Math, Culture, and Popular Media: Activities to Engage Middle School Students Through Film, Literature, and the in Ternet

by Michaele F. Chappell, Denisse R. Thompson, Denisse R Thompson

Realizing that middle-grades students bring to classrooms different experiences that shape their meaning about mathematics, both from inside and outside the classroom, it seems that embracing culture...is one important way to address a need in schools--that is, high achievement in mathematics by all students. --Michaele Chappell and Denisse Thompson If your students can text like this cul8r bff, they can solve for this:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325021228
• ISBN13: 9780325021225
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 10.9"
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 8