Math Games E-Book

Judith A. Muschla

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Bildung
• Serie: Educational Trade
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 178

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

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.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

Introduction

How to Use This Resource

Section 1 - WHOLE NUMBERS

1-1 THERE’S A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING

1-2 FINDING MISSING NUMBERS

1-3 FINDING THE LARGEST AND SMALLEST

1-4 A NUMBER CHAIN

1-5 WHICH IS GREATER?

1-6 THE TRIO ROUNDS TO ...

1-7 A FACT ABOUT YOU

1-8 WHO AM I?

1-9 WHICH ONE DOES NOT BELONG?

1-10 CROSS NUMBER PUZZLE: WHOLE NUMBERS

1-11 THE POWERS OF PRIMES

1-12 CUBES AND SQUARES

1-13 AN EXPONENTIAL TYPO

1-14 EUCLID AND THE GCF

1-15 FINDING THE LCM USING THE GCF

1-16 THE MISSING SYMBOLS

1-17 WHAT A MIX-UP!

1-18 A PERFECT 10

1-19 NOT-SO-FAMOUS FIRSTS FOR PRESIDENTS

1-20 WHAT’S NEXT?

1-21 NUMBERS OF ALL KINDS

1-22 VAL’S BABY-SITTING JOB

1-23 IS THE PRICE RIGHT?

Section 2 - FRACTIONS, DECIMALS, AND PERCENTS

2-1 FRACTIONAL TRIVIA

2-2 ODD FRACTION OUT

2-3 DON’T BE REDUNDANT

2-4 OUT OF ORDER

2-5 DON’T BE SQUARE

2-6 BOXES AND NUMBERS

2-7 THINK ABOUT THIS

2-8 FILLING IN FRACTIONS

2-9 MAKING A MATCH

2-10 NOT REALLY COMPLEX AT ALL

2-11 MAKING A POINT

2-12 MORE OR LESS

2-13 WHAT COMES FIRST?

2-14 WHAT’S THE POINT?

2-15 DECIMAL ROUND-UP

2-16 A DECIMAL CROSS NUMBER PUZZLE

2-17 THE MISSING LINK

2-18 GET THE POINT

2-19 AT THE MALL

2-20 DO YOU HAVE SOME CHANGE?

2-21 HUMAN BODY STATISTICS

2-22 CELESTIAL FACTS

2-23 RIGHT AND WRONG

2-24 MYSTERY RATIOS

2-25 HOW DO YOU RATE?

2-26 WHAT’S COOKING?

2-27 FINDING THE THIRD

2-28 TIMES CHANGE

2-29 PERCENTS WITH A TWIST

2-30 SHORT WORK OF PERCENTS

Section 3 - GEOMETRY

3-1 WHAT’S THE ANGLE?

3-2 QUILTING LINES

3-3 COUNTING SIDES

3-4 SOMETIMES IT’S RIGHT!

3-5 FIND THE RIGHT WORD

3-6 WHAT’S MY LINE?

3-7 ANGLES AND MEASURES

3-8 A QUADRILATERAL BY ANY OTHER NAME

3-9 WHAT’S THE MEASURE?

3-10 A POLYGON WORD FIND

3-11 ALWAYS, SOMETIMES, NEVER

3-12 DIFFERENT AND YET THE SAME

3-13 WHAT’S THE RELATIONSHIP?

3-14 ALL, SOME, OR NO

3-15 FINDING THE PROOF

3-16 FINDING RIGHT TRIANGLES

3-17 FIGURE THIS

3-18 PICTURE THIS

3-19 SPINNING AROUND

3-20 DON’T GO IN CIRCLES!

3-21 A CIRCLE WORD FIND

3-22 COMPLETE THE CIRCLE

3-23 A CIRCULAR CHAIN

3-24 3-D WORD SCRAMBLE

3-25 FINDING 3-D FIGURES

3-26 A GREAT SWISS MATHEMATICIAN

Section 4 - MEASUREMENT

4-1 GOING TO GREAT LENGTHS

4-2 THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT

4-3 GOING THE DISTANCE

4-4 NOT JUST FOR COOKING

4-5 ODD MEASURE OUT

4-6 GETTING TO THE BASICS

4-7 EQUAL OR NOT EQUAL

4-8 IT’S ABOUT TIME

4-9 NEVER ENOUGH TIME

4-10 TIMELY WORDS

4-11 CODED EQUATIONS

4-12 HOW DO YOU MEASURE UP?

4-13 TAKE YOUR MEASURE

4-14 MATCHING TEMPERATURES

4-15 A MATTER OF DEGREE

4-16 A SLICE OF THE CIRCLE

4-17 FINDING THE WAY AROUND

4-18 GOING AROUND IN “SQUARES”

4-19 SKETCHING IT OUT

4-20 DIFFERENT FIGURES, SAME AREAS

4-21 DRAWING GEOMETRIC FIGURES

4-22 ALL RELATED

4-23 GOING FULL CIRCLE

4-24 KNOW WHAT FORMULA TO USE

4-25 FORMULAS TO THE MAX

4-26 A STEP BEYOND

4-27 SAME AND DIFFERENT

4-28 WHAT’S THE VALUE?

4-29 DOUBLE TROUBLE

4-30 MEASURING UP

Section 5 - ALGEBRA

5-1 FINDING SOLUTIONS

5-2 ACCORDING TO THE FACTS

5-3 A SWEET TIME LINE

5-4 A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING

5-5 FINDING EQUAL EXPRESSIONS

5-6 COUNTING DOWN

5-7 FINDING THE LARGEST AND SMALLEST

5-8 INTEGER FACTS

5-9 PARENTHESES, PLEASE

5-10 NUMBERS IN BOXES

5-11 PUTTING THE FUN IN FUNCTIONS

5-12 FINDING THE FOURTH

5-13 ABSOLUTELY SURE!

