Product Description

Interesting, enjoyable, and challenging activities to help teach higher level mathematics
Here is a collection of math activities that support the NCTM standards and encourage problem-solving, high-level reasoning, and analytical skills—and are stimulating, interesting, and fun for students. The book includes activities covering geometry, measurement, algebra, statistics and probability, trigonometry, calculus, and more. Featuring a complete answer key to each section, this resource will be a valuable addition to a high school instructor's everyday materials.

Judith A. Muschla and Gary Robert Muschla (East Brunswick, NJ), both teachers of mathematics, have coauthored numerous resources for teachers, including The Math Teacher's Book of Lists (0-1325-5910-2) and Hands-On Math Projects with Real-Life Applications (0-1303-2015-3).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #273934 in Books
• Published on: 2004-07-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Review
“For classroom teachers interested in successfully incorporating differentiated lessons into the existing curriculum, this book offers ready-to-use and relevant activities. And for students, it provides an enjoyable opportunity to challenge themselves while studying familiar concepts.”--Michelle DiGiovanni, 7^th grade math and science teacher, Round Valley Middle School, Clinton Township, New Jersey

From the Back Cover
Math Games

180 Reproducible Activities to Motivate, Excite, and Challenge Students , Grades 6–12

Judith A. Muschla and Gary Robert Muschla

Math Games offers a dynamic collection of 180 reproducible activity sheets to stimulate and challenge your students in all areas of math—from whole numbers to data analysis—while emphasizing problem solving, critical thinking, and the use of technology for today's curriculum!

Each of the book's activities can help you teach students in grades 6 through 12 how to think with numbers, recognize relationships, and make connections between mathematical concepts. You pick the activity appropriate for their needs . . . encourage the use of a calculator . . . or provide further challenges with activities that have multiple answers.

Designed to be user friendly, all of the ready-to-use activities are organized into seven convenient sections and printed in a lay-flat format for ease of photocopying as many times as needed. Following is just a sample of the activities you'll find in each section:

• WHOLE NUMBERS: Includes 23 activities focusing on Operations, Place Value, Factors, Primes and Composites, Attributes of Numbers, Exponents, Types of Numbers, Patterns, and more.
• FRACTIONS, DECIMALS, AND PERCENTS: Offers 30 activities that explore topics such as Greatest Common Factor and Lowest Common Denominator, Mixed and Complex Fractions, Rounding Decimals, Money and Change, Scientific Notation, Ratios, Proportions, Operations with Percents, and more.
• GEOMETRY: Includes 26 games and activities that teach lessons about Parallel and Perpendicular Lines, Angles, Types of Quadrilaterals, Congruent and Similar Figures, Circles, Pythagorean Theorem, Line and Rotational Symmetry, Euler's Formula, and more.
• MEASUREMENT: Presents 30 math activities that highlight Customary and Metric Measures, Computation with Time, Equivalent Measures, Fahrenheit and Celsius Scales, Perimeter and Circumference, Areas of Polygons and Circles, Volume and Surface Area, and more.
• ALGEBRA: Includes 35 activities focusing on all operations with Integers, Functions, Equations, Radicals, Quadratic Functions and Equations, Linear Inequalities, and more.
• DATA ANALYSIS: Covers 9 math activities that offer lessons on Simple Probability, Data Displays, Addition and Subtraction of Matrices, Matrix Multiplication, Probability and Odds, and more.
• POTPOURRI: Contains 27 activities that feature Word Problems, Palindromes, Patterns, Translations and Reflections, Computer and Internet Words, and more.

"For classroom teachers interested in successfully incorporating differentiated lessons into the existing curriculum, this book offers ready-to-use and relevant activities. And for students, it provides an enjoyable opportunity to challenge themselves while studying familiar concepts."
—Michelle DiGiovanni, 7th grade math and science teacher, Round Valley Middle School, Clinton Township, New Jersey

About the Author
Judith A. Muschla has taught mathematics in South River, New Jersey, for over twenty-five years. Gary Robert Muschla taught reading and writing for more than twenty-five years in Spotswood, New Jersey. This is the seventh math resource coauthored by Judith Muschla and Gary Muschla. Their earlier books include: The Math Teacher's Book of Lists, Hands-on Math Projects with Real-Life Applications, Math Starters, The Geometry Teacher's Activities Kit, Math Smart, and Algebra Teacher's Activities Kit, all published by Jossey-Bass.

Customer Reviews

Get Students involved
This book contain a wealth of resources to get students involved in the learning process. The games are fun and fast so they fit within the time frame of the classroom learning environment.

Good worksheet book for additional practice - middle school level
While the title is misleading, I found this book a good way to get additional practice in my middle school math classes. The worksheets offer some "puzzle" type problems and "real world" word problems. Students like the worksheets and the format of them doesn't make it feel like everything is on top of each other like worksheets often do.

A good supplement to any classroom