Dear Citizen Math
Author: Karim Ani
Publisher:
Published: 2021-04-30
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781736408513
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring the critical role that math educators can play in creating a more rational and respectful society.
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Power Up Your Math Community
Author: Holly Burwell
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2024-09-02
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1071963058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA yearlong learning adventure designed to help you build a vibrant math community A powerful math community is an active group of educators, students, and families, alive with positive energy, efficacy, and a passion for mathematics. Students, teachers, and leaders see themselves and each other as mathematically capable and experience mathematics as a joyful activity. Power Up Your Math Community is a hands-on, 10-month guide designed to help you and your school maximize your students’ math learning and strengthen your mathematics teaching and learning community. Each chapter offers a month’s worth of practice-based professional learning focused on a desired math habit alongside parallel math problems and learning activities for teachers to use themselves and with students. This format allows educators to work together to improve math teaching and learning across a school year, building a strong foundation for students′ mathematical proficiency, identity, and agency. The book ignites solutions and advocates for rigorous and joyful mathematics instruction for everyone—including school leaders, teachers, students, and their families. Authors Holly Burwell and Sue Chapman provide educators with a detailed roadmap for creating a positive and effective math community that supports all students′ mathematical learning by Offering guidance on building a math community with chapter vignettes and prompts such as Mathematical Me, Let’s Do Some Math, Since We Met Last, Let’s Try It, Math Talks, Manipulatives and Models Matter, Game Time, and more Emphasizing an assets-based approach to teaching math that recognizes the unique strengths and experiences of each student Providing strategies for promoting growth mindset in math and equity and inclusion in math education Focusing on both classroom-level and building-level improvement as well as offering support for teachers, instructional coaches, principals, and district leaders Power Up Your Math Community will inspire you to reimagine the way you teach math and empower you with the tools to make a lasting impact on your students′ mathematical understanding. So, get ready to power up your math community and watch as your students thrive in their mathematical journey!
Bringing Project-Based Learning to Life in Mathematics, K-12
Author: Maggie Lee McHugh
Publisher: Corwin Press
Published: 2023-05-09
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1071915649
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGo beyond problem-solving and performance tasks. Bring project-based learning to life! Do you want your students to be more engaged in their mathematics lessons while also amplifying cultural relevancy and equity? If so, proceed to the next level of instruction with project-based learning (PBL)! This book provides the whole PBL game plan designed by an experienced, award-winning teacher and researcher. Whether you want to start with small steps or you are ready for full implementation in your classroom, project-based learning experiences can lead to forever memories and deeper learning for your students. Answering the why, what, and how of embarking on the journey toward PBL, readers will find Need-to-Know questions to open each chapter Student and educator vignettes to identify stumbling blocks and successes PBL Plus Tips that identify those small steps teachers can make to gradually shift toward PBL Your Turn prompts to actively connect ideas to your practice This approachable guide includes everything you need to move from tasks to memorable project-based experiences that leverage student voice and choice and build a welcoming classroom culture!
One Odd Day
Author: Doris Fisher
Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
Published: 2006-08-20
Total Pages: 18
ISBN-13: 9781607180128
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA boy awakens to find that everything around him is odd, from three sleeves on his shirt and five legs on his dog to clocks and calendars with only odd numbers. Includes a three-page "For Creative Minds" section with odd fun facts and number games.
Bat Count: A Citizen Science Story
Author: Anna Forrester
Publisher: Arbordale Publishing
Published: 2017-02-10
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 1643511343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJojo is prepping for an exciting night; it’s time for the bat count! Bats have always been a welcome presence during the summers in the family barn. But over the years, the numbers have dwindled as many bats in the area caught white-nose syndrome. Jojo and her family count the bats and send the numbers to scientists who study bats, to see if the bat population can recover. On a summer evening, the family quietly makes their way to the lawn to watch the sky and count the visitors to their farm. This fictional story includes a 4-page For Creative Minds section in the back of the book and a 65-page cross-curricular Teaching Activity Guide online. Bat Count is vetted by experts and designed to encourage parental engagement. Its extensive back matter helps teachers with time-saving lesson ideas, provides extensions for science, math, and social studies units, and uses inquiry-based learning to help build critical thinking skills in young readers. The Spanish translation supports ELL and dual-language programs. The interactive ebook reads aloud in both English and Spanish with word highlighting and audio speed control to promote oral language skills, fluency, pronunciation, text engagement, and reading comprehension. Tap animals and other things that make noise to hear their sounds.
