Advanced Common Core Math Explorations: Factors and Multiples

by Jerry Burkhart

Students become mathematical adventurers in these challenging and engaging activities designed to deepen and extend their understanding of concepts from the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics. The investigations in this book stretch students' mathematical imaginations to their limits as they explore mystifying patterns of colored blocks, analyze paths of pool balls, solve mathematical word puzzles, and unravel a baffling mathematical code. Each activity comes with detailed support for classroom implementation including learning goals, discussion guides, detailed solutions, and suggestions for extending the investigation. There is also a free supplemental e-book offering strategies for motivation, assessment, parent communication, and suggestions for using the materials in different learning environments.

Grades 5-8

168 pages, Paperback

First published September 30, 2014

Reviews

[Martha · Rating 5 out of 5]

My new favorite author - Jerry Burkhart - has come up with a fantastic book to help the kids joyfully learn about number relationships. Finally. I teach a contained classroom with 26 highly and profoundly gifted 5th graders. Believe me it is tough to find engaging, challenging and fun lessons to help these kids think more critically about math. I always have a few kids who just know their multiplication facts to 12 or 15, but when it comes to thinking about large numbers -- these kids are fumbling. This fantastic book grabs the students (and teacher’s) curiosity so the generalizations they have made thus far are challenged. I really like these lessons, but really like Exploration 4 that gives letters in the alphabet a number value. He doesn’t play around with “who has the most expensive name” kind of question. Nope. He sort of turns it on its ear with questions like “Find a task at school that is work 83,538” No kidding. Prime factorization all over that question let me tell you. He even has different levels for the various skill levels of the kids. Can’t beat it with a stick, that is for sure.