An essential tool for today's middle school mathematics teachers, this book helps students explore, think critically, analyze and have fun with math. In an age when teachers have to compete for their students' attention against television, video games, the Internet, peer pressure and many other factors, these workouts are designed to provide fun, thought-provoking, skill-building ways to make math exciting! Begin each math lesson with one of these engaging activities, which include: calculator tricks, factorials, time and money challenges and much more!

This book will help "turn on the light" as each workout is designed to engage students' exploration of algebra as they complete each thought-provoking, skill-building activity. Each workout is easily reproducible and includes an answer key or mini-lesson that demonstrates how to solve each problem. 14 practical teaching tips are included.

This workbook provides practice in fourth-grade mathematics skills. Emphasis is placed on multiplication using one-, two-, and three-digit factors, and on division involving one- and two-digit divisors. Practice is also provided in addition and subtraction of whole numbers and fractional numbers, and in solving word problems. The material correlates with the curriculum in most basic mathematics texts. The pages are presented in a suggested order, but may be used in any order which best meets a child's needs. Parents who wish their children to have practice in mathematics skills will find the book as helpful as classroom teachers will find it. The exercises are presented so that a child can work with a minimum of supervision. Answers are included in a four-page leaflet in the middle of the book. This leaflet can be easily removed. A glossary is available for reference on the inside back cover.

This workbook provides practice in sixth-grade mathematics skills. Emphasis is placed on addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of fractional numbers and decimal fractions. Practice is also provided in percent, in the four arithmetic operations with whole numbers, and in solving word problems. The material correlates with the curriculum in most basic mathematics texts. The pages are presented in a suggested order, but may be used in any order which best meets a child's needs. Parents who wish their children to have practice in mathematics skills will find the book as helpful as classroom teachers will find it. The exercises are presented so that a child can work with a minimum of supervision. Answers are included in a four-page leaflet in the middle of the book. This leaflet can be easily removed. A glossary is available for reference on the inside back cover.

Read a short story. Discover new things. Learn new words. Think about them. Answer some questions. Show what you know! Watch reading comprehension and retention, analytical, vocabulary and test-taking skills improve. Wow! Students will enjoy reading the 100 short stories and articles in this book, carefully written for the reading ability of early readers. The questions will help them review and analyze what they have read as well as think about the meanings of words that may be new to them.

Basic skills are reviewed and expanded as students work through 58 pages of activities. Each page gives an example and step-by-step solution of the problem presented. Some of the many skills covered include a review of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, plus challenges in decimal fractions, exponential and scientific notation, primes, probability, percents, and basic geometric principles. This workbook presents a variety of drill and practice activities for students in a two-color format. Six answer pages are provided.

This gentle introduction to discrete mathematics is written for first and second year math majors, especially those who intend to teach. The text began as a set of lecture notes for the discrete mathematics course at the University of Northern Colorado. This course serves both as an introduction to topics in discrete math and as the "introduction to proof" course for math majors. The course is usually taught with a large amount of student inquiry, and this text is written to help facilitate this. Four main topics are covered: counting, sequences, logic, and graph theory. Along the way proofs are introduced, including proofs by contradiction, proofs by induction, and combinatorial proofs. The book contains over 360 exercises, including 230 with solutions and 130 more involved problems suitable for homework. There are also Investigate! activities throughout the text to support active, inquiry based learning. While there are many fine discrete math textbooks available, this text has the following advantages: It is written to be used in an inquiry rich course. It is written to be used in a course for future math teachers. It is open source, with low cost print editions and free electronic editions.