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Bob Blitzer's books are highly acclaimed for their well-conceived, relevant applications and meticulously annotated examples. This highly anticipated revision achieves the difficult balance between coverage and motivation, while helping readers develop strong problem-solving skills. This book provides readers with the skill building and practice that is so crucial as well as the applications and technology necessary to foster an appreciation of the myriad uses of mathematics.This expanded edition covers voting and apportionment and graphing theory, in addition to a wide range of topics that include set theory, logic, number theory, algebra, consumer mathematics and financial management, geometry, measurement, probability theory and statistics.For anyone interested in refreshing his/her fundamental math skills. ... Read more

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This book is truly outstanding.....
As an upper level high school mathematics teacher, I have to say that Blitzer's text "Thinking Mathematically" is truly an outstanding book! - for both the student and the teacher. He explains concepts in an extraordinarly thorough and direct way, with a lot of great worked out examples and terrific exercise sets that increase student knowledge and insight regarding the concepts and computations. Having used both this book and Blitzer's other PreCalculus text, I can honestly say that his books for the secondary market put most of the other books out there to shame - there's really just no comparison. If you're a student who really wants to learn math, or a teacher who appreciates great support materials, then you really do have to get this text, as well as Blitzer's other texts, such as "PreCalculus". You won't find a better book out there regarding secondary/college prep math and it's teaching/ applications.

Not a good book to study with
I taught a course with this book and there are several typo's in the book.

wonderful
I received my book in 2 days.It was in excellent condition, and included the instructor's cd.

Thinking Mathematically
I ordered this book, and it came faster than I expected it too. However, it was the Thinking Mathematically (Expanded 2nd Edition) Instructor's Edition CD-Rom version. I don't know if thats good or bad, but I already purchased the book from my campus bookstore and everything in this book is the same except for the CD that came with it. All and all its the service was exceptional. You should purchase it here.

Not the hardcover edition..
I needed the book "Thinking Mathematically" for a class.Since I dispise carrying hardcover books on my back, I opted for the (cheaper) paperback version.For anyone who is thinking about going a similar route, please note that the paperback version is not of the hardcover "Thinking Mathematically".This is the STUDENT SOLUTIONS MANUAL.If your class requires this too, as mine did, it's a great book for what it's intended.

Please do not purchase this book if you need to ACTUAL "Thinking Mathematically" textbook.THIS IS THE STUDENT SOLUTIONS MANUAL.

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Students throughout the world fear and dread solving word problems. As students reading skills have declined, so have their abilities to solve word problems. This book offers solutions to the most standard and non-standard word problems available. It follows the suggestions of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and incorporates the types of problems usually found on standardized math tests (PSAT, SAT, and others). ... Read more

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This book explores gender differences in math performance--and why males outperform females on high stakes standardized tests but not in the classroom. These differences are important because scores on such tests are generally used in decisions that have important consequences for students such as college admissions and job placement. The contributions in this volume present a variety of theories and research that help to explain the differences, and highlight the consequences.Illustratively, if females receive lower scores on the tests, they are likely to be exposed to fewer opportunities thereafter. ... Read more

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one-two, buckle my shoe
It's a real shame that this book is now out of print. If you have young children, and you can find a copy of this book in the used book store, buy it at any price. Kenschaft is a math professor whose daughter is also a mathematics professor. She gives incredibly useful advice on how to get your child interested in mathematics and drives a nail into the coffin of the myth that there is a "math gene", and that some (most?) people are simply genetically unsuited to do math. All too often the problem is that kids are taught that math is boring.

Why do so many popular nursery rhymes involve counting? Kenschaft points out that favourites like "one-two, buckle my shoe" and "1-2-3-4-5, I caught a fish alive" teach kids to count to ten. I never met a kid who didn't like nursery rhymes; Kenschaft offers reams of useful advice on how to kindle that spark and keep it alive.

As an aside, a really good companion volume to this one would be Sarah Flannery's "In Code - a (young woman's) mathematical journey".

READ IT AND TAKE ACTION
If you have concerns about the ... math acheivements in our country you must read this book and take action. If you have kids you will learn that they depend on you to teach them in ways that their teachers may not even be capable or prepared to do.

Math is usually taught in such a way that it actually discourages kids from liking it, feeling competent in it or wanting to pursue it.

While the primamry focus of the book is Math, its principles apply to all branches of education and learning. Learn that there are pitfalls to standardized testing and minimal competency standards.

