Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail
by Danica McKellar
from Plume
The runaway national bestseller, now in paperback
Math on Call: A Mathematics Handbook
from Great Source Education Group
40 Fabulous Math Mysteries Kids Can't Resist (Grades 4-8)
by Marcia Miller
from Teaching Resources
Greedy Triangle (Scholastic Bookshelf)
by Marilyn Burns
from Scholastic Paperbacks
Bored and dissatisfied with his life, a triangle visits a local shapeshifter to add another angle to his shape. Poof! He becomes a quadrilateral. But then he gets greedy and keeps adding angles until he's completely transformed. Kids will enjoy this boldly colorful introduction to shapes and basic math concepts.
Now available in Scholastic Bookshelf editions, the Brainy Day Books have been developed by nationally acclaimed math educator and best-selling author Marilyn Burns. Using entertaining fictional stories, these books dispel the myth that math is dry, inaccessible, and unimaginative. At the end of each book, there's a special section that further outlines math concepts and provides questions to further engage children.
Geometry
by Ray C. Jurgensen
from Houghton Mifflin McDougall Littell
Algebra 1: Practice Workbook With Examples
from Houghton Mifflin Company
Addition 0 to 12 (Brighter Child Flash Cards)
by School Specialty Publishing
from Brighter Child
Brighter Child Addition 0 to 12 Flash Cards offer children a fun and easy way to practice their addition skills. Featuring 54 cards with two addition problems, plus the answers on every card. Bright, bold numbers are placed on a white background for easy reading. A special card also offers creative game ideas designed to reinforce learning.
The popular Brighter Child® Flash Cards give children a fun and easy way to practice important skills. Offering 24 titles encompassing preschool to grade 5, each title focuses on an important subject including early concepts, math, phonics, and U.S. History. Fun game ideas and learning suggestions are included to help children build proficiency and confidence. Game cards also allow children to develop thinking, decision-making, turn-taking, and social skills while playing fun games at the same time.
Selected titles are also available in English-Spanish and Spanish only versions.
Geometry
by Ron Larson
from Houghton Mifflin Company
Grapes Of Math (bkshelf) (Scholastic Bookshelf)
by Greg Tang
from Scholastic Paperbacks
How is it possible to count a complicated pattern of strawberry seeds or grapes on a vine or camel humps--in a blink of an eye? If children can open their minds to new ways of perceiving math, anything is possible! Greg Tang shows readers creative ways to use patterns and combinations of numbers to solve math puzzles quickly and effectively. Rather than laboriously counting 24 mushroom slices on a pizza, Tang suggests: "Let me give you some advice, / Just do half and count twice." And in adding the number of dots on a fan: "Instead of seeing groups of threes, / Count by fives and it's a breeze!"
Every two-page spread features cheerful computer-generated art by Harry Briggs, depicting rows of camels, beaches full of seashells, and vines laden with grapes. Tang's witty little accompanying verses tickle the fancy even as they challenge the mind. Guided by hints in the verses, readers find solutions to each math riddle, by looking "askew" to find a pattern, subtracting in order to add, or adding numbers that have easy sums before clustering them to add in groups. Solutions and explanations are provided in the back of the book. With a little creativity and common sense, as opposed to formulas and memorization, Tang believes that all kids can do well in math--and have fun while they're at it. Readers of The Grapes of Math are already ahead of the game. (Ages 6 to 10) --Emilie Coulter
Category: Math Skills"How many grapes are on the vine? Counting each takes too much time. Never Fear, I have a hunchThere is a match for every bunch!"Greg Tang, a lifelong lover of math, shares the techniques that have helped him solve problems in the most creative ways! Harry Briggs's vibrant & inviting illustrations create a perfect environment for these innovative games. So open your mind-and have fun!"This...clever math book uses rhyming couplets... riddles...visual clues to help the reader find new ways to group numbers for quick counting...A winning addition!" --Kirkus
Subtraction 0 to 12 Flash Cards (Brighter Child Flash Cards)
by School Specialty Publishing
from Brighter Child
Brighter Child subtraction 0 to 12 Flash Cards offer children a fun and easy way to practice their subtraction skills. Featuring 54 cards with two subtraction problems, plus the answers on every card. Bright, bold numbers are placed on a white background for easy reading. A special card also offers creative game ideas designed to reinforce learning.
The popular Brighter Child® Flash Cards give children a fun and easy way to practice important skills. Offering 24 titles encompassing preschool to grade 5, each title focuses on an important subject including early concepts, math, phonics, and U.S. History. Fun game ideas and learning suggestions are included to help children build proficiency and confidence. Game cards also allow children to develop thinking, decision-making, turn-taking, and social skills while playing fun games at the same time.
Selected titles are also available in English-Spanish and Spanish only versions.
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