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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.
Customer Reviews:
This book makes math both fun and challenging!.......1999-10-15
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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Book Description
This best-selling novelty series for the youngest reader features a variety of intriguing and pleasing textures. The four new titles-ABC, 1-2-3, Animal Colors, and Shapes-are not only great fun, but also terrific introductions to important early-learning subject areas. Sturdy pages, interesting textures, simple text, and bright pictures make these books ideal for parent and child to share.
Customer Reviews:
good buy.......2007-10-10
I like the touch and feel aspect of the book. Unfortunately it was not done on each page.
great textures.......2007-07-21
I was looking for book with lots of textures for my son.
He loves to touch the different surfaces and this was a great book.
The colors are very vivid and there are lots of things to touch (scratchy, soft, silky, etc.).
Repetitive.......2005-02-05
The book has great colors but the textures are practically the same for the fish, the snake & the star fish. The sand castles are sandpapery & the cherry pies are sticky which are fun. Otherwise, Touch & Feel Farm is a much better book out of the two.
A magical beginner book!.......2001-02-03
I bought this book for my baby when he was 6 months old and he still shows the same excitement for it now at 12 months! In the beginning, I taught him to touch and feel the shapes and textures. Now he does it on his own and loves to turn the pages to see what's next. He especially loves the firefighter and "sticky cherries!" He enjoys the simple and colorful quality of the book. Since he's still too young and impatient for a story, this book is great. A great starter book for any baby and encourages conversation between the parent and child.
Book Description
A delightful lift-the-flap book that helps young children learn early number skills through play. My First Word Books: The complete preschool learning program to develop your child's vocabulary and early literacy skills.
Customer Reviews:
Great book for toddlers!.......2007-02-27
My 21 month old son absolutely loves this book. He actually knows his numbers from 1 -10 and recognizes a few from 11-20. Although this book only covers numbers up to 10, and I know that his knowledge can be attributed to several books, I definitely think that this interactive one gives numbers new life. He asks me to read this book with him at least 5 times a day! The pictures are wonderful and this book even has a couple of pages on addition, subtraction, colors, and shapes. Do not hesitate to buy this book, it is a great find!
Another great learning tool for numbers is the Melissa and Doug "Chunky" numbers puzzle--this is a great colorful puzzle with numbers 1-20. It also gets tons of use.
Book Description
This book recognizes that teaching math in Kindergarten has challenges that are different from those in the other primary grades. It offers kindergarten teachers a rich resource written just for them.
Kindergarten is an important beginning. It can be the positive start of a child's lifelong exploration of mathematical ideas or it can lay the first stones in what can become an impenetrable wall between "real math" and "school math." Linda Schulman Dacey and Rebeka Eston present their vision of a kindergarten classroom that nurtures the growth of all students' mathematical understanding. They provide specific guidelines for how to create a thoughtful classroom environment, including how to plan for a full year of teaching and learning mathematics, how to choose mathematical tasks, and how to assess for understanding.
Book Description
If you are a bunny, try a taste, take a gander, snuffle a sniff, relish a sound, and share a hug.
Everything around is waiting.
If you are a boy, or a girl, or a dog, or a kitty do like our friend Bunny.
And enjoy.
Customer Reviews:
Beautifully Executed.......2007-09-17
This beook is a beautiful and loving way to teach the five senses to small children. I love it for my daughter and also to use in my first grade classroom. Highly recommended!
Little Book.......2007-01-29
This book should have won the Caldecott because the first time I read it, I fell in love with the fantastic pictures!!! The book was very good for all ages because it was very easy to understand!! It will help all little kis learn how to count!
love this book!.......2007-01-28
When I first saw this book, I fell in love with the illustrations of that funny little rabbit. I knew it was geared toward pre-school, but I got it anyway as a read aloud for my first grade class before we start learning the 5 senses. They really loved it too! And it helped to introduce our unit about the 5 senses.
Book Description
This title is part of a three-book Teaching Number Sense series that focuses on the critical role that number sense plays in developing mathematical understanding. Number sense encompasses a wide range of abilities, including being able to make reasonable estimates and to think and reason flexibly. These lessons help students develop good number intuition and the ability to see numbers as tools, not barriers. By encouraging young children to reason their way to solutions, teachers help students form a solid foundation upon which all of their later mathematical understanding will be built.