The book includes practical advice for parents on how to encourage their children to hone their math skills and encourage their analytical skills since their teachers may not be equipped to meet children at their level in order to fully communicate and cover a subject in depth.

Seems that many teachers are not prepared to teach math in successful ways. We must put the focus and resources into preparing teachers in order to acheive the kind of results we want from their students.

The best book for parents wondering about 'reform' math
You've probably heard that youngsters who are anxious about math also do poorly in math. A lot of folks thought this was just because students with limited ability appropriately worried about the subject. Not so!

Just the other day I clipped a short piece that described a scientific study demonstrating that this "math anxiety" itself gets in the way of doing the math. The chicken that comes before this egg is not low ability but high anxiety. Finding ways to lessen that math anxiety can improve math achievement.

As a parent and as a math teacher this is important news. Many parents have worried about how they could help their children with math that is often very different from when they were kids. These studies tell us that we'd do better to try to find ways to turn a math "phobic" home into a "Math Power" place. Patricia Kenschaft's book is a wonderful blueprint for such a home 'remodeling' project.

The significant subtitle of this book is:

"How to Help Your Child Love Math, Even If You Don't."

There, as Shakespeare said, lies the rub. After all, most parents bring those same childhood math anxieties right up into their adult lives, right to the dinner (or homework) table. What Kenschaft does is to show you a wide variety of ways, starting even in pre-school, that you and your child can explore math in wholly new forms. You don't have to memorize the rules for fraction division all over again; you just need to find new ways of looking at math.

This book does the best job I have seen of describing the failings of the "old school" approach to math. It has an entire section entitled "Why so many children are damaged" including chapters entitled "How drill and kill cripples U.S. Math education" and "What every parent should know about testing and grading." (My only critique of the book is that this section is placed near the end of the book - you might read it first if you think that going back to the good ole days is the sort of change we need).

The book emphasizes the math of children up to about age 10 or 11, wrapping up with a chapter called "The Fifth Grade Crisis." I had never seen this term used before. But as a 6th grade teacher I believe she has captured an important soft spot in our math education system. Although the ups and downs of kids' math in school all sum up over many years, some important cognitive shifts take place as they open the door into adolescence. Fifth and sixth grades are often the place where they "decide" they are "no good" at math... decide they "can't do it". Kenschaft shows how much of that decision is just a reaction to some truly damaging practices in schools.

Kenschaft also encourages you to take a new view of your role in the school - beyond bakesales! She provides practical advice for you to become a school-math activist without being antagonistic. A chapter entitled "Getting along with your child's teachers" is full of good, practical advice. She concludes with a whole section about change entitled "Tweaking the Machine". Finally there are useful appendices and a great bibliography.

This book is especially powerful because it weaves the very personal with the broadly 'political'. Its combination of practical advice with broad policy discussions is unique. If you are a parent wondering how to approach the troubling questions surrounding your child's school math program, at both levels, this book will give you lots to think about.

Five Stars and Two Thumbs Up!
When I think of Dr. Patricia Kenschaft, the first image that enters my mind is that of a Unicorn. Dr. Kenschaft is a unique person for which you would be hard pressed to find an equal. Her ability to teach mathematics to virtually anyone is only the beginning of her many special talents. I consider myself priveledged to have had the opportunity to study with Dr. Kenschaft in my time as a student at Montclair State University. Even if you are never fortunate enough to cross paths with a person like her, do read her book, Math Power. It will change not only your outlook on mathematics, but your outlook on many of life's other challenges.

This book should be required reading for all parents!
Pat Kenschaft does a superb job of giving even the most math phobic parents the confidence to help his/her own children adore math. If only I had had this book when I was growing up! The explanations are very straight forward and unintimidating. Even if one is not a parent, But is afraid of math, this book is extremely helpful. ... Read more

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An essential tool for standardized tests, the Spectrum Math series offers grade-appropriate coverage of basic arithmetic and math skills. Each book features drill and skill practice in math fundamentals, as well as applications of mathematics in everyday settings.

• Standards-driven math instruction
• Chapter Pre-Tests, Chapter Tests, Mid-Book Tests and Final Tests
• Developmental exercises
• Activities that extend problem-solving and analytical abilities
• Assignment Record Sheet
• Record of Test Scores Sheet
• Answer Key

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This is a great homeschool workbook.
The lessons are easy to understand. They are broken down into very simple, logical steps.My 11 year old is teaching himself these concepts with little assistance from parents.The tear out pages make it easy for kidsand parents on the go.

