Understanding Middle School Math

In Understanding Middle School Math, Arthur Hyde gathers 50 cool problems that lead to deep thinking. Problems such as Chocolate Algebra, where students discover linear relationships among the pocket money needed for differently priced chocolate candies. With the latest research and decades of classroom experience, he braids language, cognition, and math to create problems that connect math to the real world, to students’ lives, and to prior knowledge. Extensively field-tested problems that scaf