in Mathematical Reasoning

Lapses in Mathematical Reasoning
Author: V. M. Bradis
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2016-10-28
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0486816575

Unique, effective system for teaching mathematical reasoning leads students toward clearly false conclusions. Students then analyze problems to correct the errors. Covers arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and approximate computations. 1963 edition.

Classroom-Ready Rich Math Tasks, Grades 4-5

Classroom-Ready Rich Math Tasks, Grades 4-5
Author: Beth McCord Kobett
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2021-04-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1071841068

Detailed plans for helping elementary students experience deep mathematical learning Do you work tirelessly to make your math lessons meaningful, challenging, accessible, and engaging? Do you spend hours you don’t have searching for, adapting, and creating tasks to provide rich experiences for your students that supplement your mathematics curriculum? Help has arrived! Classroom Ready-Rich Math Tasks for Grades 4-5 details more than 50 research- and standards-aligned, high-cognitive-demand tasks that will have your students doing deep-problem-based learning. These ready-to-implement, engaging tasks connect skills, concepts and practices, while encouraging students to reason, problem-solve, discuss, explore multiple solution pathways, connect multiple representations, and justify their thinking. They help students monitor their own thinking and connect the mathematics they know to new situations. In other words, these tasks allow students to truly do mathematics! Written with a strengths-based lens and an attentiveness to all students, this guide includes: • Complete task-based lessons, referencing mathematics standards and practices, vocabulary, and materials • Downloadable planning tools, student resource pages, and thoughtful questions, and formative assessment prompts • Guidance on preparing, launching, facilitating, and reflecting on each task • Notes on access and equity, focusing on students’ strengths, productive struggle, and distance or alternative learning environments. With concluding guidance on adapting or creating additional rich tasks for your students, this guide will help you give all of your students the deepest, most enriching and engaging mathematics learning experience possible.

Math Challenges for the Critical Thinker, Grades 5 - 8

Math Challenges for the Critical Thinker, Grades 5 - 8
Author:
Publisher: Mark Twain Media
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2012-10-22
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1622230361

Challenge students to think outside of the box! Supplement curriculum with creative math that will enhance students' abilities to problem solve, learn and apply strategies, and think critically. Answer keys are included.

Math Skills Workout

Math Skills Workout
Author: Ann Snider
Publisher: Mailbox Books
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2001-09-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781562344627

Bolster your curriculum with this series of skill-based reproducibles and activities. Offering a full-color teacher page featuring activity objective, materials needed, and key vocabulary, this series makes math skills reinforcement fun and simple.