We use it for enrichment at home during vacationsand weekends away from school.He is in an advanced program in sixthgrade, so the 7th grade concepts correspond quite well.We should be inthe eight grade book by summer.

The price makes it a great deal! Ihope they will publish books for high school. ... Read more

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Brushing up on math has never been easier!

Just about everyone can use some extra help improving or remembering basic math skills. Finally, all the information you need to master the basics, once and for all, is at your fingertips. Featuring several overviews of a multitude of mathematical concepts, as well as detailed learning plans, Mathematics Made Simple presents the information you need in clear, concise lessons that make math fun to study.Easy-to-use features include:

* complete coverage of fractions, decimals, percents, algebra, linear equations, graphs, probability, geometry, and trigonometry
* step-by-step solutions to every problem
*multiple choice tests to help you monitor your progress
* a final, comprehensive test that makes it easy to pinpoint your strengths and target areas that need work
* glossaries of relevant mathematical terms
* sidebars that introduce real-life applications of mathematical principles

Void of lengthy explanations and difficult computations, Mathematics Made Simple will banish your math anxiety forever. ... Read more

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decent supplement - not an introduction
This book calls itself a "complete introduction to algebra, geometry and trigonometry", I disagree. This book is not a good starting point for those wanting to learn these branches of mathematics for the first time. If you haven't studied algebra, geometry and trigonometry don't try to learn them from this book. The descriptions are not adequate for someone with no experience in these fields of math.

However, if you want a pretty decent review of math that will get you ready to take, or re-take calculus, this book works. I would expect a little more clarity in the descriptions from a 6th edition. ... Read more

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Putting It Together is for every middle school teacher looking for help and guidance in meeting the objectives of the NCTM Standards. ... Read more

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Could change the way you teach !
I'm a 6th grade math teacher whose practice was transformed by this slender little book. Although comfortably into my 40s, I am only now concluding my 3rd year of a new, second, career in middle school math. Four years ago, in the middle of my K-6 Master's program I did a search on "Middle" and "Math" - probably right here on Amazon. There was (and still is) precious little to be found. But I found this book and it was enuff !

If you would like to build a math classroom centered around problem-solving - not itty-bitty "word problems" that every kid knows are just dressed-up arithmetic sentences, but real, meaty, challenging mathematics - this is the book to start with. Tsuruda's approach to - "Problems of the Week" or POWs establishes in everyone's mind, from day one of class, that something significant is afoot. The book itself is short, sweet, personal and inspirational.

Three years ago I looked around and realized my school system would allow me the freedom to create my own math program. Unlike many younger new teachers, I was not only professionally captured by the alternatives opened by the NCTM reforms of 1988, I found a way to put them into place. I was emotionally able to shrug-off the institutional and collegial pressures toward teaching a traditional program out of a text - to teach, as so many do, as I had been taught. "Problem of the Week" sounded like a great place to center a reform-based program. It is.

Tsuruda encourages his classes to create substantial, meaningful write-ups of their problem-solving process and describes the rubric he used to score them. Both supported the notion that the PROCESS of mathematics is at least as important as the PRODUCT. Both write-up and rubric placed only partial value on a final answer... and his 'problems' were such that a single number, so often the end-point of mathematics in kids' minds, was rarely the centerpiece of their answer.

Tsuruda acknowledges the hardest part of such a program to be the crushing burden of reading and assessing such a large volume of written work. Furthermore, he states his opinion that falling below some threshold number of POWs in a year significantly diminishes effectiveness of the broad-spectrum of learning goals associated with the approach. From a few years of experience, I would have to agree. This past year I had the unique pleasure of teaching two sections of writing and I'd have to say that the demands of the POW program are greater in many ways.

If you are considering a POW-based classroom you should definitely read this book before reading the dryer collections of problems and/or 'technical' books that preach problem-solving taxonomies (although definitely read Polya's book). Be prepared for an, ahem... complex reaction from parents. Few will have seen mathematics in this form and many will, at first, perceive such extensive problems - no matter how simple the underlying arithmetic - as being "too hard". Naturally that opinion, if spread around at home, can be extremely damaging to the students confidence. This sort of thing is not typical to POW-based math programs but more general in reform mathematics. Nevertheless, you will enjoy having the inspiration of this book to launch you into a rewarding, if sometimes challenging approach to your classroom.

