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Essential Math
Conceptual Learning Using a Multimedia FormatReal-world investigations join with comics, video, and animation to engage students and help them make sense of key mathematical concepts. Includes practice, assessment, and reading in the content area. Each unit is narrowly focused, with sequenced activities providing rich conceptual development. |
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Essential Math: Measuring Dimensions Package
Item#: 1408
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Area Formulas for Parallelograms, Triangles, & Trapezoids + CD
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Item#: 1402
Grades 6-8; 15 Day Unit - 77 pages;
Students develop the formulas for the areas of parallelograms, triangles, and trapezoids. By cutting paper and working with geoboards, they understand the meaning of the formulas and apply them in a variety of...[more]
Circumference and Area of Circles + CD
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Item#: 1404
Grades 5-7; 9 day unit - 64 pages;
Students explore the relationships of a circle’s diameter to its circumference and of its radius squared to its area. They encounter the number pi and discover the role it plays in these relationships. They then...[more]
Measurement of Rectangular Solids + CD
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Item#: 1403
Grades 5-7; 11 Day Unit - 64 pages;
Building boxes from a set of rectangles develops understanding of the measurement of rectangular solids. Recognizing that surface area is a measure of covering, students will develop a procedure of finding the sum of the...[more]
Perimeter and Area of Rectangles + CD
Item#: 1401
Grades 4-6; 11 Day Unit — 64 pages;
This unit provides the foundation for future studies in measuring dimensions. Students work with string and straws to develop the concept of perimeter as distance around, then with square tiles to develop the...[more]
The Pythagorean Relationship + CD
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Item#: 1406
Grades 6-8; 7 day unit - 48 pages;
In this unit, students explore the relationship between the areas of the squares on the sides of a triangle. The investigations develop a visual model for the abstract equation a2 + b2 = c2. Students then use the...[more]
Measurement of Prisms, Pyramids, Cylinders, and Cones
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Item#: 1405
Grades 6-8; 11 day unit - 64 pages;
Building each of the solids from a paper template allows students to recognize the component shapes that form the surfaces of each solid. The concept of surface area is developed and students explore ways of finding the...[more]
Effects of Changing Lengths + CD
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Item#: 1407
Grades 6-8; 11 day unit - 64 pages;
After first drawing and building 2- and 3-dimensional shapes to reinforce their understanding of perimeter, area, surface area, and volume, students discover ways to enlarge and reduce these shapes by multiplying the lengths...[more]