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Making Algebra Come Alive: Student Activities and Teacher Notes (Math Assessment Series) - Softcover

Posamentier, Alfred S.

 
9780761975977: Making Algebra Come Alive: Student Activities and Teacher Notes (Math Assessment Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0761975977 ISBN 13: 9780761975977
Publisher: Corwin, 2000

Synopsis

Activities in Algebra is a set of versatile enrichment exercises that covers a very broad range of mathematical topics and applications-from the Moebius strip to the googol. Several criteria have been used in developing the activities and in selecting the topics that are included. All of them bear heavily, and equally, on our concerns for curriculum goals and classroom management. Each activity is presented as a reproducible student investigation. It is followed by guidelines and notes for the teacher. Each activity is keyed to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Standards, Revised. This link to the NCTM standards allows teachers to facilitate linking classroom activities to specific state and school district content standards. First and foremost, the activities are meant to be motivational. As much as possible, we want this book to achieve the goal of being attractive to people who thought they didn′t like mathematics. To accomplish this, it is necessary for the activities to be quite different from what students encounter in their basal texts-different in both substance and form. This seems especially critical; no matter how excellent a basal text is being used, nearly every class experiences the "blahs." Unfortunately, this sort of boredom is often well entrenched long before the teacher and perhaps even the students are aware of it. Presenting activities on a regular basis gives the variety and change of pace needed to sustain interest in any subject.

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About the Author

Alfred S. Posamentier is professor of mathematics education and dean of the School of Education at the City College of the City University of New York. He has authored and co-authored several resource books in mathematics education for Corwin Press.

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Publisher
Corwin
Publication date
2000
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0761975977
ISBN 13 
9780761975977
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
168