Career Math: Teaching Real-World Math Skills and Concepts, Grades 5-8, Teacher's Edition

By Hope Martin. Any teacher who has heard students ask, "When are we ever going to use this?" will appreciate this collection of math activities based on the work done in food preparation, medicine, meteorology, personal fitness, and the zoo. Teacher pages set up full instructions for 34 activities driven by reproducible student handouts and correlated to NCTM standards. A workbook containing all the handouts allows teachers to conveniently collect a students work. Grades 5–8. Bibliography. Suggested resources. Answer keys with full solutions. Illustrated. 8½" x 11". Good Year Books. 154 pages. ©2008. GDY431.