Product: Book
Trim size in cm: 21x29,7
Pages: 102 in color
ISBN: 978-88-590-1441-6
Publication date: 01/11/2017
Suitable for: Lower secondary 1st level (ages 10-11), Lower secondary 2nd level (ages 12-13)
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A practical workbook designed to be a useful tool which accompanies children in their acquisition of mathematical competences related to powers.
Do you want to learn what powers are and why we need them? Follow me! Starting off with concrete situations and problems, we’ll «build» the rules and concepts together. I am not a maths book like any other, but a Workbook Friend who teaches you to discover the rules by using a situation-problem as your starting point.
As I am a workbook, you can write, draw and doodle on me (you’ll need to if you want to properly understand what powers are, you’ll see!).
Visualizing powers
Base, exponent, power
Visualizing expressions with powers
Visualizing expressions with powers and parentheses
Visualizing the powers as a product
Building the properties of powers with equal bases
Building the properties of powers with the same exponent
Building the properties of powers of powers
From problem to expression with powers and vice versa
Statistics and Powers
Answers
With Giulia, Marty, Teo and Luca, mathematics becomes child's play!
Workbook Friend is a series of practical books, edited by Silvana Poli, Carla Bertolli and Daniela Lucangeli, amongst the greatest experts in the psychology of learning, designed as handy tools to accompany lower secondary school students and those in their last year of primary school in their acquisition of basic mathematical competences.
How they are structured
Each book is divided into two parts:
The methodology: from the problem to the rule
The methodology can be summarised as follows:
In brief:
The learning process «from the problem to the rule» enables pupils to «build» logical mathematical concepts themselves. The latter are «traditionally» received in an already formalised way and conveyed mainly through verbal instead of visual and practical communication. In this way, pupils are motivated in their search for the result, which is also the solution to the problem. They are also better prepared to acquire, as class practice has demonstrated, greater command of the resolution mechanism.
The books:
• Geometry problems
Starting each time from initially very simple and gradually more complex concrete situations, this workbook involves boys and girls from lower secondary school in the "construction" of rules and concepts to solve geometry problems. More info »• Graphs, charts and statistics
Do you want to learn how to use graphs, charts and statistical calculations? Starting each time from concrete situations, the volume accompanies you in the construction and understanding of rules and concepts. More info »• Relative Numbers
What are relative numbers and what are they for? Taking its cue each time from problem situations, initially very simple and gradually more complex, this workbook involves lower secondary school students in the "construction" of the concept of relative numbers starting from real data. More info »• Perimeter and Area
What are Perimeter and Area for? Starting off with concrete situations and problems, students will “construct” the formulas used to calculate the perimeter and area of shapes. More info » Some pages from the book:
• Problems
What are problems for? Before solving problems, it is necessary to recognize that there are situations “to be solved”. Only after understanding this, can the child learn to identify problem-situations. More info » Some pages from the book:
• Measurements and equivalents
What are measurements and equivalents for? Starting off with concrete situations and problems, students will learn the rules and concepts of measurement of areas, volumes, capacities and weights. More info » Some pages from the book:
• Multiples and divisors
What are multiples and divisors for? Starting off with concrete situations and problems, the role of multiples, divisors and their calculation will be understood at an intuitive level. More info » Some pages from the book:
• Powers
What are powers for? Using their daily life experiences as a starting point, students will start thinking about the role of powers in math calculation. More info » Some pages from the book:
• Expressions
What are expressions for? Even though it is not often stated in maths books, expressions are used to solve concrete problems that present themselves in day-to-day life. More info » Some pages from the book:
• Fractions
What are fractions for? Based on their experience and knowledge of primary school, children may answer: «to divide a cake », «to use a tape measure», «to colour different parts». We are talking about explanations that are «simple» maybe but at the same time valid and plausible. More info » Some pages from the book: