Mathematics activity Book II provides Teachers and Students with an inquiry-based approach to learning. It promotes skill attainment and acquisition through exploration, discussion, and group work, which can lead to mathematics mastery.
The book includes a variety of activities that address the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM) as well as the most current National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) Standards. These activities help future teachers implement effective mathematic teaching practices that would lead their students toward developing mathematics skills in today’s world.
Future teacher also need to learn what strategic activity or approach works best, along with what manipulatives are out there to accomplish the desired learning and how to properly use them. They need to distinguish when collaborative work activities are a better learning approach than independent learning activities. All of the activities in this book include objectives, strategies, and manipulatives needed as well as instructions on how to use them.
The goal of this book is to have a well verse collection of activities that will facilitate future teachers enrich their classroom with engaging activities that would help prepare their students as higher-level mathematics learners.
There are two activity book in this series. The first one, Mathematics Activity Book I: Learning and Teaching focuses on the understanding of why and how to effectively teach problem solving, the importance of understanding the struggles elementary kids go through when learning the numeration system, the notions of sets and how and when to use Venn diagrams, as well as how to use and teach models and alternate algorithms for basic operations with the sets of whole, integers, rational, and real numbers.
As for the second book, Mathematics Activity Book II: Learning & Teaching focuses more on understanding basic probability and statistics with different graphs and displays for data collection, introduction to Euclidean geometry with basic constructions and transformations, congruency and similarities, and the study of changes in units when finding area, perimeter and volume. It also established a relationship between distance formula, Pythagorean Theorem and circles.
