Smart Moves: Developing Mathematical Reasoning with Games and Puzzles can be used as part of a school mathematics curriculum or as extra curricular activities for students. The puzzles make excellent classroom openers, end-of-period thought provokers, or for students to work on during school breaks. Using the puzzle solving tips and Mathematical Connections will engage the students in problem solving, help them discover strategies, and encourage mathematical thinking. Smart Moves has over 330 games and puzzles (black and white text ) which focus on Sequential Reasoning.For easy use, the book is printed in a lay-flat 8.5" x 11" format. Contact the author directly to purchase electronic file of color pdf worksheets for classroom use. Author: Michael Serra, Pages: 210, paperback, Publisher: Playing It Smart, ISBN: 978-0983409908

Smart Moves: Developing Mathematical Reasoning with Games and Puzzles

Science & Math

Serra, Michael

Mathematics

Playing It Smart

Ahoy matey! Fear not mathematics. Build ye thinking skills, learn ye coordinates, and a smarter pirate ye will be! Michael Serra combines the challenge of mathematics with the fun adventure of pirates and buried treasure. Play the Buried Treasure game using a rectangle coordinate plane, a polar coordinate system, a spherical surface, and with three-dimensional areas. Use the chapter on cryptography to help solve hidden messages to uncover the pirate loot. Take a journey to sun-drenched tropical islands in search of pirate booty. With a map in your hand, follow clues and solve puzzles, developing your mathematical reasoning skills along the way. Argh, what glorious adventures, the thrill of using math to find pirate treasure!

Pirate Math

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

From the author of Discovering Geometry, the Mathercise Series is a math fitness program and keeps your students in great mathematical shape. The Mathercise Series consists of five books and each book specializes in a particular area in a middle school or high school mathematics course. Mathercise E is designed for students who have taken geometry and are taking advanced algebra and precalculus. You can easily integrate Mathercise E into your existing math program because it requires very little preparation. Each Mathercise page is a set of three problems with a space for a fourth: reason, solve, sketch, and review. Author: Michael Serra, Pages: 62, paperback, Publisher: Playing It Smart, ISBN: 978-1559530637

Mathercise: Book E: Advanced Algebra, Pre-Calculus

Michael Serra

Students love catching mistakes, especially in the classroom. In What's Wrong with This Picture, students are told in advance that at least one of the problems on each page is correct and at least one is incorrect. They must identify which is correct and which problem is incorrect. For each incorrect problem, they must explain why it is incorrect. Watch students search for errors and in the process, learn critical thinking skills. There are 50 student activities, each with three to four geometry problems. The problems are usually visual but there are also word problems and proofs. Author: Michael Serra, Pages: 60, paperback, Publisher: Playing It Smart, ISBN: 978-1559535847

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Smart Moves: Developing Mathematical Reasoning with Games and Puzzles

Pirate Math

Mathercise: Book E: Advanced Algebra, Pre-Calculus

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