By incorporating relevant math activities into lessons on history, weather, astronomy, geography, and summarizing results, this series builds a deeper understanding of these content areas while reinforcing middle-grade math skills. The challenging math activities are designed to support and enhance the subjects addressed in each book. All activities are reproducible and include answer keys.
American History
Build math skills while exploring the richness of American history. Relate key periods in history to practical math skills that apply to farming, construction, shopping, manufacturing, and business. Reproducible activities cover roman numerals, weights and measures, percentages, fractions, decimals, graphing, and more. Answer keys included.
Astronomy
Students will learn about force, weight, mass, volume, density, distances, angles, Kepler’s Laws, sidereal and solar time, the Astronomical Unit, and more as they study planets, asteroids, comets, meteors, stars, and galaxies. Reproducible lessons include teacher pages and answer keys.
Geography
Practical math activities cover decimals, fractions, area, angles, grid systems, graphs, measurement, money, and more. Geographical focus includes maps, globes, longitude, latitude, physical geography, continents, countries, populations, trade, and currency. Answer keys provided.
Summarizing Results
Reproducible lessons require students to write, read, explain, illustrate, discuss, and summarize mathematical concepts, enhancing understanding as well as transference to real-world applications. As students write about fractions, decimals, plane figures, square roots, and more, they also develop their skills in comparing, reasoning, organizing, and sequencing. Answer keys provided.
Weather
Reinforce understanding of weather and math skills integral to meteorology with this resource that combines the two subjects. Activities examine climate, seasons, storms, weather maps, weather reporting, and more. Students also learn to graph; read charts and tables; convert measurements; calculate area; and find mean, median, mode, and range. Includes Web sites and answer keys. |
