Jerry Burkhart – författare

Transform your students into mathematical investigators with these rich, challenging activities that build deep understanding of factors and multiples!This comprehensive resource features carefully scaffolded investigations that engage students in authentic mathematical thinking. Each activity includes detailed teacher support with learning goals, discussion guides, complete solutions, and extension suggestions. This updated edition features detailed implementation guidance, including “The Big Picture” overviews, vocabulary support, mathematical process discussions, assessment rubics, connections to broader mathematical concepts, and more! Advanced Math Explorations also provides differentiated materials to meet all of your classroom's diverse learner needs, from "Testing the Waters" entry points to "Diving Deeper" challenges. Through hands-on explorations, students discover patterns, make connections, and develop mathematical reasoning skills that extend far beyond memorization.Whether you're looking to enrich your curriculum, engage struggling learners, or challenge advanced students, these investigations provide the flexibility and depth to transform how students think about mathematics.Perfect for grades 5-8 and adaptable across various learning environments.

Transform your students into mathematical investigators with these rich, challenging activities that build deep understanding of factors and multiples!This comprehensive resource features carefully scaffolded investigations that engage students in authentic mathematical thinking. Each activity includes detailed teacher support with learning goals, discussion guides, complete solutions, and extension suggestions. This updated edition features detailed implementation guidance, including “The Big Picture” overviews, vocabulary support, mathematical process discussions, assessment rubics, connections to broader mathematical concepts, and more! Advanced Math Explorations also provides differentiated materials to meet all of your classroom's diverse learner needs, from "Testing the Waters" entry points to "Diving Deeper" challenges. Through hands-on explorations, students discover patterns, make connections, and develop mathematical reasoning skills that extend far beyond memorization.Whether you're looking to enrich your curriculum, engage struggling learners, or challenge advanced students, these investigations provide the flexibility and depth to transform how students think about mathematics.Perfect for grades 5-8 and adaptable across various learning environments.

Students become mathematical adventurers in these challenging and engaging activities designed to deepen and extend their understanding of concepts from the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics. The investigations in this book stretch students' mathematical imaginations to their limits as they explore mystifying patterns of colored blocks, analyze paths of pool balls, solve mathematical word puzzles, and unravel a baffling mathematical code. Each activity comes with detailed support for classroom implementation including learning goals, discussion guides, detailed solutions, and suggestions for extending the investigation. There is also a free supplemental e-book offering strategies for motivation, assessment, parent communication, and suggestions for using the materials in different learning environments.Grades 5-8

Students become mathematical adventurers in these challenging and engaging activities designed to deepen and extend their understanding of concepts from the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics. The investigations in this book stretch students' mathematical imaginations to their limits as they investigate the numeration systems of creatures from another planet, create and solve stories and problems with extreme numbers, use place value to design their own new divisibility strategies, and play with a strange kind of number line specially designed to multiply numbers without a calculator. Each activity comes with detailed support for classroom implementation including learning goals, discussion guides, detailed solutions, and suggestions for extending the investigation. There is also a free supplemental e-book offering strategies for motivation, assessment, parent communication, and suggestions for using the materials in different learning environments.Grades 5-8

Students become mathematical adventurers in these challenging and engaging activities designed to deepen and extend their understanding of concepts from the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics. The investigations in this book stretch students' mathematical imaginations to their limits as they solve puzzles, create stories, and explore fraction-related concepts that take them from the mathematics of ancient Greece to the outer reaches of infinity. Each activity comes with detailed support for classroom implementation including learning goals, discussion guides, detailed solutions, and suggestions for extending the investigation. There is also a free supplemental e-book offering strategies for motivation, assessment, parent communication, and suggestions for using the materials in different learning environments.Grades 5-8

Students become mathematical adventurers in these challenging and engaging activities designed to deepen and extend their understanding of concepts from the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics. The investigations in this book stretch students' mathematical imaginations to their limits as they create and manipulate geometric figures, draw and analyze complex designs, and develop and apply measurement strategies to solve challenging real-world and mathematical problems. Each activity comes with extensive support for classroom implementation including learning goals, discussion guides, detailed solutions, and suggestions for extending the investigation. There is also a free supplemental e-book offering strategies for motivation, assessment, parent communication, and suggestions for using the materials in different learning environments.Grades 5-8

Stretch your students' mathematical imaginations to their limits as they solve challenging real-world and mathematical problems that extend concepts from the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics in Advanced Common Core Math Explorations: Ratios, Proportions, and Similarity. Model the solar system, count the fish in a lake, choose the best gear for a bike ride, solve a middle school's overcrowding problem, and explore the mysteries of Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio. Each activity comes with extensive teacher support including student handouts, discussion guides, detailed solutions, and suggestions for extending the investigations.Grades 5-8