Middle Years Math Grades 5-9
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EVERYDAY PROBLEM SOLVING
Middle School

(BB-247) $8.95 U.S./CAN.
Sale Price $7.99 U.S./CAN.
Filled with stimulating games and activities that enable students to see how meaningful and relevant math is in their lives. Skills covered include prime and compostie numbers, prime factorization, probability, patterning, addition of fractions with like and unlike denominators, solving equations, exponenets, and many more.

PROBABILITY DEMYSTIFIED

(BB-243) $28.95 U.S./CAN.
Sale Price $10.99 U.S./CAN.
Probability made easy. Lots of explanation and simple examples. Good for Middle Years or High School Students or even as a great teacher reference when tutoring.

READY, SET, EDIT
Grades 4-8

(BB-215) $16.99 U.S./CAN.
Sale Price $9.99 U.S./CAN.
Designed to help your students improve their writing and writing test scores. Daily mini-lessons that can be accomplished in just a few minutes in the following areas: usage, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, variety, and pragraphs. Choose specific mini-lessons based on your students' needs and create overhead transparencies or blackline masters to practice a variety of editing skills.

ASK THE SCIENCE EXPERT
Grades 6-8

(BB-214) $12.99 U.S./CAN.
Sale Price $8.99 U.S./CAN.
Students become science experts themselves as they read through the advice column format of each problem, then develop their own plan for research that will solve the problem and answer the questions. They then organize their data and respond to the questions probed in each simulation.

ZIP AROUND - BASIC OPERATIONS Set A
(Grades 4-9)


(M99a) Sale Price $10.95 U.S./CAN.
Each card has several questions that correspond to answers on other cards. The whole class is involved with students asking and answering questions in sequence. The questions have four levels of difficulty.

ZIP AROUND - BASIC OPERATIONS Set B
(Grades 4-9)


(M99b) Sale Price $10.95 U.S./CAN.
Another great set of question and answer cards. Each card has several questions that correspond to answers on other cards. The whole class is involved with students asking and answering questions in sequence. The questions have four levels of difficulty.
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MATH ACTIVITIES WITH DOMINOES
Grades 2 - 6

(M-90b) $10.95 CAN./U.S.

Domino Math provids abundant oportunities for problem solving employing dominoes. 60 pages of addition, multiplication and division activities, blackline masters, adheres to NCTM Standards. Use with our plastic or wooden Dominoes or with our Primary Dominoes Kit

SIXTH GRADE REVIEW


(BB-174) $10.95 U.S./CAN.
Sale Price $7.99 U.S./CAN.

Skills reviewed include: reading comprehension; language skills; critical thinking skills; math; maps, charts, and graphs; reference/study skills; writing. Reproducible pages and an answer key.

MENTAL AEROBICS (442 Thinking Workouts)
Grades 5 to 8


(BB-173) $9.95 U.S./CAN.
Sale Price $7.99 U.S./CAN.

The more than 400 high-interest questions require students to think critically and respond quickly. These teacher-directed questions cover all areas of the middle school curriculum. Problems vary in difficulty and many offer opportunity for extended, more detailed answers. An answer key is provided for teacher convenience.

USING THE STANDARDS:
Problem Solving Grade 5


(BB-147) $12.99 U.S.
Sale Price $9.99 U.S./CAN.

Problem solving is the emphasis as students delve into diverse activities from all five NCTM content standards. Fun, flexible, hands-on activities in a variety of question formats make the mathematics accessible to all learning types. Guided activities help students construct a variety of problem-solving strategies, which they then adapt and use in new situations. Timesaving teaching aids, such as skill checks, cumulative tests, and assessment guidelines, make it effortless to monitor your students' progress.

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HANDS-ON LEARNING MATH CARD GAME Staff Pick!
Ratios, Percents and Decimals

(M-76) $9.95
Sale Price $6.95 U.S./CAN.

A lively game that reinforces basic ratio, percent and decimal facts. 52 playing cards, instructions and game variations included.

PERIMETER & AREA
Grades 5-8

(M-95) $10.95 U.S.
SALE PRICE $8.95 U.S./CAN

Through the use of hands-on manipulatives and technology, students are encouraged to discover the formulas and reasoning behind the building blocks of measurement. To promote the application of measurement formulas and to build reasoning skills, tasks are presented in exciting, real-life style. Fun games and challenges are also included to attract individual learners.

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Data Analysis
(For grades 5 - 8)

(M-82) Regular $7.99 U.S.
Sale Price $6.99 U.S./CAN.

Data analysis includes activities that present and review basic data concepts, types of measure and displays. Also presented are the measures of central tendency; mean, median, and mode. Formats include matching activities, multiple-choice problems, grids, error analysis, magic squares and puzzles.

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SOLVE IT 2: MANIPULATIVE MATH PUZZLES
(Grades 6 - 8)

(M-81) Regular $7.99 U.S.
Sale Price $6.99 U.S./CAN.
Contains 24 classroom tested manipulative math puzzles that manipulate number cards to find answers to problems in the areas of place value, rounding, equations, estimation, equivalency, and more. There are games for one, games for two, alogorithm or equation activities and problem-solving situations that will intrigue even your most reluctant mathematician.

PROBABILITY & STATISTICS
(Grades 6 - 8)

(M-84) Regular $7.99 U.S.
Sale Price $6.99 U.S./CAN.
Includes activities that present and review counting techniques, probability notation, and both theoretical and experimental probability. Activities using spinners and game rules are compared to theoretical calculation. Mean, median, mode, graphs, percentiles, range puzzles and more. Great for grades 6-8.

