A Mathematical Mystery Tour: Higher-Thinking Math Tasks (Grades 5-12) - Softcover

Wahl, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593633386 ISBN 13: 9781593633387

Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

This classic motivator of math thinking is now updated with a downloadable student booklet containing additional Fibonacci and golden ratio activities related to the stock market, fractals, algebra, and more! The book also includes helpful Web sites related to the book's content. Let this geographically alive mystery tour integrate math into art, science, philosophy, history, social studies, and language arts. The use of the calculator, geometric construction, metric measurement, problem solving, formulating results, and making inferences is woven throughout the book.

A Mathematical Mystery Tour has been used by thousands of students and has inspired adults to a greater appreciation of the secret number language of nature. It is multidisciplinary, visual, and hands-on, but requires deep math thinking. The activities are reproducible and are accompanied with teacher pages that give answers, notes, and activity extensions.
Your purchase of this book entitles you to download the supplemental Mathematical Mystery Tour Student Newspaper for use in your classroom. Multiple copies of this supplemental student guide may printed for use with your students.

Grades 5-12

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This classic motivator of math thinking is now updated with a year 2000 insert. You will get more Fibonacci and golden ratio activities related to the stock market, fractals, algebra and more! You will also find helpful web sites related to the book's content! Engage the naturalist intelligence with its fascinating pattern activities and tap several of the other intelligences as well. Let this graphically alive mystery tour integrate math into art, science, philosophy, history, social studies, and language arts. The use of the calculator, geometric construction, metric measurement, problem solving, formulating results, and making inferences is woven throughout the book. Teacher help pages provide answers and useful insights to the material. The additional "Mystery Tour Guide" newspaper integrates with each unit, adding questions, activities, puzzles, and tidbits of fascinating scientific and historical information that build a real life mystery that each student is encouraged to plumb. You'll receive a sample Tour Guide newspaper with the purchase of each book. Order additional newspapers in sets of 10.

Students should have their own newspapers, or if funds are limited, 3 or 4 students may share.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1593633386
• ISBN 13: 9781593633387
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 268