Most of the activities are appropriate for adult students with a wide range of abilities. These manipulatives and activities help in introducing new concepts, reinforcing and clarifying concepts, and providing drill and practice in both the pre-GED and GED classroom. This book provides puzzle activities for students using these manipulatives. Activities focus on the mathematical concepts of transformations such as slides, turns, and flips and tessellations such as tiling, symmetry, area, perimeter, congruence, and similarity. Extensions for more challenging activities are included.
Activities also promote cooperative learning.
This book is a wonderful resource that shows teachers how numbered or colored square tiles can be used to reinforce a variety of mathematical ideas via non-routine problem situations. Activities are designed to help students improve their mental and estimation skills, to challenge students via equations or familiar computational algorithms, to introduce geometric ideas, and to develop problem solving strategies using games. The main goal of all the activities is to provide students with experiences designed to improve their mathematical skills while helping them to become better problem solvers. The mathematical content covered spans a wide ability range. It is particularly useful for students in pre-GED and GED level classes.