Nicholas J. Rinaldi
R&L Education | 2013 | 97 páginas | rar - pdf | 778 kb
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Whether you are a new or an experienced teacher, Communication and Creativity in the Math Classroom provides you with classroom-tested activities and ideas which are motivating, engaging, and meaningful to students.
Traditional textbooks commonly feature conventional, un-engaging, and somewhat boring problems and activities. Communication and Creativity in the Math Classroom provides you with activities and ideas which stress life skills such as communicating more effectively, being creative, analyzing a variety of problems, following directions, and working cooperatively with others. These skills are very valuable but are rarely addressed in the traditional math curriculum. The materials and ideas in this book allow you to interject these skills into your daily lessons while covering various mathematical topics. Many of the easily reproducible activities can be used as assessments; consequently, suggested scoring rubrics are included as well as helpful strategies and observations.
ContentsPreface vii
Introduction xi
1 Let’s Begin at the Beginning 1
Opening-of-Class Activities 1
Unusual Equations 2
Three of a Kind 3
Palindrome Puzzler 4
Famous Structures 5
How Observant Are You? 6
Miscellaneous Brain Teasers 7
2 Can We Talk? 9
You and Me 9
Do I Have to Draw You a Picture? 10
Joy Ride 12
Oh, Say Can You See 14
Lady Liberty and Me 18
Talking Baseball 20
To Serve a Serving 21
Troublesome Technology 23
Is Love Transitive? 25
Student Presentations 25
Do It Up Front 29
Remember? 29
Engaging Questions/Comments 30
3 Let’s Create Creativity 31
A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Points 31
I Am a Geometric Figure 33
I Am a Number 36
Once Upon a Time 39
Game Time 41
3.14 Happy Pi Day 43
General Math, Prealgebra, and Algebra I Classes 44
Geometry Classes 44
Algebra II and More-Advanced Classes 45
Name That Pi 48
4 In Search of . . . 51
Geometry Scavenger Hunt 52
Number Scavenger Hunt 53
Transformation Treasure Trek 55
5 But Wait, There’s Still More 57
Linguini Lines 57
W-o-r-d C-h-a-i-n-s 59
Your Guess Is as Good as Mine 60
Emergency Folder 61
Random Students 62
Take Me Out to the Ball Game 63
Guess What’s on My Mind 64
The Equation of a Line 64
It’s a Sine of the Times 66
Conclusion 69
Appendix 71
Answers to Selected Exercises 75
