Pre-Algebra Out Loud: Learning Mathematics Through Reading and Writing Activities - Softcover

Mower, Pat

 
9780470539491: Pre-Algebra Out Loud: Learning Mathematics Through Reading and Writing Activities
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0470539496 ISBN 13: 9780470539491
Verlag: Jossey-Bass, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

An essential guide for teaching students in grades 5-9 how to write about math

Learning to read and write efficiently regarding mathematics helps students to understand content at a deeper level. In this third book in the popular math 'Out Loud' series, Mower provides a variety of reading and writing strategies and activities suitable for elementary and middle school pre-algebra courses, covering such key skills as integers and exponents, fractions, decimals and percents, graphing, statistics, factoring, evaluating expressions, geometry and the basics of equations.

  • Includes dozens of classroom tested  strategies and techniques
  • Shows how reading and writing can be incorporated in any math class to improve math skills
  • Provides  unique, fun activities that will keep students interested and make learning stick

This important guide offers teachers easy-to-apply lessons that will help students develop a deeper understanding of mathematics.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Pat Mower, Ph.D., an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, prepares??teachers to teach mathematics in elementary, middle, and secondary schools. She is the author of Geometry Out Loud and Algebra Out Loud.

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Pre-Algebra Out Loud, the third book in the popular Out Loud series, is a unique resource for mathematics teachers of students in grades 5 9. In this easy-to-use book, veteran teacher Pat Mower offers classroom-tested strategies, activities, and lessons that will help students more easily comprehend mathematical text and learn the skills they need to effectively communicate mathematical concepts.

Pre-Algebra Out Loud provides a variety of reading and writing strategies, activities, and illustrative examples suitable for elementary and middle school pre-algebra courses, covering key topics, including:

  • The Basic Tools of Algebra
  • Exploring Infinite Sets
  • Topics in Integers
  • Number Theory
  • Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
  • Equations and Inequalities
  • Visualizing Algebra by Graphing Lines
  • Geometry

Designed to hone both mathematics and communication skills, Pre-Algebra Out Loud encourages students to read out loud, write out loud, and think out loud.

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Pre-Algebra Out Loud, the third book in the popular Out Loud series, is a unique resource for mathematics teachers of students in grades 5–9. In this easy-to-use book, veteran teacher Pat Mower offers classroom-tested strategies, activities, and lessons that will help students more easily comprehend mathematical text and learn the skills they need to effectively communicate mathematical concepts.

Pre-Algebra Out Loud provides a variety of reading and writing strategies, activities, and illustrative examples suitable for elementary and middle school pre-algebra courses, covering key topics, including:

  • The Basic Tools of Algebra
  • Exploring Infinite Sets
  • Topics in Integers
  • Number Theory
  • Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
  • Equations and Inequalities
  • Visualizing Algebra by Graphing Lines
  • Geometry

Designed to hone both mathematics and communication skills, Pre-Algebra Out Loud encourages students to read out loud, write out loud, and think out loud.

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Verlag
Jossey-Bass
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0470539496
ISBN 13 
9780470539491
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
204
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