Mathematics Education

Do you know your fractions from your percentages? Your adjacent to your hypotenuse? And who really knows how to do long division, anyway? Puzzled already? Don’t blame you.... But fret not! You won’t be At Sixes and Sevens for long. In this brilliant, well-rounded guide, Countdown's Rachel Riley will take you back to the very basics, allow you to revisit what you learnt at school (and may have promptly forgotten, *ahem*), build your understanding of maths from the get-go and provide you with the essential toolkit to gain confidence in your numerical abilities.

No Calculator? No Problem! Mastering Mental Math , award-winning professor of mathematics and celebrated “mathemagician” Arthur T. Benjamin delivers 10 fun-filled lessons on how to do math in your head with confidence, accuracy, and speed - sometimes faster than a calculator. By the end of Professor Benjamin’s lessons, you’ll be able to add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers faster than ever before. And with your newfound skills, you’ll soon find yourself amazing other people and, perhaps more important, yourself.

Mathematical Mindsets provides practical strategies and activities to help teachers and parents show all children, even those who are convinced that they are bad at math, that they can enjoy and succeed in math. Jo Boaler - Stanford researcher, professor of math education, and expert on math learning - has studied why students don't like math and often fail in math classes. She's followed thousands of students through middle and high schools to study how they learn and to find the most effective ways to unleash the math potential in all students.

A brilliant research mathematician reveals math to be a creative art form on par with painting, poetry, and sculpture, and rejects the standard anxiety-producing teaching methods used in most schools today. Witty and accessible, Paul Lockhart's controversial approach will provoke spirited debate among educators and parents alike, altering the way we think about math forever.

Poker math is a vitally important aspect to no-limit hold'em poker, but it's often overlooked or simply not used because many poker players fear it's too difficult to learn. I'm here to tell you it is not. In fact, fundamental poker math is very easy to learn. After listening to this book, you'll have mastered fundamental no-limit hold'em mathematics. You'll have gained a huge skill advantage over your opponents and will be able to effectively use math at the poker table to make profitable moves. Most importantly, you'll become a much better and profitable poker player!

Sparked by observing teachers struggle to implement rich mathematics tasks to engage students in deep thinking, Peter Liljedahl has translated his 15 years of research into this practical guide on how to move toward a thinking classroom. Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12 helps teachers implement 14 optimal practices for thinking that create an ideal setting for deep mathematics learning to occur.

Did you know that music is all about math? Every good composer knows their scales, along with the repetition, frequencies, and vibration that go into making harmonies and melodies that are pleasing to hear.

This math for kids audiobook is perfect for your child's learning. Do you ever feel that your child is struggling to learn multiplication and wonder why they struggle with math? You try your best to teach your child the best way to learn the times tables. You keep trying over and over again, because you've been using the same method for as long as you can remember. You tend to give up and let the school take care of teaching times table math to your child.

Do you like math? Math is so much more that just numbers and counting! It can be fun! You don’t have to be a magician or a mathematician to perform tricks with numbers. Just listen carefully and follow the directions. Remember, a good numbers trick never gets old.

Math Adventures introduces beginning learners to early math concepts including counting and addition, subtraction, measurements, and odd and even numbers in fun, narrative stories. Each title focuses on a key math concept and the role it plays in everyday settings and interactions. With a focus on math curriculum standards, tightly controlled vocabulary, and repetitive text patterns and sounds, children will learn key math concepts and develop learning skills.

Imagine the best time for your child to learn math is at night! Crazy, right? But it's true. The Meditation Guide to Multiplication Mastery for Kids mixes calming tunes, meditation, and multiplication tables to help kids relax and remember math facts. It's a soothing math lesson they hear while resting.

Learning multiplication tables is oftentimes a disorganized, time consuming task that is never fully accomplished. Thousands of adults acknowledge that they never learned their multiplication tables to a satisfactory degree, mostly due to a lack of consistent access to resources, time, and people. With technology today, children and students shouldn’t have to face these same challenges, and with Audio Multiplication Tables, 0-12, those issues are solved in a single, streamlined audiobook.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Multiplication Tables for Kids and learn about how your child can memorize those calculations.

The world is often full of bamboozling headlines and numbers that don't add up. But don't panic. Within these pages you will transform into a Truth Detective, hunting down the truth about the world around you. You will meet heroic truth detectives, such as Florence Nightingale who started a revolution with a pie chart. You will encounter dastardly villains who have tried to trip us up with dodgy data and misinformation. And you will learn how being smart and savvy with numbers, will help you be smart and savvy about everything else in life too.

The "modern" education system. It hasn't changed much since it started back in 1837. The problem here is, many kids find it hard to learn using this old model. According to The National Academy of Sciences, traditional lecturing increases the failure rates by as much as 55 percent. On top of that, it can result in thousands of dollars in private tutoring and extra resources. In Fun Math for Kids, you'll be given techniques that benefit all four primary types of learners: visual, auditory, reading/writing, and kinesthetic.

The author, Chris McMullen, Ph.D., has over 20 years of experience teaching word problems and math skills to physics students. He prepared this workbook (with full solutions to every problem) to share his strategies for solving algebra word problems.

Audiobook learning is perfect for kids who are always on the move. These math sessions can be listened to in bed, in the car, on the couch, or even at the park. With our unique teaching formula, you'll find techniques that benefit all four primary types of learning: visual, auditory, reading/writing, and kinesthetic.

If your class has 23 or more students, there's more than a 50% chance that two or more students share a birthday. How is this possible? Learn about probability with this simple exercise.

The numbers on the clock are tired of counting time. They want to have an adventure! They meet new friends as they explore the house. Together, they spend the night together having fun and doing math! Will they ever return to their clock and start counting time again?

Join us as we go on a journey into the world of symmetry! Learn about the wonders of line symmetry—or reflection—as you create mirror images and watch how rotational symmetry works in this brief peek into this area of geometry.