Teachers in Brookline, Massachusetts, suggest the following correlations between our problems and MathScape. MathScape is a mathematics curriculum for grades 6-8 developed by the Seeing and Thinking Mathematically Project at Education Development Center in collaboration with Creative Publications. Funded in large part by the National Science Foundation, the curriculum is published by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill.

Grade 6

What Does The Data Say?

• For: Graphs and Averages
  Mean Towers

The Languages of Numbers

• For: Inventing and Comparing Number Systems
  A place in Babylon

From Zero to One and Beyond

• For: Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
  Being a smart calculator
  Checkers challenge

Designing Spaces

• For: Visualize, Planning, and Building
  No current suggestions.

Number Powerhouse

• For: Operating with Fractions, Decimals, and Percents
  No current suggestions.

Gulliver's Worlds

• For: Measuring and Scaling
  Sweet ice cream

Patterns in Numbers and Shapes

• For: Using Algebraic Thinking
  Coins in my pocket
  Steep Thinking
  Domain Event Problem
  Arrangements in a circle
  Counting with tournaments

Grade 7

Buyer Beware

• For: Rates, Ratios, Percents, and Proportions
  Sweet ice cream
  Perspective in art

Chance Encounters

• For: Probability in Games and Simulations
  No current suggestions.

Making Mathematical Arguments

• For: Generalizing About Numbers
  And multiples all in a row
  Which fractions become terminating decimals?
  Finding digits using divisibility tests
  Cut a square into squares
  Powers of two

From the Ground Up

• For: Modeling, Measuring, and Constructing Homes
  Fill the Square

The Language of Algebra

• For: Equations, Tables, and Graphs
  The binomial theorem

Getting Down to Business

• For: Functions and Spreadsheets
  No current suggestions.

Getting In Shape

• For: Exploring Two-Dimensional Figures
  What is it?
  Measuring pi
  Interior angles of polygons
  Three special
  Maximum areas
  Lattice point polygons
  Triangle with restricted angle sum
  What's the distance between these points?
  Fill the Square Problem

Grade 8

Looking Behind the Numbers

• For: Correlations, Rankings, and Permutations
  Are they different or the same?
  Counting with tournaments

Mathematics of Motion

• For: Distance, Speed, and Time
  What are arithmetic sequences and series for?
  Sally Snail: Travel at constant rate
  Graphing motion with numbers

Shapes and Space

• For: Thinking Three-Dimensionally
  No current suggestions.

What Comes Next

• For: Modeling and Predicting
  Inventing a formula for arithmetic sequences

Exploring the Unknown

• For: Writing and Solving Equations
  Age-related algebra
  Guess my rule! 1
  Commutativity and associativity
  The binomial theorem 1

Roads and Ramps

• For: Slopes, Angles, and Ratios
  Lucky 13 Path Puzzle

Family Portraits

• For: Comparing Function Families
  What is a function?
  Strangely defined linear function