Created by teachers for teachers: "MathScape: Seeing and Thinking Mathematically" is a standards-based program that encourages students to learn mathematics by doing mathematics, by using and connecting mathematical ideas, and by actively increasing their understanding. MathScape is one of four middle school programs to receive a satisfactory rating from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
CONTENTS
What Does the Data Say? Phase One: Measures of Central Tendency Phase Two: Representing and Analyzing Data Phase Three: Progress over Time Phase Four: Probability and Sampling
The Language of Numbers Phase One: Mystery Device Phase Two: Chinese Abacus Phase Three: Number Power
From Whole to Parts Phase One: The Whole of It Phase Two: Between the Whole Numbers Phase Three: Adding Parts and Taking Them Away Phase Four: Fractions in Groups
Designing Spaces Phase One: Visualizing and Representing Phase Two: Functions and Properties of Shapes Phase Three: Visualizing and Representing
Beside the Point Phase One: Decimals Phase Two: Computing with Decimals Phase Three: Percents Phase Four: The Integers
Gulliver's Worlds Phase One: Brobdingnag Phase Two: Lilliput Phase Three: Lands of the Large and Lands of the Little
Patterns in Numbers and Shapes Phase One: Describing Patters Using Tables Phase Two: Describing Patterns Using Variables and Expressions Phase Three: Describing Patterns Using Graphs Phase Four: Finding and Extending Patterns