Making Math Meaningful: A Source Book for Teaching Middle School Math
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Description A teacher’s guide for middle school math, including: The challenge of teaching math today Practical advice and thoughts on teaching math How can we ensure that our students are prepared for high school and beyond? 6th Grade topics: Fractions Decimals Percents Mental math and math tricks Divisibility Casting out nines Exponents and roots Prime factorization Converting repeating decimals to fractions And more! 7th Grade topics: The metric system Percents Rates Ratios Irrational numbers The square root algorithm Basic geometry And more! 8th Grade topics: Pythagorean Theorem Exponential growth Proportions Area and volume Dimensional analysis (unit conversions) Basic algebra skills And more! Detailed explanations of main lessons and less well-known topics, including: Business math The golden ratio Number bases Exchange rates The Fibonacci sequence Binary and ASCII code Mental math & math tricks Gauss’s summation formula Computer algorithms Converting repeating decimals Angle theorems & proofs Archimedes’ ratio Geometric drawing The four ratios of π Platonic solids Euclidean constructions The square root algorithm And more!
