These elementary math practice activities for children provide excellent teaching resources for classroom and homeschool.
Click here to see sample pages. Open the door to problem-solving success! The NCTM standards-based activities in this 5th grade math practice activity book are designed to help your students master a new approach to attacking math problems while reinforcing essential basic skills. Students apply and adapt appropriate strategies as they progress from guided activities to independent exercises. In today's world, students need to know much more than how to solve a numerical math problem on a piece of paper.
Format: Soft Cover, 128 perforated pages, 8.5 x 11 inches
Publisher: Frank Schaffer Publications
Recommended Grades: 5th
They need to know how to relate math problems to real-life situations. They need to be problem solvers and critical thinkers. It's also vitally important that they effectively communicate their thoughts and solutions orally and in writing. As a result, problems requiring higher-level thinking skills are showing up in classrooms and on standardized tests. The purpose of these constructed-response questions is not only to produce a correct answer but also to show how and why the answer is correct.
Math Check: Step-By-Step Problems & Solutions provides a simple framework that teaches students how to solve problems and write excellent solutions. Quite often, students see a written math problem and become lost in an overload of information. They panic and give up on the problem before they even try to solve it. This 5th grade math practice activity book uses the acronym FOCUS to help organize and break down the problem into manageable pieces. Each letter of the FOCUS acronym stands for an important step in the problem-solving process: F - Find What?, O - Organize, C - Choose a strategy and solve, U - Understandable?, and S - Summarize
The activities in this book are organized according to the content standards set forth by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics: Number and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, and Data Analysis and Probability.
Frank Schaffer Publications designed the activities in this book to cover essential skills found in standardized tests. Every activity is aligned to state and national standards and designed to improve performance. Through cooperative efforts with Align to Achieve, an independent, non-profit organization, the instructional contents of this book have been correlated to meet or exceed standards for each state as well as national standards. Click here to see a complete list of items available from Frank Schaffer Publications. |
