Math Games for Middle School: Challenges and Skill-Builders for Students at Every Level

✍ Scribed by Mario Salvadori, Joseph P. Wright

• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 185
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

From addition and subtraction to plane and space geometry, simultaneous linear equations, and probability, this book explains middle school math with problems that kids want to solve: “Seventy-five employees of a company buy a lotto ticket together and win $22.5 million. How much does each employee get?” Intriguing facts about the history of math show what a human creation it is, and human errors are revealed through explorations of both Maya and Hindu concepts of zero as well as Mr. William Shanks’ 1858 attempt at hand-calculating pi.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 3
Dedication......Page 4
Preface......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Contents......Page 10
What Happened 20,000 Years Ago......Page 16
Counting......Page 17
International Counting Symbols......Page 18
Positional Shorthand......Page 19
Exponential Shorthand......Page 20
Math Camp 1......Page 21
The Binary Number System......Page 22
Math Camp 2......Page 24
Addition......Page 26
Math Camp 3......Page 27
Multiplication......Page 28
Math Camp 4......Page 29
Subtraction......Page 30
Math Camp 5......Page 32
Division......Page 33
Math Camp 6......Page 36
The Number Line......Page 38
Math Camp 7......Page 40
Exponents......Page 41
Math Camp 8......Page 43
Roots......Page 44
Math Camp 9......Page 46
Fractions......Page 47
Operations on Fractions......Page 48
Math Camp 10......Page 52
Working with Negative Numbers......Page 54
Math Camp 11......Page 57
Estimating and Rounding Off......Page 59
Math Camp 12......Page 61
What Is Measuring?......Page 64
Math Camp 13......Page 66
The SI System......Page 67
How to Get Used to the SI System......Page 69
Math Camp 14......Page 70
The Circle......Page 72
Math Camp 15......Page 78
The Triangle......Page 81
Math Camp 16......Page 86
The Quadrilaterals......Page 88
Math Camp 17......Page 89
The Regular Polygons......Page 91
Math Camp 18......Page 92
Space Figures Generated by Plane Figures......Page 94
Math Camp 19......Page 97
Polyhedra......Page 98
Math Camp 20......Page 99
Bar Graphs......Page 104
Straight Lines in the Cartesian Plane......Page 105
Curved Graphs......Page 108
The Asymetric Approach to π......Page 110
The Concept of Scale......Page 112
Math Camp 21......Page 114
Two Questions and Two Answers......Page 118
Math Camp 22......Page 119
The Birthday Party......Page 122
The Pizza Shop......Page 123
Using the Words of Mathematicians......Page 125
The U.S. Alpine Club......Page 127
Sitting in Class......Page 129
Math Camp 23......Page 131
Throwing Pennies......Page 134
The Car License-Plate Game......Page 137
Shooting Craps (the Simple Way)......Page 139
Math Camp 24......Page 141
Answers: Answers to Math Camps......Page 144
F......Page 180
N......Page 181
S......Page 182
Z......Page 183

✦ Subjects

Педагогика;Методики преподавания;Методика преподавания математики;