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Adventures in Mathopolis Books
Price Each: $5.99
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Painless Technology Integration
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Game Wize Books
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Adventures in Mathopolis
A Series of Mathematical Adventures for Grades 3 through 5
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series
www.barronseduc.com

"Estimating and Measuring"
Estimating and measuring become an exercise in fun when you open this humorous, cartoon-illustrated book. The story's cast of characters includes Lostis Marbles, the mayor of Mathopolis, who loves numbers but usually gets them all mixed up. . . his assistant Trusty Dusty, who helps the mayor keep track of his math mix-ups. . . Mongrel Smith, the town's stray dog. . . and two math superheroes, who use different methods to solve problems. The Superheroes are Elexus Estimator, who is quick at estimating volume, height, weight, and the like. . . and Maverick Measurer, who values accuracy above all else when making math calculations. A mysterious character shows up in town, and the problems he brings with him can be solved by applying math principles. The math Superheroes show young readers how. Students will enjoy the funny episodes as they encounter one math word problem after another. Meanwhile, they effortlessly learn to think, calculate, and come up with the right answers.

"The Great Polygon Caper"
Mayor Lostis Marbles is back again and looking for more help in solving his problems. But now the superhero and problem solver is the fifteen-year-old, skateboard-riding Kent Clark, also know as Edge Master. The villains are the Shiftless gang, led by Shiftless Sheree, a mysterious woman with long, red fingernails, and her brother Ambrose Addemup. In a series of funny, fictional episodes, Edge Master helps the hapless mayor solve problems involving angles, polygons, triangles, quadrilaterals, squares, prisms, and pyramids. He also demonstrates how to calculate the volume of solid objects. Kids will be entertained as they familiarize themselves with the fundamentals of geometry.

Painless Technology Integration
Publisher: Visions, Inc. - Technology in Education
www.toolsforteachers.com

Microsoft Excel is the perfect partner for any mathematics curriculum. Computer-phobic teachers will be thrilled with these prepared templates. By following the click-by-click instructions and detailed questioning guide, they can painlessly provide students with a memorable, engaging learning experience on twenty different mathematics topics. Excel generated prompts of “Correct” or “Try Again” make evaluation straightforward and immediate – no complicated rubrics to complete or papers to grade. Applicable to several versions of Microsoft Excel, lessons can be utilized to stimulate group discussions, put on-line as a supplemental tutorial, completed as a group visiting the computer lab, or set up as stations in a classroom. An excellent supplemental guide for classroom teachers and home school programs, this book will also be a valuable resource for computer literacy teachers looking for lessons that compliment the math curriculum.

"Partnering Secondary Math with Microsoft Excel" (Grades 6 -11)

"Partnering Secondary Math with Microsoft Excel" contains 20 ready-to-use lessons on the following topics:

Algebra
* Ratios and propotions
* Probability
* Scientific Notation
* Linear equations, y-intercepts, slope, and parallel and perpendicular lines
* Quadratic equations
* Systems of equations

Geometry
* Circle sectors and equations of circles
* The Pythagorean Theorem
* Distance and midpoint formulas
* Area of rectangles, parallelograms, and triangles
* Similar polygons
* Dilations and transformations
* Sine, cosine, and tangent ratios

"Partnering Pre-Algebra with Microsoft Excel" (Grades 6 - 9)

"Partnering Pre Algebra with Microsoft Excel" contains 16 ready-to-use lessons on the following topics:

* Rounding
* Greatest common factors and least common multiples
* Fractions
* Percents
* Signed integers (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division)
* Measures of central tendancy (mean, median, mode, and range)

* Patterns
* Introduction to variables
* Inequalities
* Absolute value
* Exponents
* Square roots
* Graphing on a coordinate grid
* Domain and range

Game Wize
Publisher: Visions, Inc. - Technology in Education
www.toolsforteachers.com

Use Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint to spice up lessons. Bring even the most hesitant learner out of their lazy daze. Invigorate your classroom with a learning-based, competitive enthusiasm that will have students begging to play (and learn) some more. Tailor each game to meet the needs of your unique classroom environment. Play as a whole class activity, or set up stations in the classroom for partner or small group competitions. Modify game components to make it relevant to current topics of study, and create a memorable learning experience for yourself and your students.

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