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Making Math Meaningful ® - Third Edition
A Middle School Math Curriculum For Teachers and Parents
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Making Math Meaningful - Fun with Puzzles, Games and More!
By Randy Evans, Mick Follari, and Jamie York
View Author Biographies and a full explanation of what this book contains - Click Here!
Are you looking for a new math challenge for your students?
Do you need a resource of ideas that will give your students the opportunity to experience the thrill of mathematics?
And, what about providing a good puzzle or game that will give everyone the understanding of true problem solving?
Randy Evans, Mick Follari and JamieYork have combined their knowledge and skills to create a puzzle and game book that is a perfect reference for middle school and high school teachers.
The book is divided by grade level, with an average of 20 puzzles per grade. It contains not only, puzzles and games, but also math magic tricks and classroom activities. It's an ideal solution for providing something different for tomorrow's math class!
5.5" x 8.5", 100 pages, illustrated, spiral bound
ISBN 978-1-892857-23-1
$12.95 per copy. No quantity discounts available.
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By Jamie York
Download or view the Table of Contents and additional information in .PDF format!
How to Make Math Meaningful? That is one of the greatest challenges for math teachers - particularly
in today's world! This Waldorf inspired math curriculum guide for sixth through eighth grades, provides a
method of teaching that helps develop the whole human being. Jamie York's teaching experiences have brought him to understand that if math is to be meaningful to students, it must have these elements:
| Be Developmentally Appropriate |
Challenge the Students |
| Work with Questions |
Offer Interesting Material |
| Allow for Depth |
Provide the Historical Context |
As a Waldorf math teacher, Jamie realized this type of guide was greatly needed. Making Math Meaningful provides a direct and logical approach to teaching 6th - 8th graders math. Each grade level and topic include numerous examples and explanations.
New in Third Edition: Reworking of 7th grade percents unit, major reworking of 7th grade ratios unit. Two new sections for 8th grade, calculating the Area of Four Types of Triangle, calculating the area of a Cone and Pyramid and much more!
8.5' x 11', 192 pages, illustrated, Perfect Bound Softcover
ISBN 1-892857-08-1.
$22.95 per copy for 1 or 2 copies. $19.00 per copy for 3+ - please call to place a quantity order.
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by Jamie York
Download or View sample pages from the Student's workbook in .PDF format!
What is the intention of this workbook? The sheets
found in this workbook are designed for use as homework
assignments during the sixth grade year. The whole thing emerges
from a carefully thought out, developmentally-based math curriculum,
which is fully described in my book, Making Math Meaningful
- A Middle School Math Curriculum for Teachers and Parents,
a book that makes available the material I have discovered
and developed while teaching middle school math for several
years in a Waldorf school. This material is both exciting
and age-appropriate for developing the minds of this age group.
It is an alternative to the normal "they-need-all-this-stuff-in-order-to-stay-ahead"
approach.
6th Grade - The Year for Strengthening Skills. While
there are new topics to be introduced in sixth grade math,
much of the year is an essential review, or a furthering of
material introduced in earlier years. The challenge is to
weave in the review in such a way that
there is always something new. Therefore each worksheet includes
several review problems. The goal is for the students to enter
seventh grade feeling that division, fractions, and decimals
are all easy, and for them to be excited about learning math.
Who can use this workbook? While most of the author's
teaching experience is within the Waldorf school system, the
curriculum that York present in A Middle School Math Curriculum,
which is what this workbook is based upon, can be effectively
used by any teacher or homeschooling parent wishing to bring
meaningful, age-appropriate material to their students.
Required reading. It is necessary to read Making Math
Meaningful - A Middle School Math Curriculum for Teachers
and Parents in order to fully understand the
material in this workbook.
Topics covered in the 6th Grade workbook.
This Teacher's Edition contains answer keys!
- The review topics from previous years are multiplication,
short and long division, fractions, decimals, measurement,
unit cost, factors, and
estimating.
- The new topics for sixth grade are casting out nines,
exponents (powers), square roots, divisibility, formulas,
the metric system, converting decimals to fractions and
fractions to decimals, angle measure, percents, mean/median/mode,
pie charts, line graphs, area and perimeter, business math
(discount, profit, etc.), ratios, rates (speed, wages),
exchange rate, and complex fractions.
- Mental math. York strongly believes that it is as important
as ever for children to develop the ability to do calculations
in their head. Each worksheet therefore begins with a section
on mental math, focusing on four areas (each one of which
is listed and described in Making Math Meaningful: A Middle
School Math Curriculum):
- Multiplication facts, with selected facts from the
13 through 18 tables, and the 25's table (i.e. 15·5=75);
- Powers with base 2 through 5 (i.e. 34 = 81);
- Fraction to decimal conversions (3/8 = 0.375);
- Math tricks, as described in A Middle School Math
Curriculum, Appendix B.
8.5' x 11', 72 pages, illustrated, Lay-Flat, Spiral-bound
softcover ISBN 1-892857-06-5.
$13.95 per copy plus Shipping & Handling

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by Jamie York
Download or View sample pages from the Student's workbook in .PDF format!
The 6th Grade Student's Workbook. Please see information above. The Student's Workbook is saddle-stitched, lay-flat and includes everything as covered above with the exception of the teacher's answer keys.
8.5' x 11', 59 pages, illustrated, Lay-Flat, Saddle-Stiched
softcover ISBN 1-892857-05-7.
$8.95 per copy up to 9. $7.60 per copy for 10+ - please call to place a quantity order.

