Engage students in mathematics using growth mindset techniques

The most challenging parts of teaching mathematics are engaging students and helping them understand the connections between mathematics concepts. In this volume, you'll find a collection of low floor, high ceiling tasks that will help you do just that, by looking at the big ideas at the sixth-grade level through visualization, play, and investigation.

During their work with tens of thousands of teachers, authors Jo Boaler, Jen Munson, and Cathy Williams heard the same message--that they want to incorporate ...
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The most challenging parts of teaching mathematics are engaging students and helping them understand the connections between mathematics concepts. In this volume, you'll find a collection of low floor, high ceiling tasks that will help you do just that, by looking at the big ideas at the fifth-grade level through visualization, play, and investigation.

During their work with tens of thousands of teachers, authors Jo Boaler, Jen Munson, and Cathy Williams heard the same message--that they want to incorporate more brain ...
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The most challenging parts of teaching mathematics are engaging students and helping them understand the connections between mathematics concepts. In this volume, you'll find a collection of low floor, high ceiling tasks that will help you do just that, by looking at the big ideas at the first-grade level through visualization, play, and investigation.

During their work with tens of thousands of teachers, authors Jo Boaler, Jen Munson, and Cathy Williams heard the same message--that they want to incorporate more br...
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Blast off with the Angry Birds as they fly through space on an intergalactic rescue mission Evil space piggies have stolen their eggs and are hiding them somewhere in outer space. To save them, the Angry Birds have teamed up with National Geographic to learn all they can about planets, moons, stars, galaxies, and the mysteries of the universe. Four chapters take the readers deeper and deeper into space--each one packed with Angry Birds, astounding space photography, and fascinating "Astrofacts" and "Space Data" features that su...
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This book is your comprehensive workbook for 6th Grade Common Core Math.

By practicing and mastering this entire workbook, your child will become very familiar and comfortable with the state math exam and common core standards. This 6th Grade Common Core Math Workbook (Free Response) includes:

- 20 Weeks of Daily Multiple Choice Practice

- Weekly Assessments

- State Aligned Common Core Curriculum

- End of Year Assessment

For practice with Multiple Choice questions, be sure to check out Part I of our workbook titled:

This book is your comprehensive workbook for 6th Grade Common Core Math.

By practicing and mastering this entire workbook, your child will become very familiar and comfortable with the state math exam and common core standards. This 6th Grade Common Core Math Workbook (Multiple Choice) includes:

- 20 Weeks of Daily Multiple Choice Practice

- Weekly Assessments

- State Aligned Common Core Curriculum

- End of Year Assessment

For practice with Free Response questions, be sure to check out Part II of our workbook titled:

Create a world of fun and enchantment with polymer clay

You can transform a batch of colorful polymer clay into a fantasy world right out of your imagination. You'll find basic techniques for sculpting 10 easy shapes that can be used to create dozens of different creatures, plus details for faces, eyes, noses, ears, mouths, hands, paws and feet.

You'll learn how to shape 30 detailed and colorful fantasy characters in all, including:

• Dragons and sea serpents
• Goblins and fairies
• Pigs and rabbits
• Birds and horses
• Ghosts, snakes, teddy...
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These giant books of projects and experiments take a hands-on approach to science concepts. Hundreds of simple and easy experiments explore various scientific principles behind natural phenomena like friction, centrifugal force, and the underlying laws of physics that help make machines work. These fun yet practical experiments make it easy for anyone to become a rocket scientist
What makes a wind-up toy move? Why do you oil your bicycle chain but not your brake pads? Hands-On Science: Forces and Motion by Sarah Angliss and Maggie Hewson helps kids master the laws of force and motion t...
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Ten million Americans live in hurricane danger zones, but how do we know if or when to evacuate? We must predict both when a storm will strike and how strong it will be. A daring NASA earth science mission may have finally found a way to crack this hurricane code.

Dr. Scott Braun is the principal investigator for the Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel mission (HS3), which flies repurposed military drone over hurricanes so that scientists can gather data. But the stakes are high and time is running out.

In the first Scientists in the Field book entirely about weath...
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