Mathematical Mystery Tour: Higher-Thinking Math Tasks
Description:
This classic motivator of math thinking is now updated with a year 2000 insert, providing more Fibonacci and golden ratio activities related to the stock market, fractals, algebra, and more! The book also includes helpful web sites related to the book’s content! Engage the naturalist intelligence with its fascinating pattern activities and tap several of the other intelligences as well. Let this graphically alive mystery tour integrate math into art, science, philosophy, history, social studies, and language arts. The use of the calculator, geometric construction, metric measurement, problem solving, formulating results, and making inferences is woven throughout the book. Teacher-help pages provide answers and useful insights to the material.