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Improve student understanding and retention with engaging hands-on activities. Each book provides a variety of independent activities to introduce, develop, and reinforce the main concepts. Easy to prepare and use, and most of the materials you need are in your classroom or readily available.

Most of our books are also available as downloadable E-books. Say good-bye to messy copies; copy, paste, and edit activities for use on interactive whiteboards and projectors; and enjoy zero shipping cost!

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Looking at Geometry
Looking at Geometry (6-9) + CD   | Preview

Item#: 1321

$21.95
Grades 6-9; 28 activities – 184 pages; Hands-on activities provide students with experiences to interpret properties of geometry. Geoboards, paper, and models are used to develop a tangible understanding of geometric formulas. Wooden cubes and foam blocks illustrate the concepts of dimensions.
Looking at Lines
Looking at Lines (6-9) + CD   | Preview

Item#: 1320

$24.95
Grades 6-9; 32 activities - 232 pages; Introduce algebraic concepts in their natural setting with activities drawn from real-world phenomena. Covers... More
Machine Shop
Machine Shop (5-9)   | Preview

Item#: 1311

$24.95
Grades 5-9; 23 activities—184 pages; Students explore concepts of conservation of energy, forces, and power as they weigh each other using a seesaw, have tug-o-wars with pulleys, determine how bicycle gears work, and construct simple catapults. Hands-on activities show how machines transfer energy.
Magnificent Microworld Adventures: Microscopic Topics
Magnificent Microworld Adventures: Microscopic Topics (6-9) + DVD   | Preview

Item#: 1312

$24.95
Grades 6-9; 26 activities – 158 pages; Take students on a tour of the worlds of protozoa and plant and animal cells! They’ll be surprised as they find bristles on earthworms or a mouth on a sea star. Besides life science content, students learn to use microscopes, keep notes and draw observations.
Marvelous Multiplication and Dazzling Division
Marvelous Multiplication and Dazzling Division (4-5)   | Preview

Item#: 1202

$21.95
Grades 4-5; 20 activities – 128 pages; Move beyond “drill and kill!” Build students’ conceptual understanding and procedural proficiency by developing a strong sense of place value and by problem solving. Alternative teaching strategies help students who do not do well with traditional ways.
Math + Science, A Solution
Math + Science, A Solution (5-9)

Item#: 1302

$18.95
Grades 5-9; 27 activities—127 pages; Marbles, old shoes, rubber balls, bananas, and M&Ms® provide students with innovative experiences that strengthen their math and process skills. In this AIMS classic, engaging activities show the correlation of mathematics and science in a unique, exciting way.
Mathematicians Are People, Too: Volume 1
Mathematicians Are People, Too: Volume 1 (5-9)   | Preview

Item#: 1294

$16.95
Grades 5-9; 15 vignettes—144 pages; Isaac Newton was inspired to study mathematics after a fight with a bully. Blaise Pascal made a great mathematical finding because of a toothache. This collection of stories about great mathematicians will captivate students and motivate learning about mathematics.
Mathematicians Are People, Too: Volume 2
Mathematicians Are People, Too: Volume 2 (5-9)   | Preview

Item#: 1295

$16.95
Grades 5-9; 15 vignettes—144 pages; Great mathematician Maria Agnesi solved problems in her sleep, and Ada Lovelace described computer programming before computers were built. This collection of stories about great mathematicians will captivate students and motivate learning about mathematics.
Mostly Magnets
Mostly Magnets (3-5) + CD   | Preview

Item#: 1210

$24.95
Grades 3-5; 25 activities - 205 pages; Make a compass, build an electromagnet, sort magnetic and nonmagnetic materials, quantify magnetic... More
Movie Math Mania
Movie Math Mania (6-9)   | Preview

Item#: 1322

$21.95
Grades 6-9; 16 activities - 168 pages; Lights!  Camera!  Action! Clips from popular movies help develop an understanding of estimation, signed... More
Multiplication the Algebra Way
Multiplication the Algebra Way (6-8)   | Preview

Item#: 1319

$24.95
Grades 6-8; 32 activities—204 pages; Help students confidently leap from the familiar environment of arithmetic to the world of algebra. Students draw pictures and use algebra tiles in order to model ideas of multiplication. Soon, multiplication makes true sense and is not just a series of steps.
Out of This World
Out of This World (4-8) + CD   | Preview

Item#: 1310

$24.95
Grades 4-8; 26 activities – 206 pages; Explore the sun, planets, and moons! Taking a planetary scavenger hunt or making a model of the moon’s phases from the view of the Earth will have students learning about our solar system and the components within it. Science, math, and reading are integrated.

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