Burkhart, a math teacher who works with gifted students and provides professional development, offers advanced Common Core math explorations for students in grades five through eight that focus on students doing the thinking. He presents a teacher's guide that includes teaching and motivation strategies, ideas for developing mathematical communication skills, suggestions for managing classroom conversation, and examples of implementing the explorations in different settings, then explorations related to ratios, proportions, and similarity, with description of what students should know and what they will learn, lists of observations and questions to support conversation, samples of multiple thinking strategies, and examples of classroom discussions, as well as an assessment tool and a table of connections to the Common Core State Standards for Mathematical Practice. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Stretch your students' mathematical imaginations to their limits as they solve challenging real-world and mathematical problems that extend concepts from the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics in Advanced Common Core Math Explorations: Ratios, Proportions, and Similarity. Model the solar system, count the fish in a lake, choose the best gear for a bike ride, solve a middle school's overcrowding problem, and explore the mysteries of Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio. Each activity comes with extensive teacher support including student handouts, discussion guides, detailed solutions, and suggestions for extending the investigations. There is also a free supplemental e-book offering strategies for motivation, assessment, parent communication, and suggestions for using the materials in different learning environments.
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