Full Description
What We Call Middle School Mathematics addresses the content of the middle school mathematics program across the grade levels involved. This book strives to have middle school mathematics teachers understand how the mathematics at their individual grade fits into the overall middle school mathematics curriculum.
While doing this, What We Call Middle School Mathematics assists teachers with ideas in teaching topics. In doing this, the text addresses topics through the physical modeling that is often given little focus in a traditionally based text. For teachers, this book not only shows the mathematical content of the middle school but also using models for its teaching. For students, the book has them portray the modeling activities that will assist them in understanding.
In some cases, especially with fractions, the book also addresses the basic content from prior grades through 'Setting the Stage' sections at the beginning of certain chapters. The goal here is to help teachers understand and deal with the weaknesses in mathematics that many students bring with them to the middle school. The focus on this background is not a review since students, nor anyone else, is able to review what they truly do not understand. While it addresses the mathematics from former grades it does so in a teaching format.
As the reader moves through the chapters on each topic, the overall content for that topic in the middle school can be seen. For 8th-grade students, the text would make an excellent compendium of what has been learned in middle school mathematics while setting the stage for topics for re-investigating prior ideas of the topic when necessary.
Contents
Chapter 1. How to Move on a Grid
Chapter 2. Statistics of the Median
Chapter 3. Multiplication and How It Varies
Chapter 4. Angles and Shapes
Chapter 5. Fractions: The Mathematics of Pieces
Chapter 6. How Many Squares Fit?
Chapter 7. Sharing Unequally and Comparing with Big and Small
Chapter 8. Angles and Relationships
Chapter 9. Decimals
Chapter 10. The Statistics of Sharing Equally
Chapter 11. Putting Pieces Together/Taking Pieces Apart
Chapter 12. Sometimes Things Are Positive and Sometimes Things Are Negative
Chapter 13. Filling Up Boxes
Chapter 14. Comparing Quantities Using
Chapter 15. Subtracting Integers—First Thoughts
Chapter 16. What We Call Middle School Mathematics
Chapter 17. Probably Yes or Maybe No?
Chapter 18. Fractions: The Rest of the Story
Chapter 19. Subtracting Integers—More Thoughts
