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The authors, junior high students and best friends David and Asa, along with best-selling author Marya Washington Tyler, took the kind of gooey, slimy, disgusting science facts that students love and turned them into hilarious math problems.
When's the last time you had your students calculate their chances of being eaten by a crocodile?
The percent of seats at Yankee Stadium that do not have gum stuck to them?
The number of skin scales they lost in the last 20 minutes?
The number of flushes it would take to overflow their city's wastewater treatment tank?
Or, how many gigabytes their brain can hold?
These and other intriguing problems await your students in this book designed to teach children to translate statements and questions into mathematical equations. All of the problems are based on known scientific facts.
This is math. This is real. This is alive! Included is a comprehensive answer key, reproducible handouts, and hilarious illustrations. This is math the way it ought to be—tough, fun, and . . . a little weird.
When's the last time you had your students calculate their chances of being eaten by a crocodile?
The percent of seats at Yankee Stadium that do not have gum stuck to them?
The number of skin scales they lost in the last 20 minutes?
The number of flushes it would take to overflow their city's wastewater treatment tank?
Or, how many gigabytes their brain can hold?
These and other intriguing problems await your students in this book designed to teach children to translate statements and questions into mathematical equations. All of the problems are based on known scientific facts.
This is math. This is real. This is alive! Included is a comprehensive answer key, reproducible handouts, and hilarious illustrations. This is math the way it ought to be—tough, fun, and . . . a little weird.
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Marya Washington Tyler has a master's degree in gifted and talented education from the University of Wisconsin and has taught gifted and talented students for 11 years. Tyler is the author of several Prufrock bestsellers, including Real Life Math Mysteries, It's Alive!, and Extreme Math, which she cowrote with her husband Kip. They have four wonderful, spontaneous, gifted children scattered across the country. The Tylers live in Ketchikan, AK, where they kayak, mountain climb, snowshoe, beach comb, and otherwise explore, photographing and videotaping the wonders of the Alexander Archipelago and Tongass rainforest around them. Tyler presently is working on a sequel to Real Life Math Mysteries, which will feature the mathematics faced by real Alaskans: dog mushers, float plane pilots, Native carvers, sea kayak guides, and more.
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date1996
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- ISBN 13 9781882664276
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