Full Description
This second edition of the popular math teaching resource book Math Stories for Problem Solving Success offers updated true-to-life situations designed to motivate teenagers to use math skills for solving everyday problems. The book features intriguing short stories followed by sets of problems related to the stories that are correlated to the standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Each of the easy-to-read stories is followed by three increasingly difficult groups of problem sets. This makes it simple for teachers to select the appropriate problem set for students of different abilities and at different grade levels. To further enhance student involvement, the stories feature recurring characters and can be used either sequentially or out of order. The problems in the book cover many basic math topics, including decimals, fractions, and percents; measurement; geometry; data, statistics, and probability; algebra; and problem solving.
In addition to having all the answers, an Answer Key at the end of the book offers explanations and background information about the problems that can be helpful to both teachers and students.
Math Stories for Problem Solving Success will help you show students that math is something they are already using every day.
Contents
About This Resource ix
Teaching Problem Solving Strategies x
A Sample Problem xi
Notes for the Teacher xii
Introductory Story: Time to Go 1
1. Which Way for Jake? 3
2. The Caper 7
3. A Sigh of Relief 11
4. Future Forecast 16
5. Harper's Surprise 22
6. Our Daily Bread 26
7. Sweet Spending 34
8. The County Fair 38
9. Square Cents 45
10. Halloween 58
11. Amazing Measurements 52
12. The Metric Airplane 57
13. Take Me to Your Liter 63
14. Give a Gram 68
15. Measurement Madness 71
16. The Invitation 74
17. On to D.C. 79
18. The Job Crisis 83
19. Tickets 87
20. Baseball—Go Figure 91
21. It's Simply Interest 95
22. An Interesting Loan 99
23. Homecoming 103
24. Train Logic 108
25. Pendulum Project 110
26. Take a Chance 114
27. 831 Monroe Street 119
28. The Pattern Game 123
29. Unlucky Friday 127
30. Lucky Seven 131
31. Busing for Bucks 135
32. Far Out Funds 139
33. Maggie's Secret 144
34. The Frantic Drive 149
35. Tessa's Grounding 154
36. Geometry in the Park 160
37. String Triangles 165
38. Stop on By with Algebra 172
39. Geometry Project 177
40. A Patch for Experiments 184
41. What Is the Average? 192
42. The Challenge 197
43. It's All in the Planning 201
44. The Pro Game 207
45. Table for Eight? 212
46. Jake's Surprise 216
47. Model Dog Houses 221
48. A Day at Clear Lake 226
49. Survey 231
50. Summer Plans 235
51. The Dinosaurs Rock 240
52. Loop or Line? 247
53. Oregon or Bust! 251
Answer Key with Explanations 259
Selected Bibliography 291
