Product Description
This second edition of the popular math teaching resource book Math Stories for Problem Solving Success offers updated true-to-life situations designed to motivate teenagers to use math skills for solving everyday problems. The book features intriguing short stories followed by sets of problems related to the stories that are correlated to the standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Each of the easy-to-read stories is followed by three increasingly difficult groups of problem sets. This makes it simple for teachers to select the appropriate problem set for students of different abilities and at different grade levels. To further enhance student involvement, the stories feature recurring characters and can be used either sequentially or out of order. The problems in the book cover many basic math topics, including decimals, fractions, and percents; measurement; geometry; data, statistics, and probability; algebra; and problem solving.

In addition to having all the answers, an Answer Key at the end of the book offers explanations and background information about the problems that can be helpful to both teachers and students.

Math Stories for Problem Solving Success will help you show students that math is something they are already using every day. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (4)

Wow!If only there were more time!
This book is absolutely awesome.No student can ever ask, "when will I use this?" with this book in your arsenal.I just wish there was more time in the class day to incoorporate more of this book.I've only used the first couple of lessons, but they use algebra, finance, and application skills.Fantastic!

nice resource
Finding adult appropriate materials at the right level for intermediate Adult Ed can be challenging. I like this book because it's not TOO juvenile and it's contextual and relatable for my students.They've loved the 3 units we've done and I look forward to using it for the rest of this year.

math problems are great, but beware the storyline...
We were looking for a good math word problem book and came across this one at the local book store. The concept is great: have a story in paragraph form, followed by three sets of word problems related to the story (A is easiest, B is harder, C is hardest). Furthermore, there is a multi-threaded storyline that ties each story together.

Unfortunately, the subject matter of the storyline is a bit too much. For instance, it starts off about a girl whose father just passed away due to a construction accident and she and her mother must move in with her aunt to get by. They meet a boy who was just kicked out of his home and dropped out of school. The second story is about how the boy steals food from a vending machine and then decides to rob a local Burger King! He gets arrested and ends up doing community service to pay for damages.

I suspect the book was written so that certain portions of the population could relate with the storyline, thereby gaining more interest in the math. However, our family simply found it too much primetime-TV like.

It would be great if someone could have incorporated a more innocent storyline.

Great Help
My 13 year old grandson was having problems with story math problems so I got this book for him.He said it really helped. ... Read more

Product Description
Continuing the successful Scholastic "100" workbook series, this product provides 100, full-color, full-spread math activities that kids need to cover by and in second grade.
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