Math Lit 1st Edition Almy Test Bank

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Product Details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0321818458
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0321818454
• Author: Kathleen Almy, Heather Foes

Table of contents:

Part 1: Gear Up

1.1 Focus Problem, Step 1: Understand the Problem

• Exposure to an open-ended problem on a medical error
  • Previews the use of rates and units and Polya’s problem solving process

1.2 Getting Started: Syllabus

• Group activity to learn course policies
  • Develops critical reading skills

1.3 Getting Started: Skills

• Venn diagrams are used to explore prerequisite knowledge
  • Reviews prerequisite skills
  • Develops Venn diagrams

1.4 Getting Started: Groups

• Personality test to improve group dynamics
  • Develops knowledge of the Cartesian coordinate system
  • Develops the ability to plot and read ordered pairs
  • Exposes students to the term variable

1.5 A Tale of Two Numbers (FP)

• Exploration of ratios and rates used in daily life
  • Previews scaling fractions
  • Develops ratio and rates concepts including notation

1.6 Part and Whole

• Conceptual review of fraction operations
  • Reviews fraction concepts and operations
  • Develops the skill of drawing a picture

1.7 The Elusive A in Math

• Assess traits necessary to success in mathematics
  • Develops pie and bar graphs
  • Connects equivalent fractions and scaling
  • Previews working with axes and increments on them

1.8 Two by Two

• Visualizing situations with scatterplots
  • Develops scatterplots
  • Applies pie graphs and plotting points

1.9 Multiply or Divide? (FP)

• Daily situations that involve unit conversions by multiplying or dividing
  • Develops unit conversions
  • Applies student success knowledge from 1.7

Part 1 Recap

 Part 2: Shift Gears

1.10 Focus Problem, Step 2: Devise a Plan

• Revisit focus problem and develop a plan to solve it
  • Applies knowledge gained to date

1.11 Higher or Lower? (FP)

• Compare two pay structures with graphs, tables, and Excel
  • Previews integers, equations, like terms, and the commutative property
  • Develops percent calcuations, the concept of a function, and generalizing a calculation
  • Applies scaling

1.12 The X Factor

• Important algebraic vocabulary
  • Develops the terms equation, expression, constant, variable, term
  • Applies Venn diagrams
  • Reviews pi

1.13 Take Two and Call Me…

• Interpreting a graph that accompanies a medicine
  • Connects scaling with units and rates
  • Develops understanding of rates and units
  • Applies independent/dependent variables, function concepts, and reading ordered pairs

1.14 Good Eats (FP)

• Understanding nutrition labels and nutrition guidelines
  • Develops the concept of proportionality
  • Applies fraction and percent skills

1.15 General Number

• Generalizing patterns with variables
  • Exposes students to Fibonacci sequence
  • Develops generalizing a pattern, inductive and deductive reasoning
  • Previews simplifying expressions

1.16 Up and Down (FP)

• Percent situations from daily life
  • Previews integers
  • Develops the concept of percent change
  • Applies the skills of finding the percent of a number and increasing or decreasing a number by a percent

1.17 The Social Network

• Exploration of viral growth on the internet
  • Previews order of operations and slope concepts
  • Develops the concepts of linear and exponential growth
  • Applies the idea of generalizing a pattern
  • Exposes students to building a mathematical model
  • Connects exponential growth and percent of increase

Part 2 Recap

 Part 3: Wind Down

1.18 Focus Problem, Step 3: Carry Out the Plan

• Revisit focus problem and solve it
  • Applies knowledge gained to date

1.19 Cookie Monster

• Recipe conversion to decrease its size
  • Connects conversions with scaling
  • Applies fraction skills
  • Applies unit conversion skills

1.20 Picture This

• Matching scenarios with graphs
  • Exposes students to fitting data with a curve
  • Connects scatterplots and types of change

1.21 Infinity and Beyond

• Exploration of Sierpinski triangles and their patterns
  • Connects area and perimeter to generalizing a pattern
  • Applies concepts of area and perimeter
  • Exposes students to Sierpinski triangles
  • Connects proportionality to similar triangles

1.22 Error and Estimation: Liquid Medicine

• Impact of being inaccurate with liquid medicine
  • Exposes students to volume concepts
  • Applies the concepts of constant and variable
  • Applies the concepts of independent and dependent variables
  • Applies unit conversions
  • Previews order of operations

1.23 Focus Problem, Step 4: Look Back

• Reflect on focus problem and cycle as a whole
  • Debriefs the focus problem solution

 Cycle Wrap-up

• Active test preparation exercises
  • Reviews topics, skills, and concepts from the cycle
  • Connects cycle skills and concepts to apply them to new problems

CYCLE 2

Part 1: Gear Up

2.1 Focus Problem, Step 1: Understand the Problem

• Exposure to an open-ended problem on baseball’s magic number
  • Previews the use of expressions, formulas, and integers

2.2 It’s All Relative (FP)

• Work with atoms and ions to develop integer concepts
  • Develops integer concepts
  • Previews integer operations

2.3 Sign and Size, Part 1 (FP)

• Real-life situations to develop signed number addition/subtraction rules
  • Develops integer operations of addition and subtraction
  • Applies integer concepts and operations to realistic scenarios

2.4 Sign and Size, Part 2

• Use of patterns to develop signed number multiplication/division rules
  • Develops integer operations multiplication and division
  • Defines real numbers
  • Exposes students to imaginary numbers
  • Reviews the concept of square roots

2.5 An Ounce of Prevention

• Grades situations to understand means
  • Develops means conceptually and numerically
  • Previews order of operations

2.6 Measure Up

• Geometric formulas with units to develop exponent rules
  • Develops whole number exponent properties
  • Applies geometric formulas
  • Applies the use of units in calculations

2.7 Count Up (FP)

• Common situations with like terms
  • Develops like terms
  • Applies knowledge of formulas
  • Exposes students to polynomial terminology and addition/subtraction

Part 1 Recap

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