Teaching in the Middle Grades can be an Education
Great book for those of us who are interested in having the best classroom possible. Presenting real world challenges and assessing work in a meaningful way will help our students be prepared for their work in the world. Well done! ... Read more

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If trudging through your textbook to study and complete homework assignments has become a frustrating grind, then get ready for a smooth ride to higher test scores and outstanding grades with The Princeton Review's High School Math III Review.

We tell it to you straight, thoroughly explaining the important topics you'll need to understand to prepare for quizzes and tests, complete homework assignments effectively, and earn higher grades.We've carefully examined math textbooks just like yours to make sure that this book includes all the material essential to a thorough review.In this guide, we cover:

*Rational and Radical Expressions
*Degrees and Radians
*Trigonometry
*Complex Numbers
*Quadratic Equations
*Transformations
*Circle Rules
*Probability
*Statistics
*Conic Sections
*Logarithms

And since practicing your test-taking skills is just as important to getting good grades as knowing the material, we include two practice exams that feature the types of questions and problems that appear on in-class tests. ... Read more

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Great Book
Teaches Math in a very easy to understand way. I was able to understand everything throughly and quickly. Definitely the next best thing to doing the actual course. And user-friendly (or reader-friendly).

I relearned trig in 2 days with this book!
This book saved my skin. I found out two days before classes started that I had to take a math placement test in order to get into calculus. I had taken trig 7 years ago and forgotten it all, but this book explained everything so well, it re-taught me all my trig in two days and I aced the test! The explanations are so simple and clear, you only have to memorize three things--you'll understand everything else well enough that you can just draw a triangle and figure it out! This book summarizes everything you need to know clearly and concisely, and it gives lots of examples and problems to work. If I saw the authors right now, I'd give them a big old smooch! ... Read more

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This book contains almost 600 unusual and challenging multiple-choice problems designed for students aged 11-15. The first part consists of past papers (1988SH93) for the annual UK Schools Mathematical Challenge. The second part contains forty-two short papers of ten questions each in the same style, and are designed to fill a thirty-minute class or homework slot. This collection of unusual, high quality problems will provide an invaluable resource for all mathematics teachers. ... Read more

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Talking Mathematics in School investigates the relationship between students' discussions about mathematics in K-12 classrooms and their mathematical understanding. Beginning with a linguistic and sociolinguistic review of what is known about connections between thought, language, and learning, Lampert and Blunk consider what this research suggests for the teaching and learning of mathematical ideas and discourse. A collection of studies from various disciplinary perspectives--set in elementary and secondary classrooms, a computer-supported tutorial, and a workplace interaction--examines the nature of mathematical talk and the roles of students, teachers, tasks, and environment in producing it. ... Read more

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Peterson’s New SAT Math Workbook provides targeted test preparation for the new SAT I exam that will be introduced in March 2005. This title is designed as a self-teaching text to prepare for the mathematics sections of the SAT.At the beginning of each chapter, there is a ten-question diagnostic test to guide the student’s preparation throughout the book.At the end of each chapter is a retest that is similar to the diagnostic test.It also includes hundreds of practice problems covering geometry, algebra, fractions, and more, as well as expert test-taking strategies, flexible study planning, user-friendly design geared to the high school student, and answers with comprehensive explanations for all test items in an easy-to-use workbook format. ... Read more

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We tend to think of mathematics as uniquely rigorous, and of mathematicians as supremely smart. In his introduction to The Mathematical Experience, Gian-Carlo Rota notes that instead, "a mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof ... is more often than not a way of making sure that our minds are not playing tricks." Philip Davis and Reuben Hersh discuss everything from the nature of proof to the Euclid myth, and mathematical aesthetics to non-Cantorian set theory. They make a convincing case for the idea that mathematics is not about eternal reality, but comprises "true facts about imaginary objects" and belongs among the human sciences. ... Read more

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Informative and engaging
The authors deal with various important aspects of mathematics and about practising mathematics. They also deal with the philosophy of mathematics. By and large, they do it engagingly. Specifically, they tackle why mathematics seems to 'work'; how a mathematician actually goes about doing mathematics; they offer some light treatment of a few mathematical topics, and they illustrate mathematical thinking as well.

