Pre-Algebra Out Loud: Learning Mathematics Through Reading and Writing Activities

Learning to read and write efficiently regarding mathematics helps students to understand content at a deeper level. In this third book in the popular math 'Out Loud' series, Mower provides a variety of reading and writing strategies and activities suitable for elementary and middle school pre-algebra courses, covering such key skills as integers and exponents, fractions, decimals and percents, graphing, statistics, factoring, evaluating expressions, geometry and the basics of equations.

• Includes dozens of classroom tested  strategies and techniques
• Shows how reading and writing can be incorporated in any math class to improve math skills
• Provides  unique, fun activities that will keep students interested and make learning stick

This important guide offers teachers easy-to-apply lessons that will help students develop a deeper understanding of mathematics.

Pat Mower, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, prepares??teachers to teach mathematics in elementary, middle, and secondary schools. She is the author of Geometry Out Loud and Algebra Out Loud.