The Make It Real Superbundle includes these titles:
- Make It Real Activity Library Volume I
- Make It Real Activity Library II
- States by the Numbers
"Why do I need to know this?" The Make It Real Activity Library I & II, comprising 22 distinct workbooks, sets out to answer this question. Each workbook contains activities or problem situations taken from real-life, with real data. Some examples of the situations are: cell phone plans, autism, population growth, cooking, borrowing money, credit cards, life spans, music downloads, etc. etc.
As students work through the problems, they can use the math skills and concepts they have learned in their math curriculum (such as the concept of average or graphing), and apply those to a situation from real-life. In addition, each activity-lesson in the book contains several questions about the situation, starting with basics and going into more in-depth evaluations, and should be adequate for one-two complete class periods.
The States by the Numbers series contains 50 workbooks, one for each state in the United States. The data in each workbook is taken directly from the Census Bureau's 2008 Statistical Abstract of the United States.
Each of these workbooks includes basic instruction and 80 practice problems. Additionally, the "What's the big idea?" pages give learners the opportunity to reflect on the things they've learned. Throughout the workbook series, the author has consistently sought to address the content and process standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
NOTE: This is a CD product only.
