The California Frog-Jumping Contest: Algebra (Contexts for Learning Mathematics,Grades 4-6: Investigating Fractions, Decimals, and Percents)
By Unknown Author.
Description
The California Frog-Jumping Contest: Algebra is one of five units in the Contexts for Learning Mathematics' Investigating Fractions, Decimals, and Percents (4 - 6) This unit uses the context of the famous short story by Mark Twain - The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County - to develop equivalence and its use in solving algebraic problems. The context of a frog jumping along a track is used to foster number line representations in which students solve for an unknown amount, which is usually the length of a frog jump. Equivalent sequences of jumps are represented nat...
ISBN(s)
0325010242, 9780325010243