Lessons in this book are organized in an accessible, easy-to-read format that includes an overview, a materials list, the lesson duration, step-by-step teaching directions, and vignettes of how the lesson actually unfolded in a classroom. Each lesson concludes with a list of assessment questions to help guide teacher observations. In this book, children investigate number relationships, practice problem solving using landmark numbers, and explore ways to count, compose, and decompose numbers.
Book Description
This title is part of a three-book Teaching Number Sense series that focuses on the critical role that number sense plays in developing mathematical understanding. Number sense encompasses a wide range of abilities, including being able to make reasonable estimates and to think and reason flexibly. These lessons help students develop good number intuition and the ability to see numbers as tools, not barriers. By encouraging young children to reason their way to solutions, teachers help students form a solid foundation upon which all of their later mathematical understanding will be built.
Lessons in this book are organized in an accessible, easy-to-read format that includes an overview, a materials list, the lesson duration, step-by-step teaching directions, and vignettes of how the lesson actually unfolded in a classroom. Each lesson concludes with a list of assessment questions to help guide teacher observations. In this book, children build their understanding of counting, number relationships, and landmark numbers. They also develop computation strategies, further their understanding of composing and decomposing numbers, and develop a beginning sense of place value.
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This may surprise those who have trouble carrying the remainder in division or figuring out a 15 percent tip on a $20 lunch bill, but according to mathematician and psychologist Stanislas Dehaene, mathematics is an inborn skill. In The Number Sense, Dehaene makes a compelling case for the human mind's innate grasp of mathematics. Take, for example, the fact that place value systems (such as the Arabic numeral system we use) arose independently in four separate civilizations--evidence of a universal sense of number. Dehaene's book is filled with examples to support his thesis, from young babies' ability to "count" (i.e., to react when single objects are replaced by two or more) to examples of how brain damage affects various individuals' number sense. Even more fascinating is his discussion of the relationship between language and numbers. Though Dehaene's book is about mathematics, even those readers with the worst math anxiety will find The Number Sense an intriguing exploration of the world of numbers--and the human mind.
Book Description
The Number Sense is an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Describing experiments that show that human infants have a rudimentary number sense, Stanislas Dehaene suggests that this sense is as basic as our perception of color, and that it is wired into the brain. Dehaene shows that it was the invention of symbolic systems of numerals that started us on the climb to higher mathematics. A fascinating look at the crossroads where numbers and neurons intersect, The Number Sense offers an intriguing tour of how the structure of the brain shapes our mathematical abilities, and how our mathematics opens up a window on the human mind.
Customer Reviews:
"The number sense" revealed.......2007-10-13
This is a masterful account of how people, and animals, use their number sense to bring mathematics into their world. It uses recent advances in neuroscience and evolutionary theory to create a coherent account of how we evolved our mathematical abilities. For instance, he shows how and why we have a marvelous analog capability, a subitization capability for immediately recognizing the numerosity of small collections, and a natural knack for counting.
But he also explains how and why we are very bad at digital computations and 'unconnected' memory tasks, like remembering multiplication tables. Not much use for knowing what 7 * 8 is amongst hunter gatherers! His solution -- let children use calculators! This pragmatism, and caring attitude, pervades the book relieving math anxiety like a wine French wine reduces stress.
He attacks the "Bourbaki" school for demolishing mathematical education in France (and elsewhere) by forcing axioms down children's throats instead of gently stimulating their intuition and allowing them to use their inborn number sense. Piaget also comes under attack for not allowing that children are born with number sense, and can do 'hard sums' much earlier than Piagetian dogma allows for. This attack is backed up by references to dozens of research papers that make his case conclusive.
The final chapter is a tour-de-force overview of mathematical philosophy , with a devastating attack on Platonism and a harsh critique of formalism. He comes down (mostly) on the side of the intuitionist mathematics of Poincaré, but is quite harsh on the constructivist Brouwer.
All in all, a jaw-droppingly brilliant book on the philosophy and psychology of mathematics. I've read a few such books, and this is by far the best I've read. Start here if you want to begin to find out what mathematics might really be about. He also has a superb bibliography to lead you to more mathematical wonders.
Illuminating! Captivating! Pass the salt!.......2007-07-18
Dehaene is a witty, gifted writer with an invisible style. He elucidates his subject matter so plainly that no one could be lost. Even a complete neophyte such as I am would have no trouble following his constructs. Or better to say if I was lost, I never knew it because the book made a lot of sense to me.
As a math teacher, I had long suspected mathematics was an unnatural act of the mind. Dehaene confirms my suspicion. The chapter on patients with severed corpora callosa put me in mind of similar split brain findings in the field of linguistics.
