Primary Algebra, Grades K-4 by Hope Martin
Primary Algebra introduces primary-level students to algebraic concepts, by taking abstract ideas and making them meaningful. Algebra is fun for young students with hands-on activities and concrete manipulatives, including Sudoku puzzles, math jokes, block patterns, dominoes, lesson extensions, and design-your-own activities. Concepts include:
Grades K-4, $19.95
Career Math, Grades 5-8 by Hope Martin
When are we ever going to use this?" Teacher Resource Book.
Help students answer this often heard question with ready-to-use, motivating math activities that apply to the real world. Students will see how math is used in professions like meteorology, medicine, food preparation, zoology, and personal fitness. Career Math:
Grades 5-8, $19.95
Active Learning in the Mathematics Classroom, Grades 5–8 by Hope Martin
Active Learning in the Mathematics Classroom, Grades 5–8 engages students directly in creative learning experiences. Attention-grabbers such as Algebra Jokes, The M&M Mystery, How Long Would It Take to Walk to China?, and Gummi Worms help students use mathematics as a powerful problem-solving tool, gain meaningful understandings of key concepts, and effectively communicate their mathematical thinking.
With step-by-step directions, suggestions, tips, and variations for implementation, this updated text provides reproducible student pages for each activity, journaling questions to engage students in writing about mathematics, and specific web site and literature resources.
Grades 5-8, $32.95
Making Math Connections - Using Real-World Applications With Middle School Students by Hope Martin
Spark student learning by making an authentic connection between math and real-life experiences! Students often fail to make the connection between "school math" and their everyday lives, becoming passive recipients of isolated, memorized rules and formulas. This remarkable new resource will help students become active problem-solvers who see mathematics as a meaningful tool that can be used outside the classroom.
Grades 5-8, $34.95
Good Morning Math by Hope Martin and Jill Martin
The "big ideas" of primary mathematics are the cornerstone of Good Morning Math. Young scholars will takes surveys with clothespins, make connections between math and literature, collect data using marshmallows, peanuts, and pumpkins, and discover that school mathematics really does make sense.
Grades K-4, 122 pp; $12.95
What Year am I?: A Math Warm-up a Day by Hope Martin
Start each class with one of these intriguing puzzles and get your students eagerly doing math in those crucial first five minutes. Each real-world warm-up, one for every day of the year, highlights an interesting event or a famous person, utilizing clues that review and preview place value, measurement, number theory, geometry, and more.
Grades 3-6, 200 pp. $24.95
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Differentiated Instruction for Mathematics - Instructions and activities for the diverse classroom by Hope Martin
Written for students in grades 5-8, Differentiated Instruction for Mathematics has hands-on, minds-on activities that are designed to be responsive to the intellectual strengths and personal interests of today's student. The activities and projects in each chapter reflect the philosophy of differentiation, provide a mathematics curriculum that is standards based, and involve students in hands-on, motivating real-world problems. The chapters are organized around the National Council of Teacher's of Mathematics Principles and Standards for School Mathematics (2000).
Grades 5-8, $23.99
730 Daily Math Warm-ups by Hope Martin
Add five minutes of active learning to your classes every day--another whole month of valuable instruction each year! Start each class with one of these intriguing puzzles and get your students eagerly doing math in those crucial first five minutes. Each puzzle highlights an interesting event or a famous person -- while guessing the year students interpret quantitative clues and connect the abstract rules of number theory to an interesting, fun activity.
Grades 5-9, 192 pp., $25.95
Integrating Math in the Real World: The Math of Food by Hope Martin
How can math help you improve your diet? 20 exciting exercises focus on proper diet, exercise, information on food labels and food shortages around the world?
Grades 5-8, 80 pp., $12.95
Integrating Math in the Real World: The Math of Homes by Hope Martin and Susan Guengerich
20-real life activities that show students they really do use math every day. Activities focus on home ownership, construction and design, skyscrapers, and much more. Students will never ask, "When are we ever going to use this?"
Integrating Math in the Real World: The Math of Sports by Hope Martin and Susan Guengerich
From baseball statistics to the Indy 500, these activities focus on engaging activities using data and information drawn from the world of sports. This valuable resource provides you with activities that integrate problem solving into your mathematics curriculum.
Multicultural Math Fun: Holidays Around the Year by Louise Bock, Susan Guengerich, and Hope Martin
Celebrate math with these 54 multicultural activities that are educational and fun! This book has a wealth of projects for the entire calendar year, all tied to holidays from different cultures. Aligned with the NCTM Standards, you can celebrate Mexican Independence Day, Black History Month, National Native American Day, Thanksgiving and more with activities that develop important math concepts.
Grades 5-9, 160 pp., $25.95
Daily Warm-ups -- Pre-Algebra by Hope Martin
180 quick activities - one for each day of the school year - review, practice, and teach pre-algebra topics.
Grades 6-9, 188 pp., $15.95
Daily Warm-ups -- Algebra by Hope Martin
180 quick activities - one for each day of the school year - review, practice, and teach algebra topics.
Grades 7-10, 190 pp., $15.95
Daily Warm-ups - Algebra II by Hope Martin
180 quick activities - one for each day of the school year - review, practice, and teach Algebra II topics.
10-Minute Critical Thinking Activities in the Math Classroom by Hope Martin
An ideal supplement to any mathematics curriculum, this reproducible book of 56 engaging activities encourages students to use critical thinking skills to evaluate, and then solve, a variety of problems. Topics addressed include number theory, computation skills, geometry, mathematical reasoning, sequencing and patterning, order of operations, algebra, and spatial visualization and transformations.
Grades 5-8, 74 pp., $16.95
10-Minute Critical-Thinking Activities for Algebra by Hope Martin
Ready-to-use, creative activities warm up your class and reinforce key algebraic concepts. Designed to meet the NCTM Standards, these 69 engaging activities help students build problem-solving strategies that they can apply not only in the math classroom, but also to other content areas and in everyday life. Activities address a range of topics including patterns, functions, mathematical modeling, probability and statistics, graphing, and more.
Grades 7-10, 74 pp., $16.95
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