- ISBN13: 9780787996307
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
This second edition of the popular math teaching resource book Math Stories for Problem Solving Success offers updated true-to-life situations designed to motivate teenagers to use math skills for solving everyday problems. The book features intriguing short stories followed by sets of problems related to the stories that are correlated to the standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Each of the easy-to-read stories is followed by… More >>
Tags: Activities, Based, education, everyday problems, Grades, life situations, math, math skills, national council of teachers, national council of teachers of mathematics, Problem, ReadyToUse, RealLife, resource book, short stories, Situations, Solving, Stories, success, Teenagers, true to life
#1 by guarddog on February 4, 2010 - 4:34 pm
We were looking for a good math word problem book and came across this one at the local book store. The concept is great: have a story in paragraph form, followed by three sets of word problems related to the story (A is easiest, B is harder, C is hardest). Furthermore, there is a multi-threaded storyline that ties each story together.
Unfortunately, the subject matter of the storyline is a bit too much. For instance, it starts off about a girl whose father just passed away due to a construction accident and she and her mother must move in with her aunt to get by. They meet a boy who was just kicked out of his home and dropped out of school. The second story is about how the boy steals food from a vending machine and then decides to rob a local Burger King! He gets arrested and ends up doing community service to pay for damages.
I suspect the book was written so that certain portions of the population could relate with the storyline, thereby gaining more interest in the math. However, our family simply found it too much primetime-TV like.
It would be great if someone could have incorporated a more innocent storyline.
Rating: 3 / 5
#2 by Mary E. Alexander on February 4, 2010 - 7:18 pm
My 13 year old grandson was having problems with story math problems so I got this book for him. He said it really helped.
Rating: 4 / 5