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by Jamie York
Download or View sample pages from the Student's workbook in .PDF format!
What is the intention of this workbook? The sheets
found in this workbook are designed for use as homework
assignments during the 7th grade year. The whole thing emerges
from a carefully thought out, developmentally-based math curriculum,
which is fully described in my book, Making Math Meaningful
- A Middle School Math Curriculum for Teachers and Parents,
a book that makes available the material I have discovered
and developed while teaching middle school math for several
years in a Waldorf school. This material is both exciting
and age-appropriate for developing the minds of this age group.
It is an alternative to the normal "they-need-all-this-stuff-in-order-to-stay-ahead"
approach.
Required reading. It is necessary to read Making Math Meaningful - A Middle School Math Curriculum for Teachers and Parents in order to fully understand the material in this workbook. It can be ordered from Whole Spirit Press. Teacher's Guides and Student Workbooks are also available for 6th, 7th and 8th grade.
Who can use this workbook? While most of my teaching experience is within the Waldorf school system, this workbook, as well as my whole math curriculum, can be effectively used by any teacher wishing to bring meaningful, age-appropriate material to their students.
The beginning of abstract thinking. Seventh grade is an important year academically. This is the year when the students start to develop abstract thinking (through algebra, physics, essay writing, etc.), and when study habits are developed. Getting homework done regularly (even in small amounts), and keeping a well-organized notebook, are both very important. It is relatively common for a student to enter seventh grade weak in math, but then to "wake-up" during seventh grade, and, in the end, to enter high school quite strong in math.
This Teacher's Edition contains answer keys!
8.5' x 11', 132 pages, illustrated, Lay-Flat, Spiral-bound
softcover ISBN 1-892857-11-1.
$19.95 per copy plus Shipping & Handling
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by Jamie York
Download or View sample pages from the Student's workbook in .PDF format!
The 7th Grade Student's Workbook. Please see information above. The Student's Workbook is saddle-stitched, lay-flat and includes everything as covered above with the exception of the teacher's answer keys.
8.5' x 11', 116 pages, illustrated, Lay-Flat, Saddle-Stiched
softcover ISBN 1-892857-12-X.
$15.95 per copy up to 9. $13.50 per copy for 10+ - please call to place a quantity order.

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by Jamie York
Download or View sample pages from the Student's workbook in .PDF format!
What is the intention of this workbook? The sheets
found in this workbook are designed for use as homework
assignments during the 8th grade year. The whole thing emerges
from a carefully thought out, developmentally-based math curriculum,
which is fully described in my book, Making Math Meaningful
- A Middle School Math Curriculum for Teachers and Parents,
a book that makes available the material I have discovered
and developed while teaching middle school math for several
years in a Waldorf school. This material is both exciting
and age-appropriate for developing the minds of this age group.
It is an alternative to the normal "they-need-all-this-stuff-in-order-to-stay-ahead"
approach.
Required reading. It is necessary to read Making Math Meaningful - A Middle School Math Curriculum for Teachers and Parents to fully understand the material in this workbook. You can order it from Whole Spirit Press. Teacher's guides and Student Workbooks are also available for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade.
Who can use this workbook? While most of my teaching experience is within the Waldorf school system, any teacher, who wishes to bring meaningful, age-appropriate material to their students, can use this workbook.
The seven units in this eighth grade workbook are:
- Number Bases
- Pythagorean Theorem
- Mensuration
- Percents & Growth
- Proportions and Dimensional Analysis
- Algebra
- End-of-Year Review
This Teacher's Edition contains answer keys!
8.5' x 11', 82 pages, illustrated, Lay-Flat, Spiral-bound
softcover ISBN 1-892857-09-X.
$19.95 per copy plus Shipping & Handling

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by Jamie York
Download or View sample pages from the Student's workbook in .PDF format!
The 8th Grade Student's Workbook. Please see information above. The Student's Workbook is saddle-stitched, lay-flat and includes everything as covered above with the exception of the teacher's answer keys.
8.5' x 11', 72 pages, illustrated, Lay-Flat, Saddle-Stiched
softcover ISBN 1-892857-10-3.
$15.95 per copy up to 9. $13.50 per copy for 10+ - please call to place a quantity order.

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