Math Games: 180 Reproducible Activities to Motivate, Excite, and Challenge Students, Grades 6-12 [Paperback]

Judith A. Muschla (Author), Gary Robert Muschla (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0787970816 | ISBN-13: 978-0787970819 | Publication Date: July 12, 2004 | Edition: 1

Math Games offers a dynamic collection of 180 reproducible activity sheets to stimulate and challenge your students in all areas of math - from whole numbers to data analysis - while emphasizing problem solving, critical thinking, and the use of technology for today's curriculum! Each of the book's activities can help you teach students in grades 6 through 12 how to think with numbers, recognize relationships, and make connections between mathematical concepts. You pick the activity appropriate for their needs . . . encourage the use of a calculator . . . or provide further challenges with activities that have multiple answers. Designed to be user friendly, all of the ready-to-use activities are organized into seven convenient sections and printed in a lay-flat format for ease of photocopying as many times as needed.

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“For classroom teachers interested in successfully incorporating differentiated lessons into the existing curriculum, this book offers ready-to-use and relevant activities. And for students, it provides an enjoyable opportunity to challenge themselves while studying familiar concepts.”--Michelle DiGiovanni, 7^th grade math and science teacher, Round Valley Middle School, Clinton Township, New Jersey

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Math Games

180 Reproducible Activities to Motivate, Excite, and Challenge Students , Grades 6–12

Judith A. Muschla and Gary Robert Muschla

Math Games offers a dynamic collection of 180 reproducible activity sheets to stimulate and challenge your students in all areas of math—from whole numbers to data analysis—while emphasizing problem solving, critical thinking, and the use of technology for today's curriculum!

Each of the book's activities can help you teach students in grades 6 through 12 how to think with numbers, recognize relationships, and make connections between mathematical concepts. You pick the activity appropriate for their needs . . . encourage the use of a calculator . . . or provide further challenges with activities that have multiple answers.

Designed to be user friendly, all of the ready-to-use activities are organized into seven convenient sections and printed in a lay-flat format for ease of photocopying as many times as needed. Following is just a sample of the activities you'll find in each section:

• WHOLE NUMBERS: Includes 23 activities focusing on Operations, Place Value, Factors, Primes and Composites, Attributes of Numbers, Exponents, Types of Numbers, Patterns, and more.
• FRACTIONS, DECIMALS, AND PERCENTS: Offers 30 activities that explore topics such as Greatest Common Factor and Lowest Common Denominator, Mixed and Complex Fractions, Rounding Decimals, Money and Change, Scientific Notation, Ratios, Proportions, Operations with Percents, and more.
• GEOMETRY: Includes 26 games and activities that teach lessons about Parallel and Perpendicular Lines, Angles, Types of Quadrilaterals, Congruent and Similar Figures, Circles, Pythagorean Theorem, Line and Rotational Symmetry, Euler's Formula, and more.
• MEASUREMENT: Presents 30 math activities that highlight Customary and Metric Measures, Computation with Time, Equivalent Measures, Fahrenheit and Celsius Scales, Perimeter and Circumference, Areas of Polygons and Circles, Volume and Surface Area, and more.
• ALGEBRA: Includes 35 activities focusing on all operations with Integers, Functions, Equations, Radicals, Quadratic Functions and Equations, Linear Inequalities, and more.
• DATA ANALYSIS: Covers 9 math activities that offer lessons on Simple Probability, Data Displays, Addition and Subtraction of Matrices, Matrix Multiplication, Probability and Odds, and more.
• POTPOURRI: Contains 27 activities that feature Word Problems, Palindromes, Patterns, Translations and Reflections, Computer and Internet Words, and more.

"For classroom teachers interested in successfully incorporating differentiated lessons into the existing curriculum, this book offers ready-to-use and relevant activities. And for students, it provides an enjoyable opportunity to challenge themselves while studying familiar concepts."
—Michelle DiGiovanni, 7th grade math and science teacher, Round Valley Middle School, Clinton Township, New Jersey

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (July 12, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787970816
• ISBN-13: 978-0787970819
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #165,399 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not Games, April 6, 2009

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This review is from: Math Games: 180 Reproducible Activities to Motivate, Excite, and Challenge Students, Grades 6-12 (Paperback)

I like this book and highly recommend anything by the Muschla's. But this is a book of worksheets, not games. It does contain entertaining and challenging worksheets that are useful in the classroom. I more often will use their Algebra Teacher's Activity Kit or the Geometry Teacher's Activity Kit.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not really games, but still great!, February 5, 2009

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This review is from: Math Games: 180 Reproducible Activities to Motivate, Excite, and Challenge Students, Grades 6-12 (Paperback)

These are not "games" like you might imagine. They are simply interesting math problems. It's a great resource!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good worksheet book for additional practice - middle school level, March 3, 2008

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This review is from: Math Games: 180 Reproducible Activities to Motivate, Excite, and Challenge Students, Grades 6-12 (Paperback)

While the title is misleading, I found this book a good way to get additional practice in my middle school math classes. The worksheets offer some "puzzle" type problems and "real world" word problems. Students like the worksheets and the format of them doesn't make it feel like everything is on top of each other like worksheets often do.

A good supplement to any classroom