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Mind-bending math and science activities for gifted students (grades K-12 / Rosemary Callard-Szulgit, Greg Karl Szulgit.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006Description: xvi, 166 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1578863171
  • 9781578863174
Other title:
  • Mind-bending maths and science activities for gifted students (grades K-12
  • Mind-bending math and science activities for gifted students (grades K-twelve
  • Mind-bending maths and science activities for gifted students (grades K-twelve
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 372.7 22
LOC classification:
  • QA16 .C35 2006
Contents:
Part one: Math activities. Creative conversions (and the "Smoot") -- Using Microsoft Excel as a teaching tool -- Figure this -- Lunch bunch -- The map problem -- Math question of the day -- Mind-benders -- Place-value games -- Stock market game -- Snowflakes -- STEM -- Part two: Science activities. Chemistry Olympiad -- Challenger center for space science education -- The cutting edge -- Hurricane hunters -- The Intel science talent search -- JASON expedition -- Life might be out there -- Marble machines -- Nature's artful architecture -- Pinhole cameras -- Science Olympiad -- Science toy maker -- Space day-101 ways to celebrate -- Tiny words -- Tree of life -- Part three: Technology/business opportunities. Girls go tech -- Let's get real -- The PPG industries foundation -- Part four: Still more activities. Academic decathlon and Northrup corporation -- Can't you sit still? -- Classroom Earth and environmental experimental education -- Explorer schools and NASA -- Internet chess club -- Inversions -- MIT inventeams -- A walk in the woods -- Part five: Academic environs. Duke University Talent Identification Program (TIP) -- MEADOW -- Moss Meadow School -- The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics -- Part six: Reflections on education. Did you know you're my hero? -- I forgive you -- Gifted children speak to us -- A letter to the parents -- Three popular questions and commonsense answers.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-163).

Part one: Math activities. Creative conversions (and the "Smoot") -- Using Microsoft Excel as a teaching tool -- Figure this -- Lunch bunch -- The map problem -- Math question of the day -- Mind-benders -- Place-value games -- Stock market game -- Snowflakes -- STEM -- Part two: Science activities. Chemistry Olympiad -- Challenger center for space science education -- The cutting edge -- Hurricane hunters -- The Intel science talent search -- JASON expedition -- Life might be out there -- Marble machines -- Nature's artful architecture -- Pinhole cameras -- Science Olympiad -- Science toy maker -- Space day-101 ways to celebrate -- Tiny words -- Tree of life -- Part three: Technology/business opportunities. Girls go tech -- Let's get real -- The PPG industries foundation -- Part four: Still more activities. Academic decathlon and Northrup corporation -- Can't you sit still? -- Classroom Earth and environmental experimental education -- Explorer schools and NASA -- Internet chess club -- Inversions -- MIT inventeams -- A walk in the woods -- Part five: Academic environs. Duke University Talent Identification Program (TIP) -- MEADOW -- Moss Meadow School -- The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics -- Part six: Reflections on education. Did you know you're my hero? -- I forgive you -- Gifted children speak to us -- A letter to the parents -- Three popular questions and commonsense answers.

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