Contemporary Mathematics in Context: A Unified Approach, Course 2, Part A, Student Edition | 
| Author: Mcgraw-hill
Publisher: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2
Reading Level: All Ages
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 327
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.7
ISBN: 0078275415
Dewey Decimal Number: 511
EAN: 9780078275418
ASIN: 0078275415
Publication Date: August 5, 2002
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Product Description
A National Science Foundation (NSF) funded high school series for all students
Contemporary Mathematics in Context engages students in investigation-based, multi-day lessons organized around big ideas. Important mathematical concepts are developed in relevant contexts by students in ways that make sense to them.
Courses 1, along with Courses 2 and 3, comprise a core curriculum that upgrades the mathematics experience for all your students. Course 4 is designed for all college-bound students.
Developed with funding from the National Science Foundation, each course is the product of a four-year research, development, and evaluation process involving thousands of students in schools across the country.
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TERRIBLE July 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This curriculumn is a disaster. The Washington State schools system has forced this course on our students with terrible results. More than half of our students in high school cannot pass the state's math proficency test.
This course takes the traditional math learning process and turns it upside down. Traditionally we were taught certain formulas or algorithms and then we were taught how to apply them. Eventually working into story problems. This course does the opposite. They start with a story problem and then ask the student questions like, how would you solve this, what do you think the relationship is? Then the book will direct the student to "get with your group and try to find an algorithm."
I am an engineer, I have a very good math backround. As I tried to work with my son to help him with this course I would be baffled by what the book would be asking for. As I worked through the book I kept wondering, if I cannot figure this stuff out, how is a teenager with no math backround going to do it. To compound the fustration of trying to learn from this course the book has no solutions to its problems. A student cannot check thier work.
This particular book is linear algebra. One of the most basic concepts in linear algebra is the slope of a line. There is no place in this book where it cleary defines the slope, or tells the student how to calculate the slope, but there are pages and pages of problems that require the student to find the slope of a line.
If your child has the misfortune of being stuck in this curriculm you are going to have to find them an alternative way to learn math. Otherwise your child will be handicapped in the future job market because they will have been deprived of understanding basic math concepts.
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