This book is best read by students thinking about choosing mathematics as a career, or even just as a field of study. Although, any layperson will come off with a greater appreciation of what mathematics is, and what mathematicians do.

Philosophy, History and Myths of Mathematics
The Mathematical Experience by Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh
1981 Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston

Is all of pure mathematics a meaningless game? What are the contradictions that upset the very foundations of mathematics? If a can of tuna cost $1.05 how much does two cans of tuna cost (Pg. 71)?If you think you know the answer, don't be so sure.How old are the oldest mathematical tables? What is mathematics anyway, and why does it work?Can anyone prove that 1 + 1 = 2?
This is a book about the history and philosophy of mathematics. I'm certainly not a mathematician, and there are parts of the book I will never understand, yet the balance of it made the experience well worth while.The authors presented the material so that it is interesting and (mostly) easily understood.They have a creative way of making a difficult subject exciting. They do this by giving us insights into how mathematicians work and create.They live up to the title making mathematics a human experience by adding fascinating history.Frankly I was shocked when they pointing out how even mathematicians have made questionable assumptions and taken some basic "truths" on faith.They show the beauty of math in the "Aesthetic Component" chapter. Ultimately the question that comes up again and again is the question of whether or not we can really know anything about time and space independent of our own experience to make an adequate foundation for a complete system in mathematics. If you have ever wondered about the world of mathematics and the personalities involved you might consider this book.If you are a mathematics teacher you should read this book. If you are a mathematician you could find it quite unsettling.
It contains eight chapters, each one broken up into many subtitles so if you do get bogged down in the mathematics it isn't for long. There are 440 pages.I'd like to see a much more complete glossary for people like me who need it.

Immerse yourself.
Back in the early 90's when I was an almost-penniless mathematics student I was standing in front of a bookshelf in my local bookstore and had to choose between this and Gödel, Escher, Bach. I chose this book and I still don't regret it. [I have also subsequently bought GEB :-)]
Driven by their obvious love of the subject, the authors do a credible job of tackling just what it is about mathematics that makes mathematicians love it so much, often to the bafflement of the rest of the world. A particular personal favourite is the series of four conversations between an "ideal mathematician" and, respectively, a University Public Information Officer, a philosophystudent, a positive philosopher and a sceptical classicist.
I would recommend this book to students of mathematics at any level beyond the elementary, especially those with an interest in the foundations of their subject. The authors do however acknowledge that some parts of the book will seem alien to the layman.

(probably) necessary, if not quite perfect.
As has been mentioned in the other reviews, this book takes the humanistic approach to mathematical philosophy, and the heuristic
approach to mathematical method. It does a very, very good job of presenting engaging and accessible accounts of many "advanced" topics, such as finite group theory and the forcing method. In a way, the ease with which they present these items might mislead the reader into taking them as much simpler or more superficial overall than they really are , but this is dealt with by a very liberal sprinkling of superlatives like "only a small handful of mathematicians understand X". Now this is the situation in pretty much every "popular math" book I've ever read (admittedly, not nearly enough), but here it helps to characterize my sole qualm with this book and the reviewers who praise it: overcompensation.
[can you tell yet that this is going to be another incredibly opinionated review?]
Basically, the situation is this:
The way math is presented to the general public is unsettlingly dogmatic. Sure, there's calculation, a little heuristics (mostly at around calculus level, if our average Tom or Mary can stand hanging around this long), but for the most part it's just "here's how it is: ..."
But *why*? And with this word must lie the beginnings of every mathematician's career. One simply cannot create mathematics, or even appreciate mathematics as a creative endeavor, without first digesting the fact that these amazing laws that we've been handed
and expected to just "believe and get on with it" have actually been created/discovered (to choose one is really just a matter of semantics) by real people just like you and me (assuming you're a complete weirdo who likes to make too many parenthetical remarks like me....).
And this is a great endorsement, to the intelligent general reader, of the above view. The only problem is that it overcompensates for the dogmatic status-quo. I probably would have just expected to take this with a pinch of salt (just as I expect my opinions to be taken), but apparently there's a good chance readers will come away with the unrealistic notion that mathematics can be studied just as well by studying the people who create it. I mean, sure - those budding math-ites who do this *will* have an advantage over those who don't (all other things being equal), but if you really want to *do* math (and this is where all the fun is!) you really have to get some serious problem-solving skills, and to learn anything of substance from within the last century you're going to end up having to read some very terse books indeed (*cough* Bourbaki).
This overcompensation also presents some philosophical difficulties. I completely agree that the "standard four" philosophies of math (formalism, intuitionism/constructivism, positivism, and platonism) leave something to be desired in that they neglect to account for the *huge* role played by society, and to varying degrees they neglect the role played by heuristic methods in both individual and social contexts. And I agree that any serious philosophy of math must take a *lot* of input from historical/biographical data. But one can go too far with the "social construct" idea of math, and this is done here. The "mere" fact that we are able to construct/discover/ the mathematics that we do and use it to interact with nature in the way we do is simply not trivial. I don't find it implausible that the authors might agree with this, but it's not a point emphasized enough here. You simply can't go out there and do whatever you want and expect it to work like mathematics or science. And a huge part of why both are the way they are today is because of increased emphasis on rigor. While the main advantages of this are increases in both precision and versatility of expression (that's right, rigor can *aid* creativity - just look at the work of Grothendieck!), there is something that has to be said about the objectivity of mathematics. It's true statements are really true, and in a way that largely generalizes our everyday notion of truth. But in many ways it's more - as one might overhear a mathematician say, it "has more structure". It's something in-between the trivial truth of grammatical rules (and other such stipulations) and scientific truth, which is a more faithful generalization of the everyday notion. It's difficult to define and relate all these notions of truth exactly, and that's just because they're not exact terms. In fact, most words aren't. This doesn't mean they're anything less than they were before - it just means that we've learned something new about them (an analogy due to Wittgenstein: solid materials are still solid, even though we now know that they're composed of discrete atoms connected together by force. We have simply learned something new about what it means for something to be solid).
Anyway, all this isn't explicitly negated in the book, which I'll say again is really great. Buy it, but think carefully about it. Philosophy is entirely about critical thought, even though mathematics isn't.

