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Teaching Your Kids New Math, 6-8 For Dummies
Kris Jamsa (Author)
9781119986393, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 30 March 2023
416 pages
23.1 x 18.5 x 2.8 cm, 0.544 kg
It’s not too late to learn new math tricks—and help kids learn them, too! Teaching Your Kids New Math, Grades 6-8, For Dummies teaches you the new standard way of teaching kids math. It’s all about thinking through how to solve problems and using strategies, rather than just memorizing the procedures. In this book, parents, guardians, and tutors will learn how to use these methods and standards to effectively teach kids Common Core math for grades 6-8. Teaching Your Kids New Math, Grades 6-8, For Dummies shows you how schools are teaching kids math these days, and gives you tools to support kids through the homework and test prep process. You’ll love this book’s clear explanations and examples organized by grade level. With Teaching Your Kids New Math, Grades 6-8, For Dummies?? you’ll also get access to online tools, including dozens of math worksheets for additional support. This is the perfect Dummies guide for anyone who needs guidance on how to teach kids math using new methods and concepts—they’re different from what we learned in school! Future math teachers will also love this user-friendly guide to middle-grade math.
Introduction 1 Part 1: Securing the Foundation 5 Chapter 1: Parent, Provider, and Now, Math Teacher 7 Chapter 2: Adding to What They Already Know 13 Chapter 3: Subtracting Any Knowledge Gaps 31 Chapter 4: Multiplying Their Multiplication Skills 49 Chapter 5: Divide and Conquer 67 Chapter 6: Mastering Fractions 83 Chapter 7: The Point of Decimals 101 Chapter 8: Prime Time Factors 119 Part 2: Sailing through Sixth-Grade Math 129 Chapter 9: Getting Around Shapes 131 Chapter 10: Working with Numbers Less than Zero 143 Chapter 11: Starting with Simple Statistics 161 Chapter 12: Making Sense of Ratios 185 Chapter 13: Working with Exponents 195 Chapter 14: Getting Started with Algebra 207 Chapter 15: Calculating and Applying Percentages 225 Chapter 16: Making Sense of the Metric System 239 Part 3: Succeeding at Seventh-Grade Math 247 Chapter 17: Revisiting Ratios with Unit Rates 249 Chapter 18: Converting Fractions to Decimals 255 Chapter 19: Properties of Operations 261 Chapter 20: The Geometry of Angles 269 Chapter 21: Statistics Aren’t Perfect 283 Chapter 22: Introducing Probabilities 291 Part 4: Graduating to Eighth-Grade Math 303 Chapter 23: Solving Two-Variable Expressions 305 Chapter 24: Numbers, Like People, Aren’t Always Rational 315 Chapter 25: Raising the Status with Exponents 319 Chapter 26: Calculating a Line’s Slope and Intercept 335 Chapter 27: Circling Back to Geometry 351 Chapter 28: Taking Another Chance on Probability and Statistics 365 Part 5: The Part of Tens 383 Chapter 29: Ten Types of Mathematics 385 Chapter 30: Ten Things to Consider before High School 389 Index 393
Subject Areas: Education [JN]
