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Grade(s): 4-9
Pages: 429
Challenge Math provides enrichment math activities and develops student problem solving skills. Children love the fascinating stories that tie math and science together and show real life applications for math.
Challenge Math contains over 1000 problems at three levels of difficulty to challenge even the brightest students. In addition to questions and answers the book contains 80 pages of detailed step-by-step instructions for solving the problems.
The fun activities in this book enable children to apply difficult concepts in areas such as statistics, probability, algebra, physics, trigonometry, astronomy, and calculus. Loaded with exciting activities designed in an easy-to-understand format using cartoons and drawings, Challenge Math is a perfect tool to challenge your students.
As the parent of a gifted learner you may wish to expose your child to more advanced mathematics without pre-teaching material they'll be exposed to in school in due course. This is the title for you. Expand your child's understanding without simply accelerating them in a standard curriculum.
Many screening tests for gifted program entry attempt to measure children's understanding of mathematics rather than their ability to solve grade level problems. Challenge Math will build your child's understanding and give them the skills needed to solve problems in Gifted and Talented testing.
Reviewed in Home Education Magazine Nov.-Dec. 2000
"...the intent here is not problems for the sake of rote practice, but problems to encourage thought and interest, and to give kids a feel for the many fascinating real-world uses of math. Metric conversions are demonstrated with measurements of elephant tusks, viruses, and the wingspans of ancient dragonflies; statistics explained with examples taken from medical research; ratios and proportions taught with jumping fleas, metal alloys, map scales, and the heights of trees. All the basics are here too: for example, kid-friendly introductions to the Pythagorean theorem, the "how-tos" of dividing fractions and coordinate graphing, the distinctions among sine, cosine, and tangent, the formulas for calculating the volumes of cylinders and spheres.
Challenge Math is a great resource for the worksheet-discouraged and the mathematically curious."
- Becky Rupp, Ph.D.
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