Recharge your math instruction with brain-friendly teaching units! Students??? brains are wired to make them natural, curious learners. The mathematical world around them offers a vast classroom, filled with shapes, spaces, quantities, and experiences to discover and explore, all leading to the construction of understanding. Teachers can use this natural curiosity to tap the inborn neural mechanisms that motivate students to learn???to make relevance and meaning of their surroundings. Brain-Compatible Mathematics, Second Edition bridges the findings from the realms of brain research and...

Provides teachers with a framework for designing, implementing, and evaluating interdisciplinary units that integrate content and standards across multiple curriculum areas.

Provides teachers with a framework for designing, implementing, and evaluating interdisciplinary units that integrate content and standards across multiple curriculum areas.

Illustrates how to strengthen learners' problem-solving skills by incorporating problem-based learning (PBL) with Internet resources and presents projects that correlate to national science, mathematics, and technology standards.

Illustrates how to strengthen learners' problem-solving skills by incorporating problem-based learning (PBL) with Internet resources and presents projects that correlate to national science, mathematics, and technology standards.

Formerly a SkyLight publication.

Taking students beyond simple computation to think critically in math is necessary for students to meet today's math standards. Excerpted from Brain-Compatible Mathematics, this booklet includes author Diane Ronis' wheel of problem-solving strategies, plus a seven-step process for approaching and solving complicated problems-giving students a variety of ways to approach, analyze, and think critically about mathematics problems.