Challenging Units for Gifted Learners: Teaching the Way Gifted Students Think (Math, Grades 6-8): 0 - Softcover

Smith, Kenneth J.; Stonequist, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593634978 ISBN 13: 9781593634971

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

Gifted students have the potential to learn material earlier and faster, to handle more complexity and abstraction, and to solve complex problems better. This potential, however, needs stimulating experiences from home and school or it will not unfold. These books are designed to help teachers provide the stimulating curricula that will nurture this potential in school. The units presented in this series are based on research into how these students actually think differently from their peers and how they use their learning styles and potential not merely to develop intellectual expertise, but to move beyond expertise to the production of new ideas.

The Math book includes units that ask students to develop a financial portfolio that includes high- and low-risk stocks, options and margins, AAA and junk bonds, mutual funds, and money markets; use math, science, engineering, technology, and art to design and build a miniature golf course; develop games based on probability; and run a real-life small business.

Grades 6-8

About this title

About the Author

Kenneth J. Smith, Ph.D., works at Sunset Ridge School District 29 in Northfield, IL, a suburb of Chicago. He currently runs the district-wide enrichment program. In 1995, Ken earned his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Columbia University in New York. He was an American Memories fellow for the Library of Congress, and his articles have appeared in The Middle School Journal and Gifted Child Today.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1593634978
• ISBN 13: 9781593634971
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 210