Some may find this interesting...
Pupils 'are urged to drop maths' in the UK.
"Pupils are being discouraged from taking A-level maths as schools in England chase higher places in the league tables, scientists have claimed."
If the school performance is measured in students' grades or exam results, then this sounds like an obvious tactic.
Kamis, 26 April 2007
Kamis, 19 April 2007
News... WinterPromise and Math Mammoth
What I am about to explain you might have already found out... but this is the first time I'm announcing it on my blog.
It has been BIG NEWS to me... and lots of work! (And that hasn't ended... I'm still working on this.)
Namely...
Starting in June 2007, WinterPromise will carry a Math Mammoth complete curriculum for grades 1-3!
These new books constitute a complete mathematics curriculum for grades 1, 2, and 3, and will be offered exclusively via WinterPromise during year 2007 (not even sold on my website for that period).
Each grade level will be offered as a printed textbook and a CD, or a CD alone. The entirety of the textbook is on the CD, and can be printed for use within a family for unlimited use.
The CD will also contain answer keys, tests, and an easy access to script-made free worksheets.
The new products
Math Mammoth Grade 1-A and 1-B complete worktexts
These two books focus on addition and subtraction concept and basic facts within 0-10, place value with 2-digit numbers, and some adding and subtracting within 0-100. Also covered are some geometry topics, measuring, clock, and counting coins.
Pricing: CD only $32; textbook and CD $52
Sample pages for 1-A (PDF)
Sample pages for 1-B (PDF)
Math Mammoth Grade 2-A and 2-B complete worktexts
These two books focus on memorizing the basic addition and subtraction facts with single-digit numbers, developing fluency with multidigit addition and subtraction, and place value with 3-digit numbers. Also included is introduction to multiplication concept, measuring and geometry topics, clock reading and money.
Pricing: CD only $32; textbook and CD $52
Math Mammoth Grade 3-A and 3-B complete worktexts
These two books focus on multiplication concept, memorizing multiplication tables, division concept and facts, adding and subtracting 4-6 digit numbers, and using addition and subtraction to solve problems. Also covered are time, money, measuring, and geometry topics, and introduction to fractions.
Pricing: CD only $32; textbook and CD $52
Here is the link to the Math Mammoth books at WinterPromise website.
As a "side effect", I will also have two new workbooks to sell as part of the Blue Series: one about clock, and the other about measuring and early geometry concepts.
So that's all going to be in June... and I'm in a big hurry to get it all ready!
It has been BIG NEWS to me... and lots of work! (And that hasn't ended... I'm still working on this.)
Namely...
Starting in June 2007, WinterPromise will carry a Math Mammoth complete curriculum for grades 1-3!
These new books constitute a complete mathematics curriculum for grades 1, 2, and 3, and will be offered exclusively via WinterPromise during year 2007 (not even sold on my website for that period).Each grade level will be offered as a printed textbook and a CD, or a CD alone. The entirety of the textbook is on the CD, and can be printed for use within a family for unlimited use.
The CD will also contain answer keys, tests, and an easy access to script-made free worksheets.
The new products
Math Mammoth Grade 1-A and 1-B complete worktexts
These two books focus on addition and subtraction concept and basic facts within 0-10, place value with 2-digit numbers, and some adding and subtracting within 0-100. Also covered are some geometry topics, measuring, clock, and counting coins.
Pricing: CD only $32; textbook and CD $52
Sample pages for 1-A (PDF)
Sample pages for 1-B (PDF)
Math Mammoth Grade 2-A and 2-B complete worktexts
These two books focus on memorizing the basic addition and subtraction facts with single-digit numbers, developing fluency with multidigit addition and subtraction, and place value with 3-digit numbers. Also included is introduction to multiplication concept, measuring and geometry topics, clock reading and money.
Pricing: CD only $32; textbook and CD $52
Math Mammoth Grade 3-A and 3-B complete worktexts
These two books focus on multiplication concept, memorizing multiplication tables, division concept and facts, adding and subtracting 4-6 digit numbers, and using addition and subtraction to solve problems. Also covered are time, money, measuring, and geometry topics, and introduction to fractions.
Pricing: CD only $32; textbook and CD $52
Here is the link to the Math Mammoth books at WinterPromise website.
As a "side effect", I will also have two new workbooks to sell as part of the Blue Series: one about clock, and the other about measuring and early geometry concepts.
So that's all going to be in June... and I'm in a big hurry to get it all ready!
Rabu, 18 April 2007
Math in books (not math books!)
I just recieved an email from a publishing company. They want to send me a few books to review and then list on my site.
I've written reviews before, a whole bunch. I started my "reviewer career"... well, in school of course. We wrote book reviews, as I'm sure you did too. I don't think mine were that special. But somehow the role of reviewer has fallen to my lap nowadays.
For example, recently I just finished the review of YourTeacher and MathScore.
The new books that this email was about are
I haven't seen these yet. The reason I put them in this blogpost is because it sounds like these books are examples of math in a somewhat entertaining or interesting context, aimed at high school or middle-school level.
You know, to so many people math remains a "dull" school subject only. And that is so far from truth. It is some of those same people, I'm sure, who confess to the "I'm bad at math and that's okay" attitude as mentioned in the previous blogpost.
I, for sure, intend for my kids to learn the beauty of math, to learn about some of these interesting subjects such as basic cryptography, to learn even of math history.
There exist lots more books like those above, "living math" books - books where mathematical concepts are at the centerpiece of the story.
I encourage you to do something similar. Don't just use the curriculum. Go to the library, and find some of these kind of books (or buy them). It shows kids so much more about math, inspires them about math, and gets rid of these silly attitudes of math being boring or not worth learning.
Because all in all, we can then appreciate mathematics so much more (and its Creator). People are awed by the animal kingdom and appreciate the beauty of this Earth and its plants, its geography, the planets, space etc. But the same applies to math.
I've written reviews before, a whole bunch. I started my "reviewer career"... well, in school of course. We wrote book reviews, as I'm sure you did too. I don't think mine were that special. But somehow the role of reviewer has fallen to my lap nowadays.
For example, recently I just finished the review of YourTeacher and MathScore.
The new books that this email was about are
- Crimes and Mathdemeanors
A collection of short detective stories for young adults who are interested in applying high school level mathematics and physics to solve mysteries. - The Cryptoclub: Using Mathematics to Make and Break Secret Codes.
Join the Cryptokids as they apply basic mathematics to make and break secret codes. This book has many hands-on activities that have been tested in both classrooms and informal settings.
I haven't seen these yet. The reason I put them in this blogpost is because it sounds like these books are examples of math in a somewhat entertaining or interesting context, aimed at high school or middle-school level.
You know, to so many people math remains a "dull" school subject only. And that is so far from truth. It is some of those same people, I'm sure, who confess to the "I'm bad at math and that's okay" attitude as mentioned in the previous blogpost.
I, for sure, intend for my kids to learn the beauty of math, to learn about some of these interesting subjects such as basic cryptography, to learn even of math history.
There exist lots more books like those above, "living math" books - books where mathematical concepts are at the centerpiece of the story.
I encourage you to do something similar. Don't just use the curriculum. Go to the library, and find some of these kind of books (or buy them). It shows kids so much more about math, inspires them about math, and gets rid of these silly attitudes of math being boring or not worth learning.
Because all in all, we can then appreciate mathematics so much more (and its Creator). People are awed by the animal kingdom and appreciate the beauty of this Earth and its plants, its geography, the planets, space etc. But the same applies to math.
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