Animation and real-life examples make math vocabulary come alive. Learn many math words including equal, more than, less than, number, half, whole, most, least, pair, alike, several, many, always, never, almost, and middle. Concepts include reasoning, separating into parts, concepts of order, and number sense. Great for all kids! Excellent support for English Language Learners. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) Pennies (2) Pies (3) Going to school (4) At the candy store (5) Helping dad.
Subjects: General
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Learning to use Graphs
Colorful graphics make it easy to learn how graphs are used to organize information. Understand how to read a pictograph. Learn how to build and read a bar graph. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) Introduction (2) What is a graph? (3) Pictographs (4) Key (5) Bar Graph (6) Review and Conclusion.
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Learning about Sorting and Grouping
Explore the concepts of alike and different. Understand the steps taken to sort or classify objects into groups. Learn to group objects according to one attribute and multiple attributes. Discover how the five senses are helpful in sorting objects. Sort objects by texture, shape, size, color, and mass. Learn that sorting relates to a variety of arenas including sorting producers and consumers, money from different countries, animals and plants, geometric figures, and letters and words. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.
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Learning to use a Calendar
Before students recognize that holidays are celebrated on special days, they must first learn ways of using a calendar and recognize how a calendar is organized. Students learn about days, weeks, months, and years on a calendar. They also learn about the relationship between the calendar and the Earth’s movement around the sun. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections.
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Charts, Graphs, and Diagrams
Learn how to read data and directions shown in charts, graphs, and diagrams. Examples show how data and directions relate to everyday events like finding rides on the playground, planning a fire escape route, comparing a team’s win-loss records, using a TV schedule, or building a model. Illustrates that students come in contact with charts, graphs, and diagrams in daily life. DVD features include on-screen teacher’s guide and vocabulary plus chapter selections: (1) Introduction/graphs (2) Graphs (3) Charts (4) Diagrams (5) Review.
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Algebraic Notation
Another winner in the Mathemania brand, this is a clear and concise explanation of algebraic notation. In this program we start with an introduction to algebraic notation, then examine algebraic definitions and mathematical models, bringing it all together with the road test – creating a mathematical story. With a clear explanations of pronumerals and their practical uses in everyday life, this is an engaging and educational program just perfect for math students.
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Decimals – the accuracy of numbers
Decimal numbers come into our lives just about every day. This program explores the world of decimal numbers where we share a day in the life of the presenter who entertains us in her own quirky way. We head to the beach and look at number lines; work out some high finance when buying an ice cream – adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing decimal numbers; a surf clothing shop to examine percentages; finishing up with rounding off decimal numbers; and estimating.
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Rational numbers – we are proportional
This program provides students with a lively introduction to key concepts involved with triangles and quadrilaterals. It includes defining rational numbers as the ratio of two integers, defining rational numbers as a terminating or repeating decimal, the concept of proportional reasoning and examples of converting between decimals and rational numbers. The Mathemania style gets these foundational principles of math well and truly out of the classroom and into the imaginations of junior high school students.
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Integers – the whole thing
Integers are all around us and used for many different purposes. This program explores the world of integers where we share a day in the life of the presenter who entertains us in her own quirky way, taking us to a snooker hall, then to a shopping mall and finally the basketball court, demonstrating how integers permeate many aspects of everyday life. Starting with the representation of integers on a number line, the program looks at the relative size of integers, various computations with integers, estimation and the order of operations, and applications of integers.
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Roots: The radical idea
In this entertaining program, we cover an introduction to roots and radicals, explore how roots can be simplified, carry out some operations with radicals, examine methods of approximation of roots and finish off by looking at an application involving the Pythagorean Theorem. A clear, concise and engaging explanation of roots and radicals.