Math Snacks Problem Solving Fun With Food Manipulation

The methods used in this book help children make sense of mathematical concepts by allowing them to manipulate food items in order to solve problems.

The enjoyment of a snack during a classroom break time is a familiar sight in most schools. The activities in Maths Snacks provide teachers with a controlled way to introduce maths concepts while making maths time inviting, challenging, and fun. The methods used in this book help children make sense of mathematical concepts by allowing them to manipulate food items in order to solve problems. Careful observation of students as they work through the problem-solving process provides the teacher with a clearer picture of their mathematical thinking process.

Snacks can be as simple as a cheese stick or as complicated as ants on a log or chocolate chip cookies. Readers can try out four different snack recipes using this book and a little help from an adult as well as hone their math skills in the real world of their kitchen. Each recipe is paired with a word problem using measuring, addition, subtraction, and more. Written especially for young readers, each problem contains clue words and other achievable language to help readers solve it.

Illustrated riddles introduce strategies for solving a variety of math problems in using visual clues.

Even those who donâ t like math are interested in food. Kitchen Math serves up 38 activities connecting basic math operations to purchasing, preparing, cooking, and serving different dishes. Whatâ s really the best price on yogurt? How long should you cook the eggs? How do you read nutrition labels? Your students will practice fundamental math skills while they solve real-life cooking, shopping, and planning scenarios. Comprehensive teacher materials incldue lesson objectives, teaching notes, pre- and post-tests, and complete answer keys.

This book collects approximately nine hundred problems that have appeared on the preliminary exams in Berkeley over the last twenty years. It is an invaluable source of problems and solutions. Readers who work through this book will develop problem solving skills in such areas as real analysis, multivariable calculus, differential equations, metric spaces, complex analysis, algebra, and linear algebra.

In the theme of recess, this book holds a deep and imaginative collection of fun mathematical ideas, puzzles, and problems. Written for anyone interested in or actively engaged in schools-parents, teachers, administrators, school board members-this book shows math as a playful, fun, and wonderfully human activity that everyone can enjoy.