Advanced Common Core Math Explorations - Numbers and Operations (Grades 5-8)

The investigations in this book stretch students' mathematical imaginations to their limits as they investigate the numeration systems of creatures from another planet, create and solve stories and problems with extreme numbers, use place value to design their own new divisibility strategies, and play with a strange kind of number line specially de

List of contents

A Note to Students Introduction Connections to the Common Core State Standards Exploration 1: Triangle Sums Exploration 2: Torran Math Exploration 3: Number Line Magnifiers Exploration 4: Million, Billion, Trillion Exploration 5: Discovering Divisibility Tests Exploration 6: Visualizing Decimal Multiplication Exploration 7: Think Like a Torran! Exploration 8: Extreme Calculations Exploration 9: Multiplication Slide Rules Exploration 10: Factor Blocks and Radicals Appendix: The Building Blocks Model References About the Author Common Core State Standards Alignment

About the author

Jerry Burkhart has been teaching and learning math with gifted students in Minnesota for nearly 20 years. He has degrees in physics, mathematics, and math education. He provides professional development for teachers and is a regular presenter at conferences around topics of meeting the needs of gifted students in mathematics...

Product details

• Authors: Jerry Burkhart
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2014
• EAN: 9781618212634
• ISBN: 978-1-61821-263-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Weight: 360 g
• Series: Advanced Common Core Math Expl; Advanced Common Core Math Expl
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Teaching materials, hand-outs; Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; MATHEMATICS / General, Mathematics, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Mathematics / General, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: Mathematics & numeracy, Educational: Mathematics and numeracy, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General