Can Math Really be as Exciting Interesting and Fun as a Game of Tag?
Orlando, FL, November 17, 2007 --(PR.com)-- Yes - Mathematics can be as much fun and as exciting as a game of tag. Drs. Gina Gresham, Doug Brumbaugh and Enrique Ortiz have created a book that provides creative ways to help you bring enjoyable mathematics material into your teaching situations, whether it is home schooling, a classroom, or tutoring.
Each student deserves to see mathematics in fresh and stimulating ways that are captivating and motivating. The ideas presented by the authors help students become powerful mathematics thinkers as they make sense out of mathematics. NCTM’s new Focal Points that stress Number and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, and Data Analysis and Probability are emphasized. Readers are encouraged to examine each entry in this book and massage it so it benefits the children in their teaching situation.
An experienced elementary teacher who reviewed this book made the following comments: “The annotated Table of Contents is very helpful when looking for an activity and saves the teacher a lot of time. The ideas are cool. This is a good, handy reference that covers a lot of things I will be able to use in my classroom.”
This 112-page book includes 47 tricks, 61 motivational activities, and 26 games, each of which has objectives, materials, procedures, possible solutions, variations, and extensions. The authors say, “These are ideas we have implemented in our own teaching to help students explore, discover, conjecture, investigate, verify, explain, and understand mathematics in a creative and motivating way.”
Drs. Gina Gresham, Doug Brumbaugh and Enrique Ortiz are from the University of Central Florida, and have a combined total of over 90 years of teaching experience at the writing of this book. Their book is now available at Lulu.com and can be found at http://www.lulu.com/content/1198204.
Lulu.com is the premier marketplace for digital content on the Internet, with over 300,000 recently published titles, and more than 4,000 new titles added each week, created by people in 80 different countries. Lulu is changing the world of publishing by enabling the creators of books, video, periodicals, multimedia and other content to publish their work themselves with complete editorial and copyright control. With Lulu offices in the US, Canada the UK and Europe, Lulu customers can reach the globe.
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Each student deserves to see mathematics in fresh and stimulating ways that are captivating and motivating. The ideas presented by the authors help students become powerful mathematics thinkers as they make sense out of mathematics. NCTM’s new Focal Points that stress Number and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, and Data Analysis and Probability are emphasized. Readers are encouraged to examine each entry in this book and massage it so it benefits the children in their teaching situation.
An experienced elementary teacher who reviewed this book made the following comments: “The annotated Table of Contents is very helpful when looking for an activity and saves the teacher a lot of time. The ideas are cool. This is a good, handy reference that covers a lot of things I will be able to use in my classroom.”
This 112-page book includes 47 tricks, 61 motivational activities, and 26 games, each of which has objectives, materials, procedures, possible solutions, variations, and extensions. The authors say, “These are ideas we have implemented in our own teaching to help students explore, discover, conjecture, investigate, verify, explain, and understand mathematics in a creative and motivating way.”
Drs. Gina Gresham, Doug Brumbaugh and Enrique Ortiz are from the University of Central Florida, and have a combined total of over 90 years of teaching experience at the writing of this book. Their book is now available at Lulu.com and can be found at http://www.lulu.com/content/1198204.
Lulu.com is the premier marketplace for digital content on the Internet, with over 300,000 recently published titles, and more than 4,000 new titles added each week, created by people in 80 different countries. Lulu is changing the world of publishing by enabling the creators of books, video, periodicals, multimedia and other content to publish their work themselves with complete editorial and copyright control. With Lulu offices in the US, Canada the UK and Europe, Lulu customers can reach the globe.
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