8 - 9 Geometric Thinking - Activities
- About teaching mathematics: K-8 (ENC-008504) The goal of this book is to help educators implement mathematics instruction that develops students who feel mathematically secure, use numbers confidently to come to decisions, understand mathematical principles, and can apply their understanding to problem solving situations. The three parts of the book address basic math education topics, 200 classroom problem solving activities, and the changing nature of mathematics instruction.
- Family math (ENC-000589) This book contains activities from the Family Math program; the program focuses on parents and children learning mathematics together. Activities involve experimenting, discovering, mathematical reasoning, and problem solving. Many activities develop understanding with hands-on materials. Topics include arithmetic, geometry, probability, statistics, measurement, logic, estimation, calculators, computers, careers, and recognition of patterns and relationships. The book contains ideas for creating an environment that makes mathematics seem attractive and interesting for children and includes ideas for parents to consider as they do mathematics at home.
- Math problem-solving brain teasers: challenging (ENC-012870) This book contains problems designed to allow the student to see the practicality and fun of mathematics. Problems include investigating angles in billiard table geometry, finding numerical palindromes, and using Origami to demonstrate geometric theorems. Included for each activity are teacher notes that contain information helpful to students' understanding of the activity and solutions to all problems.
- Sunshine math-Pluto Grade 8 (ENC-013669) This resource binder, part of the SUNSHINE MATH SUPERSTARS III enrichment program, contains 27 activity sheets for grade 8 mathematics, featuring problems that include solving systems of equations, computing averages, and finding probabilities. The answer section contains commentary on each problem with suggestions for parallel problems to use to stimulate discussion.
- Videotapes Math Vantage videotape series (ENC-014728) What's your angle? The series of videotapes aims to motivate pre-algebra students with high energy footage of real world situations that illustrate key mathematical concepts and applications. This videotape, in a unit titled Spatial Sense, illustrates angles in sports, food, plants, animals, martial arts, body movements, and automobiles. The videotape includes a teacher's resource book with lesson suggestions and student worksheet packages designed to help students visualize, estimate, and measure angles and slope.
- Math Vantage videotape series (ENC-014729) Trusting triangles The series of videotapes aims to motivate pre-algebra students with high energy footage of real world situations that illustrate key mathematical concepts and applications. This video, in a unit titled Spatial Sense, investigates types and aspects of triangles with such objects as a bicycle and a pizza. Topics include the Pythagorean Theorem, triangulation methods, tangent ratios, and parallax. The videotape includes a teacher's resource book with lesson suggestions and student worksheet packages designed to help students develop an understanding of the triangle as a foundation for construction and a tool of measurement.
- Math Vantage videotape series (ENC-014727) 2D visions in a 3D world The series of videotapes aims to motivate pre-algebra students with high energy footage of real world situations that illustrate key mathematical concepts and applications. This videotape, in a unit titled Spatial Sense, explores and illustrates spatial concepts, including several techniques for making two-dimensional surfaces appear three-dimensional: light and shadow, perspective, motion, and binocular vision. The material shows several arenas in which the translation between dimensional representations is important: art, video arcades, laparoscopic (videoscopic) surgery, air traffic control, and sky diving. The videotape includes a teacher's resource book with lesson suggestions and student worksheet packages to help students practice and develop spatial skills.
- Math Vantage videotape series (ENC-014730) A world of quadrilaterals The series of videotapes aims to motivate pre-algebra students with high energy footage of real world situations that illustrate key mathematical concepts and applications. This video, in a unit titled Spatial Sense, portrays quadrilaterals as very common shapes in the world of created objects. The importance of categorizing quadrilaterals is exemplified, showing a paleontological dig site where a square grid system of five foot squares is used to organize space. Formulas for the area of rectangles, parallelograms, and trapezoids are explained visually. The videotape includes a teacher's resource book with lesson suggestions and student worksheet packages designed to help students gain skill in using quadrilaterals to represent the physical world.
- Math Vantage videotape series (ENC-014731) Going around in circles The series of videotapes aims to motivate pre-algebra students with high energy footage of real world situations that illustrate key mathematical concepts and applications. This video, in a unit titled Spatial Sense, primarily examines circles; however, various curves such as parabolas, ellipses, hyperbolas, catenary curves, and helixes are mentioned briefly. Aspects of curves and circles are examined using amusement park rides, care races, car engines, and the weather. The videotape includes a teacher's resource book with lesson suggestions and student worksheet packages designed to help students develop an appreciation of circles and other curves as shapes that describe the world of motion.
- Math Vantage videotape series (ENC-014732) Containers : surface area and volume The series of videotapes aims to motivate pre-algebra students with high energy footage of real world situations that illustrate key mathematical concepts and applications. In this video, part of a unit titled Spatial Sense, packaging is used to begin an exploration of surface area and volume that covers cubes, prisms, pyramids, and cylinders. The videotape includes a teacher's resource book with lesson suggestions and student worksheet packages designed to help students develop the spatial sense skills needed to find the surface area and volume of containers.
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