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Family Math : The Middle School Years, Algebraic Reasoning and Number Sense | 
| Author: Virginia Thompson
Creator: Karen Mayfield-ingram
Publisher: University of California, Berkeley, Lawrence
Category: Book
List Price: $20.95
Buy Used: $12.49
You Save: $8.46 (40%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 365413
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 280
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 091251129X
Dewey Decimal Number: 372
EAN: 9780912511290
ASIN: 091251129X
Publication Date: December 3, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Visible shelf wear -- may have some notes/markings on pages
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Ages ten to fourteen are the gateway years to high school and college and are crucial to our children's advanced mathematics education. FAMILY MATH: Middle School Years contains provocative investigations to captivate older students. Together, families unlock the mystery of algebra with entertaining, nonthreatening activities. One favorite activity is called Flowerpots. By creating a garden with beans, squares, triangles, and circles, families practice the algebraic topic of solving simultaneous equations in two and three unknowns. Everyone will enjoy activities such as Maya Mathematics, Postage Problems, Four-Sock Drawers, and Math Behind the Trick Using this book will increase student readiness for high school mathematics course work. Parents will learn the answers to: Are there ways to help my children without being a math expert? and What are the implications of taking or not taking eighth grade algebra? For families, classroom teachers, and anyone interested ! in setting up a FAMILY MATH class. Grades 5-8.
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| Customer Reviews:
Fantastic Math Resource October 30, 2008
Family Math is an excellent guide to use in preparing Family Math Nights and giving support to parents of Middle School students who need a little refresher on math topics in order to help their children. Family Math Nights are especially helpful when students and parents work on math-related activities together. Students can take the lead in guiding their families toward solutions to fun problems. This empowers the students and allows them to show their math savviness in hands-on ways that can't be explained during a parent-teacher conferences or in report cards. Family Math Nights are great motivators that allow teachers to watch students and parents interact. This book provides all a teacher needs to prepare for these valuable events. I highly recommend it.
This book makes math both fun and challenging! October 14, 1999
23 out of 27 found this review helpful
My family really enjoyed playing the math games and doing the activities in this book. We had to put on our thinking caps and discover different math strategies. My kids loved the art in this book. There was also a lot of useful information on how much math my kids need to get into college.
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