Awesome Math

<p><b>Help your students to think critically and creatively through team-based problem solving instead of focusing on testing and outcomes.</b><b> </b></p> <p>Professionals throughout the education system are recognizing that standardized testing is holding students back. Schools tend to view children as <i>outcomes</i> rather than as <i>individuals</i> who require guidance on thinking critically and creatively. <i>Awesome Math </i>focuses on team-based problem solving to teach discrete mathematics, a subject essential for success in the STEM careers of the future. Built on the increasingly popular growth mindset, this timely book emphasizes a problem-solving approach for developing the skills necessary to think critically, creatively, and collaboratively.</p> <p>In its current form, math education is a series of exercises: straightforward problems with easily-obtained answers. Problem solving, however, involves multiple creative approaches to solving meaningful and interesting problems. The authors, co-founders of the multi-layered educational organization AwesomeMath, have developed an innovative approach to teaching mathematics that will enable educators to:</p> <ul> <li>Move their students beyond the <i>calculus trap</i> to study the areas of mathematics most of them will need in the modern world</li> <li>Show students how problem solving will help them achieve their educational and career goals and form lifelong communities of support and collaboration</li> <li>Encourage and reinforce curiosity, critical thinking, and creativity in their students</li> <li>Get students into the growth mindset, coach math teams, and make math fun again</li> <li>Create lesson plans built on problem based learning and identify and develop educational resources in their schools</li> </ul> <p><i>Awesome Math: Teaching Mathematics with Problem Based Learning</i> is a must-have resource for general education teachers and math specialists in grades 6 to 12, and resource specialists, special education teachers, elementary educators, and other primary education professionals.</p>