Math is People
Math, like any subject can be studied from the point of view of conceptual constructions or from from that of the people that did the constructing. This is absolutely a people first book.

If this were used in high school math, the world would have far, far fewer mathphobes. If you're a mathphobe, the cure is in these pages. ... Read more

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This volume of cases - the first of its kind - focuses on issues teacher leaders face in their interactions with other teachers, administrators, and parents. ... Read more

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How can you present or organize your statistical or numerical data so that they are accessible and meaningful for your readers?

Graphing Statistics & Data introduces you to the technique and art of producing good charts. Carefully written with many examples and illustrations, the book begins with an introduction to the building blocks of charts (axes, scales, and patterns) and then describes each step the reader can use to create effective and easy-to-read charts. Throughout the book, the authors use numerous examples of real data as a basis for the maps and charts. They also include a chapter that shows step-by-step how to work from the data to the finished chart. Practical textual information serves as a guide for executing each stage of preparing a chart or graph. Sound charts do not draw attention to themselves for their own sake but make the reader aware of the qualities of the statistical data. Graphing Statistics & Data enables you to create charts that effectively present your data.

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Celebrate 20 years of Mathematics Their Way -- the complete curriculum to replace, support, or supplement your existing program -- with the new 20th Anniversary Edition. Discovery and exploration using concrete materials to develop skills in addition, subtraction, pattern recognition, measurement, and more.The Twentieth Anniversary Set includes the Teacher Sourcebook and blackline masters.Grades K-2 ... Read more

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Hands-On Activities for Concrete Learning
Parents and teachers looking for ways to help children understand math -- both in their early years and as the concepts become more abstract -- will do well to start with the exercises herein. Kids internalize the concepts by discovering principles of mathematics (and science) on their own. Material requirements give a purpose to those seemingly useless odds and ends the children won't allow you to throw away.

Children should probably not be allowed to do pencil-and-paper math before doing the exercises in this book. Algebra and geometry teachers would certainly have an easier time of it if this book were universally applied. ... Read more

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Using a highly interactive approach, Sonnabend provides insight into the underlying concepts of elementary school mathematics. The text includes coverage of problem-solving, reasoning, sets, arithmetic, geometry, measurements, algebra, computers, statistics, and probability. Sonnabend's well-organized lesson format encourages students to participate in the development and explanation of concepts establishing a solid understanding of mathematics. ... Read more

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Mathematics for Elementary Teachers : An Interactive Approac
Great book for teachers. Considers the psychology of students with developing understanding of maths. ... Read more