The Carmen Sandiego series are spy adventure programs. Carmen devises an evil plot and you are challenged to stop her. In Math Detective, she shrinks many of the world's famous sites such as the Great Wall of China, Grand Canyon, Mount Everest and Ayers Rock exercises skills in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, estimating, converting fractions and decimals, calculating percentages, geometry. Teaches 34 math strategies that can be used to solve these types of math questions.
Great Hands-on Activities and Reproducibles to Explore a Million and Other Big Numbers Demystify big numbers with these real-life, hands-on classroom activities that will give kids practice in estimating, calculating, measuring, and other important math skills. Reproducible data collection sheets included.
The focus in these unit, for grade6, is area (covering) and perimeter (surrounding). The unit helps students develop an understanding of perimeters and areas of rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, and circles. Students use estimating and counting to find areas and perimeters of irregular figures.
