Breaking Away From The Algebra And Geometry Book
How many of your students really love math? If the answer is, 'not everyone,' this textbook is for you. It's a book filled with fun and practical ways to get young students interested in algebra and geometry. You can use the lessons as early as kindergarten and first grade. The book introduces basic concepts and actively involves children in the learning process. The challenging games, puzzles, and word problems use algebra, teaching kids to use variables for two- and three-dimensional...
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How many of your students really love math? If the answer is, _not everyone,_ this textbook is for you. It's a book filled with fun and practical ways to get young students interested in algebra and geometry. The book introduces basic concepts and actively involves children in the learning process. The challenging games, puzzles, and word problems use algebra, teaching kids to use variables for two- and three-dimensional geometry as well as arithmetic.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroductionCh. 1Arithmetic and Algebra1Lesson 1Variables in Early Grades3Lesson 2Writing Equations5Lesson 3Heads and Legs7Lesson 4Four Numbers9Lesson 5Push-Ups11Lesson 6Sharing Apples14Lesson 7Bottle and Cork15Lesson 8Poor Peppermint Patty17Lesson 9Sheep: An Old Puzzle20Lesson 10Cubes, Balls, and Nails22Lesson 11Ages of Mother and Daughter: A Puzzle23Lesson 12Wedding Day25Lesson 13A Most Dreaded Word Problem27Lesson 14Arithmetic Puzzles29Lesson 15Three Numbers Puzzle31Lesson 16A Pot of Soup32Lesson 17Open Box37Lesson 18The Area of the Surface of a Box39Lesson 19Rice Cakes Box41Lesson 20English Numerals45Lesson 21Whole Numbers Written in Base 247Lesson 22Fibonacci Surprise49Lesson 23Fraction Game Using the Continued Fraction Algorithm52Ch. 2Two-Dimensional Geometry57Lesson 24Five-Petal Rosette59Lesson 25Shamrock62Lesson 26Yin and Yang, Again and Again!64Lesson 27Bishop's Cap66Lesson 28Irregular Polygons69Lesson 29Star Maker72Lesson 30What Is a Rhombus?77Lesson 31Quadrilateral Jigsaw Puzzle: Early Geometry82Lesson 32Three Squares85Lesson 33Road Distances and Straight Lines91Lesson 34Distances and Driving Distances in the Southwestern United States94Lesson 35Geometric Surprise99Lesson 36Pentagon Inscribed in a Circle101Ch. 3Three-Dimensional Geometry105Lesson 37Puffy Stars107Lesson 38Skeletal Polyhedra109Lesson 39How to Draw an Icosahedron114Lesson 40Twenty Pyramids Make an Icosahedron116Lesson 41Fox: A Nonconvex Polyhedron119Lesson 42Two-Piece Tetrahedron Puzzle121Lesson 43Four-Piece Tetrahedron Puzzle I124Lesson 44Four-Piece Tetrahedron Puzzle II126Lesson 45A Cube and a Tetrahedron with the Same Volume129Lesson 46Two Cylinders133Lesson 47Cone135Lesson 48Clay Balls137Lesson 49How Well Do You Know a Cube?139Lesson 50Colored Cube143Ch. 4Games, Puzzle, and Combinatorics145Lesson 51The Fox and the Rabbit147Lesson 52Early Arithmetic: Fair Sharing149Lesson 53Fair Sharing II150Lesson 54Basketball Champs152Lesson 55Sum of the First n Whole Numbers154Lesson 56Missing Word155Lesson 57The Game of Pig157Lesson 58Pascal's Triangle: An Introduction159Lesson 59Pascal's Triangle in Early Grades163Lesson 60Pascal's Triangle: n Choose r164Lesson 61Pascal's Triangle: Binomial Coefficients166Lesson 62Square Quilts168About the Authors173
