Overview - MATH FOR THE WORLD OF WORK - STUDENT WORKBOOK
Teach students the math skills they need to enter the workforce.
Plan a business-oriented curriculum for your students with this full-color,
easy-to-read text that focuses on the skills students need on the job. Math
for the World of Work covers critical skills like whole numbers, fractions,
decimals, averages, estimating, measurements, and ratios. Each skill is introduced
in a cross-curricular context that helps students learn about the business world.
Lessons are reinforced with problem-solving activities, exercises, and review
questions to give students plenty of practice and solidify their understanding
of new skills. And features like Application Activities and Technology Connections
ensure that students understand how to apply the skills they acquire.
• Aligns with NCTM Standards
• ELL/ESL appropriate
• Build reluctant readers’ confidence with easy-to-read, high-interest
text
• Engage students with Application Activities that relate mathematical
concepts directly to common workplace activities
• Help students focus on chapter objectives with Goals for Learning
• Encourage technology-based problem solving with Technology Connections
exercises
• Reinforce writing and communication skills, as well as mathematical concepts,
with the Writing About Mathematics feature
• Plan lessons and activities easily with more than 200 additional activities
on the Teacher’s Resource Library CD-ROM
Topics covered:
• Wages
• Benefits
• Kinds of Businesses
• Human Resource Departments
• Business Travel
• Corporate Banking
• Operating Expenses
• Business Management
• Casualty Insurance
• Government Regulations
• Risks for Business Owners
• Sales and Marketing
• Mail-Order Business
Wraparound Teacher's Edition includes the full student text plus teaching
strategies, lesson overviews, application activities, ideas for classroom projects,
and tips on learning styles
Teacher's Resource Library on CD-ROM contains the Student Workbook offering
dozens of reinforcement activities (also available in print), Self-Study Guide
for students who want to work at their own pace, two forms of chapter tests,
plus midterm and final tests. Just select and print out the materials as needed.
Everything is reproducible. For Windows and Macintosh.
Teaching Strategies in Math Transparencies stimulate learning and discussion
in the classroom. Graphic organizers present concepts in a meaningful, visual
way and help you teach students how to manage information. Comes with instruction
book and blackline masters.
Skill Track Software, a CD-ROM program, allows students to review each
lesson and/or chapter within the textbook at their own pace. Includes hundreds
of multiple-choice items that directly relate to the textbook's content. Built-in
teacher management software allows the instructor to track student progress
and print reports. For Windows and Macintosh.
Curriculum Class Set includes 10 Student Texts, 1 Teacher's Edition,
and 1 Teacher's Resource Library CD.
Inclusion Class Set includes 3 Student Texts, 1 Teacher's Edition, 1
Teacher's Resource Library CD, and 1 Student Workbook.