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Resource Type: Online Activities
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Figure This! offers students challenging activities to do at school or at home with their parents to enhance their problem solving ability in a range of content areas. While the site is designed for middle grades students, many of the challenges could be attempted by younger students or they could be easily adapted by a skillful teacher. Each challenge has a description of the math involved, a note on where the math is used in the real world, a hint if needed, complete solutions, a "Try This" section, additional related problems with answers, questions to think about, fun facts related to the math, and resources for further exploration.
You can search for challenges by mathematical topic or simply by the challenge. Figure This! has family support materials including: sample questions to ask teachers and administrators about the school setting, information on how to prepare students for continuing education, suggestions to help with math homework, information on the changes in mathematics education, and examples of math in literature. These resources, designed especially for families, are in the Family Corner. The Figure This! activities can be downloaded from the download page in PDF format.
Homesite Description - This resource is contained in the following Web site
Figure This!
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Figure This! is a public awareness program funded by the National Science Foundation and the U. S. Department of Education.
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http://www.figurethis.org/index40.htm
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