Winning the Math Homework Challenge: Insights for Parents to See Math Differently

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If youve ever been stumped by your childs math homework, this is the book for you. Winning the Math Homework Challenge shares students reasoning, thinking, and even misunderstandings about mathematics to provide you with the opportunity to see math through their eyes, including both the clarity and the confusion. Armed with this new sight, and therefore insight, parents will be able to effectively communicate with their child about math experiences. This book focuses more on the why behind math relationships, explained in plain English and through images that show mathematical relationships. The ability to recognize connections among math topics significantly reduces the confusion and frustration that can accompany math homework. By including more images and fewer formulas, readers especially the visual-spatial learners are better equipped to understand how math concepts connect to each other. Finding and understanding these connections will allow parents to find their own math mojo and to pass on that legacy to their child.

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Mathematics is so much about relationships and seeing how objects and numbers fit together. This book affirms the value of visualization as a valid way of looking at mathematics. -- Marcia Perry, PhD
Mathematics Educator Catheryne Drapers Winning the Math Challenge is a gift to math students and their parents. Draper, a talented and wise math teacher, shares wisdom gained in decades of teaching. She reveals different ways of 'seeing' math, and she shows how learning styles and preferences influence students ability to understand. Her goal is to help parents help their children to become math aficionados instead of math avoiders. She makes this goal achievable by dispelling the only-one-right-answer-or-method myth, honoring the place of imagination in math thinking, and dropping the shame shackles often attached to those having trouble with math. This book shows an exciting, even liberating view of how to learn and enjoy math. Dont miss this chance to become your childs math mentor and to have a deepened understanding of math yourself. -- Sally Russell, author, teacher, mother and grandmother
Winning the Math Challenge explores and explains how we all approach learning differently. Mathematics has a rich set of rules and conventions to convey meaning and allow solution to problems. However, to a young student it is also a new language, with new concepts, new 'grammar' and new 'spelling.' Catheryne Draper does a wonderful job of showing how we can employ different ways to explain the meaning of those 'basic' concepts we are asked to learn in our early years. Just because we learned through one method in our school years, doesnt mean that our children should or best learn the same way. We can benefit our children by going back to school, to learn about learning. Winning the Math Challenge is an excellent place to start. -- Les Warrington, teacher, engineer, grandparent

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Catheryne Draper has been learning from her students for over half a century of teaching, supervising the math program in a school district, advising math education at the state level, coaching math in schools, and presenting math workshops for teachers. She is the creator of The Algebra Game, a hands-on multi-level algebra program that allows students to work together in cooperative groups or individually to identify the algebra relationships and patterns within the each topic and to connect concepts across the topics.