A great new way to get all students in grades 5 and up excited about math! Fantasy sports are a hit worldwide with over 17 million participants in the U.S. alone. Now teachers and parents can take advantage of this phenomenon to give students a reason to look forward to learning math. Choose from baseball, football, basketball and soccer to plan lessons that last for a week or a whole season, and teach one math concept or many. Students create fantasy teams by picking their favorite real-life players, they follow their player’ s statistics, and they calculate their teams’ total points using algebraic or non-algebraic methods specifically designed to complement the math skills they are learning. The instructions are easy to follow and the dynamic hands-on games address all learning styles and abilities. In addition to the basic fantasy games, there are reproducible worksheets representing over 40 math concepts, graphing activities, quizzes, lesson plans, and an answer key, all complementing the national math standards. The student workbooks include all the reproducibles from the Teacher and Parent Guides. Dan Flockhart, MEd (Fortuna, CA) is a teacher at College of the Redwoods in Eureka, California, and was a middle school math teacher when he first incorporated fantasy sports into his math curriculum. He presents his innovative method of teaching math and fantasy sports conventions, and maintains a Web site that includes a support forum for teachers as well as contests for students at www.fantasysportsmath.com.

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A great new way to get all students in grades 5 and up excited about math! Fantasy sports are a hit worldwide with over 17 million participants in the U.S. alone.Now teachers and parents can take advantage of this phenomenon to give students a reason to look forward to learning math. Choose from baseball, football, basketball and soccer to plan lessons that last for a week or a whole season, and teach one math concept or many.Students create fantasy teams by picking their favorite real-life players, they follow their player’ s statistics, and they calculate their teams’ total points using algebraic or non-algebraic methods specifically designed to complement the math skills they are learning. The instructions are easy to follow and the dynamic hands-on games address all learning styles and abilities. In addition to the basic fantasy games, there are reproducible worksheets representing over 40 math concepts, graphing activities, quizzes, lesson plans, and an answer key, all complementing the national math standards. The student workbooks include all the reproducibles from the Teacher and Parent Guides. Dan Flockhart, MEd (Fortuna, CA) is a teacher at College of the Redwoods in Eureka, California, and was a middle school math teacher when he first incorporated fantasy sports into his math curriculum. He presents his innovative method of teaching math and fantasy sportsconventions, and maintains a Web site that includes a support forum for teachers as well as contests for students at www.fantasysportsmath.com.

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Geoff Martz attended Dartmouth College and Columbia University before joining The Princeton Review in 1985 as a teacher and writer. Martz headed the development team that designed the Review’s GMAT course. WE KNOW THE COMPUTER-ADAPTIVE GMATbrThe experts at The Princeton Review have studied the new computer-adaptive test to make sure you get the most up-to-date, thoroughly researched book possible. This book contains the most current information on the computer-adaptive GMAT, plus the techniques you’ll need for success on the test.brbrWE KNOW STUDENTSbrEach year we help more than two million students score high with our courses, bestselling books, and award-winning software.brbrWE GET RESULTSbrStudents who take our six-week GMAT CAT course have an average score increase of 80 points (verified by International Communications Research). The proven techniques that we teach in our course are in this book.brbrAND IF IT’S ON THE GMAT CAT, IT’S IN THIS BOOKbrThe Princeton Review knows that acing the computer-adaptive GMAT is very different from getting a 4.0. We don’t try to teach you everything there is to know about math and English–only the techniques you’ll need to score high on the computer-adaptive GMAT. There’s a big difference. In Cracking the GMAT CAT, we’ll teach you how to think like the test makers andbrbr*Eliminate answer choices that look right but are planted to fool youbr*Solve GMAT sentence correction problems by spotting key errors in the questionsbr*Ace the writing assessment section by knowing exactly what the graders are looking forbr*Crack the math sections by “plugging in” numbers in place of letters on the algebra problems, and by memorizing a few key formulas for geometry questionsbr*Use process of elimination to solve tricky data sufficiency problemsbrbrStudy the techniques and strategies in this book, and then practice them on the sampl@5ýp£× ¾Û€

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DIVThe definitive account of the Everests of mathematics–the seven unsolved problems that define the state of the art in contemporary math/DivDIVIn 2000, the Clay Foundation announced a historic competition: whoever could solve any of seven extraordinarily difficult mathematical problems, and have the solution acknowledged as correct by the experts, would receive $1 million in prize money. There was some precedent for doing this: In 1900 the mathematician David Hilbert proposed twenty-three problems that set much of the agenda for mathematics in the twentieth century. The Millennium Problems–chosen by a committee of the leading mathematicians in the world–are likely to acquire similar stature, and their solution (or lack of it) is likely to play a strong role in determining the course of mathematics in the twenty-first century. Keith Devlin, renowned expositor of mathematics and one of the authors of the Clay Institute’s official description of the problems, here provides the definitive account for the mathematically interested reader./DivDIVBKeith Devlin/Bis the Dean of the School of Social Science at St. Mary’s College, Moraga, California, and a Senior Researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University. He is the author of 22 books, one interactive CD-ROM, and over 65 technical research papers in mathematics. His voice is heard regularly on National Public Radio, on such programs as Weekend Edition, Talk of the Nation, Science Friday, Sounds Like Science, and To the Best of Our Knowledge. His previous books include Life by the Numbers, the companion to a PBS series that aired in April and May, 1998; Goodbye Descartes: The End of Logic; and The Language of Mathematics: Making the Invisible Visible./Div

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