5-14 THE LUCKY 13

5-15 AN EQUATION CHAIN

5-16 MATCHING EQUATIONS

5-17 NOT QUITE RIGHT

5-18 CORRECT SOLUTIONS

5-19 GET TO THE POINT!

5-20 COMMON KNOWLEDGE

5-21 A SHINING STAR

5-22 DOUBLETALK

5-23 A RADICAL CHANGE

5-24 RADICAL MATCHES

5-25 ALL IN THE RANGE

5-26 AND THE ANSWER IS ...

5-27 VARYING VALUES

5-28 COMMON TO BOTH

5-29 SOMETHING’S WRONG

5-30 ABSOLUTELY CORRECT

5-31 FIND THE FUNCTIONS

5-32 RELATIVITY

5-33 JUST PASSING THROUGH

5-34 DEFINING EXPRESSIONS

5-35 HOW WELL DO YOU FUNCTION?

Section 6 - DATA ANALYSIS

6-1 PASSING THE TEST

6-2 INSERTING THE MISSING DATA

6-3 CHARTING THE TEMPERATURES

6-4 A PIECE OF THE PIE

6-5 MARK THAT DATE

6-6 ALL ABOUT DATA

6-7 A MATRIX CHAIN

6-8 THE MISSING ELEMENTS

6-9 THE ODDS ARE . . .

Section 7 - POTPOURRI

7-1 DEUCES ARE WILD

7-2 FINDING MISSING NUMBERS

7-3 MAKE A QUIZ

7-4 READING THE SIGNS

7-5 WHEELING AROUND

7-6 MATH TIC-TAC-TOE

7-7 IT’S A DATE

7-8 LEFT TO RIGHT OR RIGHT TO LEFT

7-9 WHAT’S THE PROBLEM?

7-10 AND THE QUESTION IS ...

7-11 YOU’RE THE TEACHER

7-12 FINDING MISSING INFORMATION

7-13 CREATE A PATTERN

7-14 SIGNS

7-15 NUMBERS AND VALUES

7-16 A MIXED-UP MAGIC SQUARE

7-17 MATH WORD CHAINS

7-18 FINDING THE 10s

7-19 CODE CRACKING

7-20 TURNING IT AROUND

7-21 WHAT’S THE CONNECTION?

7-22 TRACING NETWORKS

7-23 VERY “PLANE”

7-24 THE “BASES” OF THIS ACTIVITY

7-25 SINES, COSINES, AND TANGENTS

7-26 CONES, CONES, CONES

7-27 NOT JUST FOR TECHIES

Answer Key

Copyright © 2004 by Judith A. Muschla and Gary Robert Muschla. All rights reserved.

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About the Authors

Judith A. Muschla received her B.A. in mathematics from Douglass College at Rutgers University and is certified to teach K-12. She has taught mathematics in South River, New Jersey, for more than twenty-five years. She has taught math at various levels at South River High School, ranging from basic skills through calculus. She has also taught at South River Middle School, where, in her capacity as a team leader, she helped revise the mathematics curriculum to reflect the Standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, coordinated interdisciplinary units, and conducted mathematics workshops for teachers and parents. She was a recipient of the 1990-91 Governor’s Teacher Recognition Program Award in New Jersey, and she was named the 2002 South River Public School District Teacher of the Year. Along with teaching, she has been a member of the state Standards Review Panel for the Mathematics Core Curriculum Contents Standards in New Jersey.

Math Games is the seventh book Gary and Judith Muschla have co-authored. They have also written The Math Teacher’s Book of Lists (1995); Hands-on Math Projects with Real-Life Applications (1996); Math Starters! 5- to 10-Minute Activities to Make Kids Think, Grades 6-12 (1999); The Geometry Teacher’s Activities Kit (2000); Math Smart! Over 220 Ready-to-Use Activities to Motivate and Challenge Students, Grades 6-12 (2002); and The Algebra Teacher’s Activities Kit (2003), all published by Jossey-Bass.

Gary Robert Muschla received his B.A. and M.A.T. from Trenton State College and taught at Appleby School in Spotswood, New Jersey, for more than twenty-five years. He spent many of his years in the classroom teaching mathematics at the elementary level. He has also taught reading and writing and is a successful author. He is a member of the Authors Guild and the National Writers Association.

He has written several resources for teachers, among them The Writing Teacher’s Book of Lists (1991, second edition 2003); Writing Workshop Survival Kit (1993); English Teacher’s Great Books Activities Kit (1994); Reading Workshop Survival Kit (1997); Ready-to-Use Reading Proficiency Lessons and Activities, 4th Grade Level (2002); Ready-to-Use Reading Proficiency Lessons and Activities, 8th Grade Level (2002); and Ready-to-Use Reading Proficiency Lessons and Activities, 10th Grade Level (2003), all published by Jossey-Bass. He currently writes and serves as a consultant in education.

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Michael Pfister, assistant superintendent, South River (New Jersey) Public Schools; Paul Coleman, principal of South River High School; and our colleagues for their support of our efforts in writing this book.

We also thank Steve D. Thompson, Ph.D., our editor, for his support of this project.

Thanks also to our daughter, Erin, the first reader of the manuscript, for finding our many oversights and omissions in the early drafts.

We appreciate the efforts of Michele Julien, our production editor, in guiding the manuscript through the production process; and we would like to thank Diane Turso for her proofreading.

Finally, we would like to thank our students, who have made teaching a challenging, exciting, and rewarding experience for us.

Introduction

To meet the demands of mathematics instruction today, math teachers must provide their students with materials that reflect the Principles and Standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. While making sure their students master the basics, they must emphasize critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and the use of technology. All are essential to prepare students for their future.