Math and Nonfiction, Grades 6-8

✍ Scribed by Jennifer M. Bay-Williams, Sherri L. Martinie

Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 226
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This new addition to the Math, Literature, and Nonfiction series helps teachers build on their students' natural passion for knowledge as they engage in real-world mathematical problem solving. The lessons in this book use nonfiction as a springboard to explore mathematical concepts key to the middle school curriculum. The lessons inspire students to collect and analyze data, use proportional reasoning, and explore probability, relationships between two-and three-dimensional objects, pi, and more. Each lesson includes an overview of the nonfiction title; a discussion of the lesson s mathematical focus; and a detailed narrative description of how the activity unfolds.

✦ Table of Contents

Math and Nonfiction Grades 6–8......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Contents Chart......Page 16
Lessons......Page 18
Scholastic Book of Lists......Page 20
Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, and Spheres......Page 38
Everybody Loves Ice Cream......Page 43
Fantastic Feats and Failures......Page 50
Go Figure!......Page 57
G Is for Googol......Page 66
If You Hopped Like a Frog......Page 74
The Motley Fool Investment Guide for Teens......Page 83
A Negro League Scrapbook......Page 89
One Thousand Paper Cranes......Page 99
Telling Time......Page 110
Additional Ideas......Page 116
200% of Nothing......Page 118
The All-New Book of Lists for Kids......Page 123
The Breakfast Cereal Gourmet......Page 125
Gutsy Girls......Page 129
The History of Everyday Life......Page 131
If the World Were a Village......Page 135
If You Made a Million......Page 137
Leonardo’s Horse......Page 145
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth......Page 148
The Man Who Made Parks......Page 151
Made You Look......Page 155
Mathematical Scandals......Page 157
The Mathematical Universe......Page 161
Numbers......Page 163
The Popcorn Book......Page 166
What Happened to the Mammoths?......Page 169
Blackline Masters......Page 172
References......Page 214
Index......Page 218

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