These investigations are designed to foster positive feelings about mathematics by providing a wide selection of motivating problem-solving investigations. A major goal of this publication is to introduce students to the wonderful world of recreational mathematics. This long-standing tradition is absent from many modern classrooms where mathematics is viewed as necessary and utilitarian, but certainly not recreational. In addition, many of the activities also embody other standards such as patterns and functions, number and number relationships, computation and estimation, probability, algebra, and geometry. As they do these investigations, students experience and learn mathematics in the true spirit of the NCTM Standards.
Topics covered are whole number operations and math patterns.
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