Writing Activities to Enhance Middle School Mathematics
Math
the Write Way
offers a venue for introducing writing into the mathematics
classroom. Although the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
advocates writing in the mathematics environment, little more than story
problems are presented in the way of writing in most classes. Research
repeatedly demonstrates the potential benefits of writing in the
mathematics classroom: many types of writing activities improve student
achievement.
Math
the Write Way
provides a variety of
ready-to-use, easily implemented, motivating activities to engage students
in writing in the math classroom.
It
provides content-specific writing activities, vocabulary activities, quick
writes, generic writing activities to be used at any time throughout the
year, and numerous ideas in each chapter that can be reused or reshaped to
fit any middle school mathematics curriculum. Activities involve:
* Whole Numbers & Decimals
* Fractions & Number Theory
* Integers & Rational Numbers
* Expressions & Equations
* Ratio, Proportion & Percent
* Geometry & Measurement
* Statistics & Probability, and Data
