NASA wants to send humans to Mars within the next 25 years, but before that can happen, they must plan and prepare. This 6-Pack of math readers will engage students as they read about STEM topics, building both their literacy skills and math content knowledge.
With a focus on NASA's Mission to Mars, students will learn problem solving through the use of real-world examples. Captivating images, practice problems, and mathematical charts and diagrams help develop students' problem solving skills.
This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a content-area focused lesson plan.
Travel Adventures: Komodo National Park: Operations with Whole Numbers
Grade: 5-8
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Sixth grade students will read about Komodo dragons and Komodo national park while learning operations with whole numbers. This book integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help students explore math in meaningful ways.
Art and Culture: Origami: Dividing Fractions
Grade: 5-8
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Two students receive a math assignment involving origami. With help from their grandmother and some fraction and division know-how, they'll conquer the challenge. This math reader uses real-world examples to help students explore math in meaningful ways.
The Hidden World of Urban Farming: Operations with Decimals
Grade: 5-8
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Join the urban farming revolution and learn operations with decimals along the way. This math reader integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help 6th grade students explore math in meaningful ways.
STEM: Living with Type 1 Diabetes: Understanding Ratios
Grade: 5-8
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Learn what it's like to live with Type 1 diabetes and the importance of calculating ratios. This math reader integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help 6th grade students explore math in meaningful ways.
Money Matters: School Fundraisers: Problem Solving with Ratios
Grade: 5-8
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Practice using ratios while engaged in reading this fiction story about a school newspaper threatened by budget cuts. This title integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help 6th grade students explore math in meaningful ways.
Fun and Games: The Wild World of Birding: Using Ratios
Grade: 5-8
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Take a journey through the wild world of birding and learn ratios along the way. This nonfiction math reader integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help 6th grade students explore math in meaningful ways.
Spectacular Sports: Motocross: Rational Numbers
Grade: 5-8
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Learn what it takes to be successful in the high-intensity sport of motocross and practice using rational numbers. This math book integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help 6th grade students explore math in meaningful ways.
Fun and Games: Disc Golf: Rational Numbers
Grade: 5-8
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Learn rational numbers as you read about disc golf, an up-and-coming sport that just about anyone can play. This math reader integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help 6th grade students explore math in meaningful ways.
On the Job: Underwater Investigators: Plotting Rational Numbers
Grade: 5-8
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Learn about plotting rational numbers as you read about the thrilling missions of underwater investigators. This math reader integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help 6th grade students explore math in meaningful ways.
The Hidden World of Hackers: Expressions
Grade: 5-8
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Master mathematical expressions as you explore the secret lives of the computer-programming experts known as hackers. This math reader integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help students explore math in meaningful ways.
On the Job: First Responders: Expressions, Equations, and Inequalities
Grade: 5-8
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Learn about the work that first responders do, the lifesaving tools they use, and the future of first response work. This math reader integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help students explore math in meaningful ways.
STEM: The Remarkable Ringed Planets: Problem Solving with Variables
Grade: 5-8
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Learn about the ringed planets with this math reader that integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help 6th grade students explore math in meaningful ways.
Engineering Marvels: Muscle Cars: Graphs, Tables, and Equations
Grade: 5-8
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Discover how muscle cars connected speed, science, and style as you connect and relate graphs, tables, and equations with this engaging math reader.
Travel Adventures: Banff National Park: Area
Grade: 5-8
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Tag along on a trip to Banff National Park and learn how to calculate area along the way. This math reader integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help 6th grade students explore math in meaningful ways.
Fun and Games: Escape Rooms: Polygons
Grade: 5-8
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Four students must use their math skills to solve an escape room. This fiction math reader integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help 6th grade students explore math in meaningful ways.
Amazing Animals: Terrarium Pets: Volume
Grade: 5-8
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Not all pets have fur and four legs. Snakes, lizards, frogs, spiders, and scorpion can make great pets, too. Read about terrarium pets and how to make them feel right at home while learning to problem solve with volume.
Engineering Marvels: Buildings Around the World: Nets and Surface Area
Grade: 5-8
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From castles to skyscrapers, read about engineering marvels while learning surface area. This math reader integrates math and literacy skills and uses real-world examples to help 6th grade students explore math in meaningful ways.
Spectacular Sports: Baseball: Statistical Questions and Measures
Grade: 5-8
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Talking baseball can seem like speaking a different language. What's behind all those acronyms? The answer is: statistics! Learn statistics while reading about baseball, the sport of numbers.
The History of Listening to Music: Displaying Data
Grade: 5-8
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Musical tastes may differ from person to person, but listening to music is a fundamental part of the human experience. Analyze the data about how people have listened to music throughout history with this fun math reader.
Amazing Animals: Working Dogs: Summarizing Data
Grade: 5-8
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Every day, service dogs, therapy dogs, screening dogs, guide dogs, and military working dogs help humans in many ways. Read about the amazing world of working dogs as you learn to summarize data.
