Math Games offers a dynamic collection of 180 reproducible activity sheets to stimulate and challenge your students in all areas of math - from whole numbers to data analysis - while emphasizing problem solving, critical thinking, and the use of technology for today's curriculum! Each of the book's activities can help you teach students in grades 6 through 12 how to think with numbers, recognize relationships, and make connections between mathematical concepts. You pick the activity appropriate for their needs . . . encourage the use of a calculator . . . or provide further challenges with activities that have multiple answers. Designed to be user friendly, all of the ready-to-use activities are organized into seven convenient sections and printed in a lay-flat format for ease of photocopying as many times as needed.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Judith A. Muschla has taught mathematics in South River, New Jersey, for over twenty-five years. Gary Robert Muschla taught reading and writing for more than twenty-five years in Spotswood, New Jersey. This is the seventh math resource coauthored by Judith Muschla and Gary Muschla. Their earlier books include: The Math Teacher's Book of Lists, Hands-on Math Projects with Real-Life Applications, Math Starters, The Geometry Teacher's Activities Kit, Math Smart, and Algebra Teacher's Activities Kit, all published by Jossey-Bass.
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About the Authors.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Section 1: Whole Numbers.
11. There's a Place for Everything.
Operations and Place Value.
12. Finding Missing Numbers.
Operations with Whole Numbers.
13. Finding the Largest and Smallest.
Operations with Whole Numbers.
14. A Number Chain.
Operations with Whole Numbers.
15. Which Is Greater?
Operations and Rounding with Whole Numbers.
16. The Trio Rounds to . . . .
Rounding Numbers.
17. A Fact About You.
Factors and Perfect Squares.
18. Who Am I?
Factors, Primes, and Composites.
19. Which One Does Not Belong?
Attributes of Numbers.
110. Cross Number Puzzle: Whole Numbers.
Number Puzzle.
111. The Powers of Primes.
Exponents.
112. Cubes and Squares.
Exponents.
113. An Exponential Typo.
Exponents.
114. Euclid and the GCF.
Greatest Common Factor.
115. Finding the LCM Using the GCF.
Least Common Multiple.
116. The Missing Symbols.
Order of Operations.
117. What a Mix-Up!
Order of Operations.
118. A Perfect 10.
Order of Operations.
119. Not-So-Famous Firsts for Presidents.
Order of Operations.
120. What's Next?.
Patterns.
121. Numbers of All Kinds.
Types of Numbers.
122. Val's Baby-Sitting Job.
Application of Numbers.
123. Is the Price Right?
Number Sense.
Section 2: Fractions, Decimals, and Percents.
21. Fractional Trivia.
Equivalent Fractions.
22. Odd Fraction Out.
Equivalent Fractions.
23. Don't Be Redundant.
Fraction and Decimal Equivalences.
24. Out of Order.
Fraction Sequence.
25. Don't Be Square.
Greatest Common Factor and Lowest Common Denominator.
26. Boxes and Numbers.
All Operations with Proper Fractions.
27. Think About This.
All Operations with Fractions.
28. Filling in Fractions.
All Operations with Mixed Fractions.
29. Making a Match.
All Operations with Mixed Numbers.
210. Not Really Complex at All.
Complex Fractions.
211. Making a Point.
Place Value.
212. More or Less.
Comparing Decimals.
213. What Comes First?
Decimal Order.
214. What's the Point?
Decimals and Equivalent Fractions.
215. Decimal Round-up.
Rounding Decimals.
216. A Decimal Cross Number Puzzle.
All Operations with Decimals.
217. The Missing Link.
All Operations with Decimals.
218. Get the Point.
All Operations with Decimals.
219. At the Mall.
All Operations with Money.
220. Do You Have Some Change?
Money and Change.
221. Human Body Statistics.
Scientific Notation.
222. Celestial Facts.
Standard Form
223. Right and Wrong.
All Operations with Fractions and Decimals.
224. Mystery Ratios.
Ratios.
225. How Do You Rate?
Ratios.
226. What's Cooking?
Proportions.
227. Finding the Third.
Fraction, Decimal, and Percent Equivalences.
228. Times Change.
Three Types of Percent Problems.
229. Percents with a Twist.
Three Types of Percent Problems.
230. Short Work of Percents.
Percents of Numbers and Percent of Increase.
Section 3: Geometry.
31. What's the Angle?
Angles and Angle Pairs.
32. Quilting Lines.
Parallel and Perpendicular Lines.
33. Counting Sides.
Polygons.
34. Sometimes It's Right!
Acute, Obtuse, and Right Triangles.
35. Find the Right Word.
Types of Triangles.
36. What's My Line?
Lines of a Triangle.
37. Angles and Measures.
Angles of Parallel Lines and Transversals.
38. A Quadrilateral by Any Other Name.
Types of Quadrilaterals.
39. What's the Measure?
Angles of Quadrilaterals.
310. A Polygon Word Find.
Terms of Polygons and Angles.
311. Always, Sometimes, Never.
Angles and Polygons.
312. Different and Yet the Same.
Angles and Polygons.
313. What's the Relationship?
Angles and Polygons.
314. All, Some, or No.
Congruent and Similar Figures.
315. Finding the Proof.
Congruent Triangles.
316. Finding Right Triangles.
Pythagorean Theorem.
317. Figure This.
Special Right Triangles.
318. Picture This.
Lines of Symmetry.
319. Spinning Around.
Line and Rotational Symmetry.
320. Don't Go in Circles!
Terms of a Circle.
321. A Circle Word Find.
Circle T...