I'm not sure about the limits on subitizing. The handful of my students with innate math reasoning seems to be able to subitize beyond what Dehaene suggests.
The evolutionary build-up should be taken with a grain of salt. Can we just observe the increasingly complex organization of living things along a continuum without making the presumption that nature is showing up a time-lapse film?
Good book.......2006-08-07
This book is a tour de force of neurology as it applies to mathematics. From anectodes and case studies of mathematical greats and autistic calculating prodigies to brain scans and theory of the evolution of our calculating ability.
The only reason I give it four stars is its obvious political correctness is parts where it fails to even consider taking group differences into account (read genes) before ascribing differences to culture. For instance, the bulk of Chinese superiority in math at grade school level is ascribed to the fact that chinese sounds for numbers is smaller than english, allowing chinese students to keep longer strings of calculations in their short-term memory. Well, this could very well be a contributive factor, but what about American second or third generation chinese who speak only english who also show heightened mathematical ability? Not a peep about that!
Of course the above is just a small complaint in the end. The book on the whole is fascinating and well worth a read.
Amazing, objective research scores an A!.......2002-01-02
Fascinating. That's the word I've been using to describe this book. From the information on numerical experiments with animals to the solid evidence presented for the hardwired concept of numbers from birth, the author ties together an amazing work.
The clear organization of the book, described from the onset, was my first clue that this was a bit more polished than other works. From a gradual examination of an innate "number sense" in even lower animals, through babies identifiying that 1+1 is not 1 or 3 but 2, up to the examination of innate calculatory facilities, this book covers it all. By the end, you will have been presented with practically all the evidence you need to make your own conclusion--and the case for the existance of the "number sense" is incredible. Psychology and neurology are both linked to the examination.
As a math teacher, I've even gleaned a few points to help in the presentation of the topic to my students. While I don't agree with all of the authors views on education, I do think he made some very profound points (the comment that standardized education has probably stunted natural development ofthe culture--specifically language--is a good example.)
Probably my only real disappointment with the book is the author's overemphasis on evolution throughout the text. Yes, most technical types unfortunately seem to be passionate about evolution's role in everything nowadays; it wouldn't have been that big a deal had the last few pages of the book not delved wholeheartedly into a philosophical expository of how mathematicians of the past were silly to have attributed the apparent design of the mind to match the universe numerically to a God, when evolution is an available alternative. However, this small distasteful thread didn't really detract from the research. (In fact, in practically all other maters the author is refreshingly objective and unbiased, examining counterpoints to his theories and conclusions.)
In all, the book still earns its five stars for rigor, fascinating material, objective examination, and clear presentation. Well worth the read, well worth the purchase.
Quality science, excellent entertainment.......2001-12-21
I received this book as a gift. I skimmed it and left it unread for months. I thought it was a cash-in on Steven Pinker's excellent The Language Instinct. But no!
When I finally read it was as impressed with Dehaene's science as with his literary flair - not to mention the excellence of his self-translation. His thesis is fascinating, his references authoratitive and his story telling masterful.
This book should fascinate everyone who can count up to two or beyond. Dry it is not. Beyond the interest he develops in the subject are the insights he gives into the ingenuity with which psychological experiments can be designed to eliminate the flaws that a layperson would think unavoidable.
There is a darker side, however. Like that other fellow with his lethal experiments with chicks to test for chemical changes relating to memory, there are allusions to intrusive experiments on living subjects . True, these were some time ago and Dehaene exhibits a proper degree of unease about them. None the less I am much more comfortable with the ingenious ape and baby tests. In my view, no matter how intriguing the question, and how beguiling arguments of research potential leading to new therapies, there is a line that should not be crossed. Dehaene, I'm glad to say, seems aware enough not to cross it.
Fascinating. Highly recommended.
Book Description
These 80-plus math activities and number games help kids to think critically about math instead of just memorizing rules. The emphasis is on the underlying relationships between numbers and the process of manipulating them. Kids get together and play games with odd and even numbers, prime and composite numbers, factors, divisors, and multiples of numbers, common and decimal fractions. Children learn the history of numbers—finger counting, number symbols in various cultures, and different ways of calculating. The book is full of riddles, puzzles, number tricks, and calculator games. Kids develop skills in estimation and computation as they become familiar with the characteristics and behavior of numbers. They will gain math confidence and be ready to take chances, find their own errors, and challenge their peers.
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