Nicholas J. Rinaldi

Communication and Creativity in the Math Classroom (eBook, PDF)

Non-Traditional Activities and Strategies that Stress Life Skills

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Whether you are a new or an experienced teacher, Communication and Creativity in the Math Classroom provides you with classroom-tested activities and ideas which are motivating, engaging, and meaningful to students. Traditional textbooks commonly feature conventional, un-engaging, and somewhat boring problems and activities. Communication and Creativity in the Math Classroom provides you with activities and ideas which stress life skills such as communicating more effectively, being creative, analyzing a variety of problems, following directions, and working cooperatively with others. These skills are very valuable but are rarely addressed in the traditional math curriculum. The materials and ideas in this book allow you to interject these skills into your daily lessons while covering various mathematical topics. Many of the easily reproducible activities can be used as assessments; consequently, suggested scoring rubrics are included as well as helpful strategies and observations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 96
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216321156
• Artikelnr.: 74626194

Autorenporträt

Nicholas J. Rinaldi has almost a half century of experience as a teacher. Throughout his career he has continuously managed to keep his students actively involved; one way he has accomplish this is through engaging classroom games, which he played often in all his classes.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: Let's Begin at the Beginning
Unusual EquationsThree of a Kind Palindrome PuzzlerFamous StructuresHow
Observant Are You?Miscellaneous Brain TeasersChapter 2: Can We Talk?
You and MeDo I Have to Draw You a Picture?Joy RideOh, Say Can You SeeLady
Liberty and MeTalking BaseballTo Serve a ServingTroublesome Technology Is
Love Transitive? Student PresentationsDo It Up FrontRemember?Engaging
Questions/CommentsChapter 3: Let's Create Creativity
A Picture is Worth a Thousand PointsI Am a Geometric FigureI Am a
NumberOnce Upon a Time Game Time Chapter 3.14: Happy Pi Day
OverviewMaterials and ActivitiesChapter 4: In Search Of.
Geometry Scavenger HuntNumber Scavenger HuntTransformation Treasure Trek
Chapter 5: But Wait! There's Still More
Linguini Lines Word ChainsYour Guess Is As Good As MineEmergency
FolderRandom StudentsTake Me Out to The Ball GameThe Equation of a LineIt's
a Sine of the TimesConclusion
Appendix
Answers to Selected Exercises