Dear Cisco, Dear Keith
Author: Darryl L. Fortson, MD
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2010-02-27
Total Pages: 174
ISBN-13: 1450013228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the fall of 2007, a fraternity man of Christian faith and a physician traveled back to his college alma mater after a long hiatus to celebrate his college homecoming. He encountered the usual old friends and heard and told stories from the frat house of a generation past. But something else happened in the midst of the Homecoming parade, the football game, the tailgate party, and the memories—the man of faith kept talking about God, and everybody kept talking about God to him. With music blaring in the nightclub and people partying all around, one of those fraternity brothers said to that man of faith, “you need to write a book.” They called that “Bruh” (short for “brother”) Cisco, and so it is to Cisco and to the author’s former medical school roommate, fraternity brother, and best friend since childhood, Keith, that this book is written. Dear Cisco, Dear Keith: A Frat Brother’s Letters On God, His Love, His People, And Their Struggles authored by the emerging exhorter of the Christian faith, Darryl L. Fortson, MD, is a compelling collection of letters on the relevance of God’s Holy Word in everyday life. Combining Holy Scripture with a down-to-earth and sometimes comical literary style, Dr. Fortson addresses an eclectic range of topics from faith to Viagra, from abortion to surgery, and from prayer to the “N-word” in a way that is bereft of pretense but full of power. Dear Cisco, Dear Keith is a concise but powerful read that will cause you to look at the mundane experiences, as Dr. Fortson puts it, “upside-in” and “outside down,” seeing God’s hand and guidance right where we stand, and helping us to humbly answer the question for ourselves: What does God have to do with my everyday life?
The New Mathematical Coloring Book
Author: Alexander Soifer
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 838
ISBN-13: 1071635972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMathematics for Human Flourishing
Author: Francis Su
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2020-01-07
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0300237138
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The ancient Greeks argued that the best life was filled with beauty, truth, justice, play and love. The mathematician Francis Su knows just where to find them."--Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine" This is perhaps the most important mathematics book of our time. Francis Su shows mathematics is an experience of the mind and, most important, of the heart."--James Tanton, Global Math Project For mathematician Francis Su, a society without mathematical affection is like a city without concerts, parks, or museums. To miss out on mathematics is to live without experiencing some of humanity's most beautiful ideas. In this profound book, written for a wide audience but especially for those disenchanted by their past experiences, an award-winning mathematician and educator weaves parables, puzzles, and personal reflections to show how mathematics meets basic human desires--such as for play, beauty, freedom, justice, and love--and cultivates virtues essential for human flourishing. These desires and virtues, and the stories told here, reveal how mathematics is intimately tied to being human. Some lessons emerge from those who have struggled, including philosopher Simone Weil, whose own mathematical contributions were overshadowed by her brother's, and Christopher Jackson, who discovered mathematics as an inmate in a federal prison. Christopher's letters to the author appear throughout the book and show how this intellectual pursuit can--and must--be open to all.
The Survival of a Mathematician
Author: Steven George Krantz
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 0821846299
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"One of the themes of the book is how to have a fulfilling professional life. In order to achieve this goal, Krantz discusses keeping a vigorous scholarly program going and finding new challenges, as well as dealing with the everyday tasks of research, teaching, and administration." "In short, this is a survival manual for the professional mathematician - both in academics and in industry and government agencies. It is a sequel to the author's A Mathematician's Survival Guide."--BOOK JACKET.
Math Trailblazers
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Publisher: Kendall Hunt
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9780787281519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA research based, NSF funded, K5 mathematics program integrating math, science and language arts. Includes a Spanish translantion of instuctional units.
