Math and Nonfiction, Grades 6-8

From The Wing on a Flea to If the World Were a Village, the curiosities of nonfiction children€s books invigorate math lessons through this innovative series. Ideal for using students€ natural quest for knowledge as the basis for mathematical investigations, each lesson features an overview materials required, and a vignette of how the lesson transpired in a real classroom. Books include authentic student work, reproducibles, and a special introduction by Marilyn Burns. Math and Nonfiction, Grades 6-8 offers lessons that inspire students to collect and analyze data, use proportional reasoning, and explore probability, relationships between two-and three-dimensional objects, pi, and more. Each lesson includes an overview of the nonfiction title; a discussion of the lesson€s mathematical focus; and a detailed narrative description of how the activity unfolds.