The interactive website that accompanies these books provides many opportunities for performance-based activities, inquiry and discovery. The book provides students with math activities that take advantage of the Internet as a learning and communication tool.
Students are excited about doing math activities when they work together with online peers.
The Student's Message Center provides a vehicle for students to discuss strategies for solving problems with each other and to interact with the author. Together these students become active participants in creating knowledge as they gather data, organize it into meaningful information, display and analyze the information and arrive at meaningful insights. Teachers will find strategies that bring together math concepts, inquiry, technology, collaborative learning and real world meanings in the classroom while addressing learner outcomes required by curriculum guides. When using the Teacher's Message Center, teachers will build a virtual learning community where they can find support from other teachers around the world as well as the author. Teachers are encouraged to share their best practices to ensure that our website will grow in value over time.