TEST TAKING SKILLS
(Grade 8)

(M-83) Regular $5.99 U.S.
Sale Price $4.95 U.S./CAN.
Help kids gain the confidence and learn the strategies to improve their scores on all kinds of standardized and teacher-made tests. Study tips and specific test strategies help reduce test anxiety and maximize test scores! Covers reading, language arts, math, etc. Answers are included. Staff Pick For Parents!
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FUNTASTIC FACTS
Hands-On Math Grade 7
and Up

(M-62) Regular $9.99 U.S./CAN.
Sale Price $8.99 U.S./CAN.

Kids will roll polyhedral dice and use their brain power to solve puzzles and play games. Comes with counters and multi-sided dice.

FUNTASTIC FACTS
(Grade 6)

(M-96) Regular $9.99 U.S.
Sale Price $8.99 U.S./CAN.

Kids will roll the polyhedra dice and use their brainposer to solve puzzles and play games! They'll add, subtract, multiply and divide numbers.

STANDARDS-BASED MATH Grades 5-6
(Staff Pick!)


(BB-120) $12.99 U.S.
Sale Price $9.99 U.S./CAN.

These challenging and fun activities utilize codes, puzzles, games and artwork to engage students in math. Topics range from number exploration to geometry to data analysis. Each page contains a notation of the NCTM Standard being addressed. Includes algebra, geometry, measurement, data analysis and probability, number and operations plus more!

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MATH DISCOVERIES ABOUT GEOMETRY
(Grades 5 - 6)

(BB-82) Regular $7.99 U.S.
Sale Price $6.99 U.S./CAN.

Contains over 40 great activities to help your students compare and analyze plane figures, measure area and perimieter, polygons, quadrilaterals, length, height and volume, measure angles, symmetry, slides flips and turns.

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RATIO, PROPORTION & PERCENT
(Grades 6 - 8)

(BB-81) Regular $8.99 U.S.
Sale Price $6.99 U.S./CAN.

Grades 6 - 8 Includes activities that review and reinforce the definitions and various uses of ratios, proportions, and percents. Concepts include writing and manipulating equivalent ratios, solving proportion and percent applications, slope, golden ratios, probability odds, pi, trigonometry ratios and more. Includes matching activities, mulitple choice, mazes and puzzles.

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GRAPHING: MATH
(Grades 5 - 8)

(BB-78) Regular $7.99 U.S.
Sale Price $6.99 U.S./CAN.

These activities help students better interpret and understand the data found in a variety of graphic presentations (i.e. linear, quadratic, cubic exponential, absolute value equations, circles, inequalities and more). A complete answer key is provided.

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WHAT ARE MY CHANCES?
(Grades 5 - 8)

(BB-65) Regular $9.95 U.S.
Sale Price $7.99 U.S./CAN.

Motivating and fun activities involve students in a basic understanding of probability. Realistic situations help students develop number sense about chance events and apply this knowledge to making reasonable predictions about uncertain events.

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KAPLAN'S S.A.T. MATH WORKBOOK

(BB-37) Regular $17.00 U.S.
Sale Price $9.99 U.S./CAN.

Kaplan's SAT Math Workbook:Fifth edition focuses your preparation on exactly the key concepts you need to know. This targeted review helps you maximize your study time and builds the skills you need to score higher.

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METHOD MATH Step-by-Step Problem Solving
Grade 6

(BB-36) Regular $10.99 U.S.
Sale Price $7.99 U.S./CAN.

Method Math will help your students become successful and effective problem solvers! Students will learn a step-by-step method of how to approach and solve word problems. Activities include: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Percents, and Multiple-Step Problems.

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MAKING SENSE OF PERCENT
Grades 5-8

(BB-21) Regular $9.99 U.S.
Sale Price $6.99 U.S./CAN.

Provides the teacher with strategies, activities, and games to help students better understand percent. Games include: Percent Rummy, Percent Tournament and more!

FRACTION DICE GAMES
(Grades 3-6)


(BB-02) Regular $5.95 U.S.
Sale Price $4.95 U.S./CAN.

Includes 14 different games for grades 3-6. For fraction practice and review (includes stickers to make fraction dice).

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MATHLETE T-SHIRT

(M-89) $13.95 CAN./U.S. each or 2/$20.00
25 or more $8.95 CAN./U.S. each

Perfect for the dedicated math teacher! These high quality cotton T's make great awards or prizes for school math competitions, math fairs and family math nights. All Box Cars players need a "Mathlete" shirt. White with Navy Blue Print SIZES S, M, L, XL.

DICE EARRINGS

(BB-245a) $10.95 U.S./CAN.
Sale Price $6.95 U.S./CAN.
Hypo-allergenic and come in a variety of colors.

DICE NECKLACES

(BB-245b) $10.95 U.S./CAN.
Sale Price $6.95 U.S./CAN.
A variety of colors and designs.

FLASHING CARD AND DICE PINS

Dice (M-47a) $2.00 CAN./U.S.
Card (M-47b) $2.00 CAN./U.S.

BULK PRICE set of 12 $20.95 CAN./U.S.
Dice (M-47aB)
Card (M-47bB)

2" X 1" plastic pins that can be easily turned on and off with a simple twist. Secured by a magnet thus, no pin holes in your clothing.





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