Your students are bored to tears by Math.
Solution: Our educational CD-ROM
Many of them find the subject incomprehensible.
They tell you it'll never be of any use to them.
The extra-bright kids doze because it's all too easy.
provides some new and different ideas about teaching
math,
that many teachers have found invaluable. It will help you ...
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Teach them the beginnings of Algebra.
Show them how easy it is to compute the sum of the numbers from 1 to a million! Let them learn the elementary rules which'll help them solve word problems. Introduce them to graphs, and let them plot any equation they can think of. Tell them about Chaos Theory, which suggests that a butterfly flapping its wings in China may cause a tornado in Texas next month. Describe the fascinating geometry problem two teen-age mathematicians recently solved. Give them an introduction to Geometry. Tell them about Euclid, and Pythagoras, and let them see how useful it is to be able to compute the sides of a right triangle (for example, in calculating how far you can see when you're 100 feet, or 2 miles, or any distance above the Earth's surface). Describe the workings of a two-dimensional world, Flatspace, and make them think what a four-dimensional world might be like. Introduce them to pi, that famous old constant. Teach them a little Trigonometry, so they can compute the proper compass course for a plane being blown sideways by the wind, or learn how to measure the height of a local hill or building. Show them how trig is used by astronomers and surveyors. Give them new insight into fractions and percentages -- two subjects which often seem confusing to children. |
Show them that Numbers aren't as dull as they seem.
Teach them some famous paradoxes, and show them some numerical paradoxes - - for example, that there are just as many fractions as there are whole numbers, and that a short line contains just as many points as does a long line! Tell them about binary numbers, which are based on the number two where our decimal system is based on ten. Let them learn some Probability. Show them how to calculate the chance that two kids in your class have the same birthday. Teach them how to figure the likelihood that they'll roll a seven with two dice. Introduce them to Topology. Let them make a Mobius Strip (a piece of paper that has only one side and one edge, and that can be used in a marvelous magic trick), and solve the famous puzzle of the Bridges of Konigsberg. Show them how to conduct mathematical experiments, and how to figure out mathematical rules from those experiments. Gnarly Math has a Math Lab where you or your kids can do just that. (You can download free examples here, if you like.) Let them play math games and solve math puzzles ... and see neat magic tricks and optical illusions. |
Click below to see a host of specific, clearly-described math teaching ideas ... useful to parents of homeschoolers as well as school teachers at all levels.
You don't need a classroom computer to use the ideas in Gnarly Math. If you yourself have access to a computer, you'll find a special section in Gnarly Math that makes many specific suggestions on how you can teach math in ways that will encourage and interest your students. It will guide you to topics from which you can select assignments appropriate to individual children, and it includes ideas on how to help those discouraged children who find math difficult.
But if you do have a classroom computer (it must be a PC running under Windows, or a Mac or iMac with Windows hardware or software), your kids can explore Gnarly Math on their own. Or (if you have a projector) you can put subjects from our CD on a screen in your classroom.
Our CD-ROM Solid Gold Gnarly Math is the only CD that treats the six main branches of mathematics: Algebra, Geometry, Numbers, Probability, Trig, and Topology.
Click the Paypal button below on the left, and you can be changing your students' view of math within the next week. If you're not delighted with our CD-ROM, you can return it any time in the next five years and get a full refund. So you can't lose!
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