Books with title Mathematics in Action: Grade 1

Success in math requires children to make connections between the real world and math concepts in order to solve problems. Successful problem solvers will be ready for the challenges of mathematics as they advance to more complex topics. The activities in this workbook are designed to help children see how math skills are relevant in their daily lives. Best of all, they’ll have lots of fun! Here’s a peek at what’s inside: Excellent ExerciseFour friends have been working out together all week. Students use multi-digit multiplication to calculate the number of times each friend did jumping jacks, sit-ups, push-ups, and pull-ups. Cool CollectionsStudents use multi-digit division to find out the number of album pages needed to hold collections of baseball cards, photographs, stamps and stickers, or use percents to determine how many video games in a collection are adventure, arcade, or sports games. Track and FieldAthletes have come from all over the country to participate in track and field events, including shot put, long jump, and the 100-meter hurdles. Students round the scores to help rank the athletes. Copy ShopCoco’s Copy Shop has different prices for copies depending on how many copies you make and whether they are black and white or color. Students determine the price to make copies of a band flyer, poem, or vacation photograph. Graph ItStudents survey friends about books they’ve read in the past month and use their graph skills to plot the answers. Then they determine the range, median, mode, and mean of their results. Give your child’s confidence in math a boost with 5th Grade Math in Action.

Success in math requires children to make connections between the real world and math concepts in order to solve problems. Successful problem solvers will be ready for the challenges of mathematics as they advance to more complex topics. The activities in this workbook are designed to help children see how math skills are relevant in their daily lives. Best of all, they’ll have lots of fun! Here’s a peek at what’s inside: High ScoreStudents calculate the number of points earned and the total scores of different players of a video game, reinforcing skills in place value, adding three or more numbers, multiplication, as well as comparing numbers by ranking high and low scores. Going GreenEstimating the number of discarded plastic bottles or the fraction of trash that can be recycled in different types of bins are a few practical ways students use math to learn how to improve the environment. Kate’s KitchenIn Kate’s Kitchen, students practice grouping skills when they package containers of dried mango snacks, and dividing skills when they determine how many glasses of orange juice can be made from some oranges. Scaling up smoothie recipes gives multiplication practice, while making parfait desserts gives practice with fractions. Buildings of the WorldStudents use their knowledge of solid shapes to determine the shape of buildings such as the Louvre Pyramid in Paris or the Capital Records building in Los Angeles. Graph GrabberDetermining which of four graphs shows the number of visitors to a science museum is just one way students reinforce their skills in interpreting graphs. Give your child’s confidence in math a boost with 3rd Grade Math in Action.

Success in math requires children to make connections between the real world and math concepts in order to solve problems. Successful problem solvers will be ready for the challenges of mathematics as they advance to more complex topics. The activities in this workbook are designed to help children see how math skills are relevant in their daily lives. Best of all, they’ll have lots of fun! Here’s a peek at what’s inside: While Supplies LastA radio station has a certain number of T-shirts, concert tickets, and gift certificates to give away to the first callers. Students practice subtracting five-digit numbers to calculate how many callers didn’t get a prize. Skateboard SortFrom a dozen skateboards with different designs and patterns, students determine the fraction of striped skateboards, skateboards with flames, skateboards with blue wheels, and other groupings. Angled AlphabetStudents practice recognizing right, acute, and obtuse angles found in particular letters of the alphabet. Find the FlagStudents are shown flags of different countries and find intersecting, perpendicular, and parallel lines in their designs. Favorite FlavorsIra’s Ice Cream Shop is thinking about changing its flavors. From a graph of the flavors people bought on a hot afternoon, students determine the most popular flavor, which sold in equal amounts, which fraction of people bought Fudge Ripple, and which flavor should be replaced. Give your child’s confidence in math a boost with 4th Grade Math in Action.

1988 Scott, Foresman Invitation to Mathematics Grade 2 (P) by L. Carey Bolster, Warren Crown, Robert Hamada, Viggo Hansen, Mary Montgomery Lindquist, Charles McNerney, William Nibbelink, Glenn Prigge, Cathy Rahlfs, David Robitaille, James Schultz, Sidney Sharron, Jane Swafford, Irvin Vance, David E. Williams, James Wilson, & Robert Wisner ***ISBN-13: 9780673239020 ***352 Pages