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Key Curriculum Press - The Math Explorer - Games and Activities for Middle School Youth Groups
Pat Murphy, Lori Lambertson
, Pearl Tesler, and The Exploratorium
Grades 7–12
Put the Fun into Learning
Mathematics!
Here is a collection of creative,
hands-on math activities designed to engage students in
standards-based mathematics learning while also meeting your needs as a
youth-group leader.
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You don't have to be a math wiz to lead
these activities. Youth groups and families have tested each activity
to ensure that it includes all the information you'll need to be successful.
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You'll easily have students playing,
thinking, building, and experimenting with mathematics and how it
works.
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You'll find advice on
how to use each activity as well as simple, straightforward
explanations of the mathematics involved. Additional information provides
historical background and science connections to give you the option of
extending the activities.
The Math Explorer
was developed by the folks at the Exploratorium—
San Francisco
's acclaimed hands-on museum of science, art, and human perception. The
activities in this book apply the hands-on teaching methods that work so well
in science to teaching and learning about mathematics. This collection
of games, puzzles, experiments, and projects provides appealing
opportunities for practicing a variety of mathematics skills—from problem
solving and graphing to fractions and ratios—and you can do all of them on a
shoestring budget!
The Math Explorer contains
24 playful activities—tested and proven successful—just like those found at
the Exploratorium. At the heart of each activity is a mathematical
skill or process. Students learn by experimenting—by asking questions
and finding their own answers.
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