Making Sense of Maths - Fitting In: Student Book

Summary:

Making Sense of Maths is the only series that develops conceptual understanding.

This series will motivate, engage and develop the conceptual understanding of students at KS3 and KS4.

Students build their own problem solving strategies based on their understanding of the world around them which then support them to tackle functional questions.

The Student's Book, used in conjunction with the workbook and teachers' book, provides engaging activities that support students in developing a true understanding of area, Pythagoras and volume.

Making Sense of Maths has been based on Realistic Maths Education (RME) and extensively trialled in KS3 and KS4 classrooms in the UK by a team from Manchester Metropolitan University.

• Use alongside existing  resources or on its own
  
• Ideal for Year 10s heading for the C/D borderline
  
• Ideal for intervention groups
  
• Supports the move from modular to linear specifications by improving knowledge retention
  
• Provides support for good teaching and learning under the current Ofsted criteria

• Builds confidence and motivation
• Addresses misconceptions
• Each title covers a different set of topics

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1 : Looking at the size of shapes
A green and pleasant land?
The delivery driver
Pricing tiles
Stained glass
Cleaning windows
Playground surfaces
Summary
Chapter 2 : Areas and sides
Triangle types
Making triangles using three squares
Triangles with a right angle
Pythagoras
Summary
Chapter 3: Volume and surface area
Counting
Stacking shelves
Packing cubes
At the cheese counter
The chocolate counter
Finding volumes
In school
Summary
Chapter 4: Circle patterns
A stitch in time
The swimming circuit
The circle: Using formulas
Mirrors
The trampoline
Mirrors and circles
Summary
Chapter 5: Fitting in
Tiles within tiles
Playground
Cubes
Orange juice
Capacity and volume
Wooden blocks
Summary

Readership:
KS3 and GCSE students working from level 3 to level 7