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Making Maths Meaningful: A Source Book for Grades 1-5
ISBN 9781938210204
Regular price $46.00by Nettie Fabrie, Wim Gottenbos, and Jamie York
Who can use this book? Most of the author’s teaching experience is within the Waldorf school system. Yet this source book can be effectively used by any teacher or homeschooling parent who wishes to teach meaningful, age-appropriate math.
The Math Tightrope. In teaching mathematics, perhaps like no other subject, we find ourselves walking a tightrope. If we step a bit to one side, a sizable portion of the class becomes perplexed and overwhelmed. If we correct ourselves to the other side, the quicker students get bored and the class as a whole doesn’t progress enough. For many teachers, each step along this tightrope brings up unpleasant memories from their own childhood.
As Waldorf teachers, we are aware that the teaching of math is more than just an intellectual exercise. We engage the will of the students as we use movement and rhythmical exercises to teach the times tables. Through appropriate stories, we engage the feeling realm of the students and spark their interest in math. Rudolf Steiner, the founder of the first Waldorf school, spoke of the importance of “permeating the soul with mathematics in the right way” and how a healthy relationship to mathematics can benefit the student’s later spiritual development.
Certainly, math in a Waldorf school is viewed differently and taught differently. Yet, the problems we face are often the same as in the mainstream. All too often, a class enters middle school with many of the students weak in math and saying, “I’m bad at math, and I hate it.”
Why is this so? How can we do better?
This book covers the following:
Principles of Waldorf education
Working with “struggling” students
Will our children be prepared?
Golden rules for teaching math
Topics in the math classroom
Ideas for manipulatives, movement, main lesson books, etc.
The art of teaching math
What makes this Waldorf math book different?
Detailed curriculum guidelines for first through fifth grade.
Overview of child development in each grade.
Specific ideas for every math main lesson.
Step-by-step progressions for learning the arithmetic facts, times table, basic
addition, and subtraction, long multiplication and long division, etc.
General ideas and suggestions for teaching math successfully in the lower grades.
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About the Authors Nettie Fabrie is a trained Waldorf teacher and remedial specialist from the Netherlands. From 1976 – 1993 she was a class teacher at the Brabant Waldorf School in Eindhoven. From 1995 – 1999 she taught history and art history in the high school. Nettie has mentored teachers in Holland, the Czech Republic and the US. She is on the core faculty of Sound Circle Center, co-directs the Grade School Teacher Training and SCC’s Mentorship Seminar, and is coordinator of the Remedial Program at Seattle Waldorf School.
Wim Gottenbos taught in Dutch public schools for 12 years before training and becoming a Waldorf teacher. Since then he has taken two classes 1st – 8th grade in Holland, and trained and worked as a Remedial Specialist and teacher mentor. He has carried many classes in all the lower school grades at the Seattle Waldorf School.
Jamie York’s search for meaningful education led him to Shining Mountain Waldorf School (in Boulder, Colorado), where he started teaching math in 1994. In addition to teaching middle and high school math, Jamie consults at Waldorf schools and teaches math workshops across North America. In the summer, he serves on the faculty at the Center of Anthroposophy (in Wilton, NH) as part of their Waldorf High School Teacher Education Program and adjunct professor of Antioch University, NH.
A Teacher’s Review.
I found the Lower School Source Book for Teaching Math in Grades One through Five extremely useful as a resource. It presents a fresh look at how to make math the exciting adventure that it truly is, instead of a list of procedures and skills that must be covered each year. It helped me understand the importance of giving students the opportunity to discover for themselves the magic of numbers and how they work, instead of focusing on the memorization of blind procedures. I loved how this book shifted the focus of my lessons from procedural skill building, to building a math capacity by placing the emphasis on developing a healthy sense of number, nurturing flexibility in thinking, and instilling a fearlessness for meeting new challenges. This book is a must-have if you are looking for a paradigm shift in how to educate children in a healthy way, yet it is also full of practical examples and fun math problems that you can lift right out of the book and apply directly to your lessons. While the first part of the book gives you an overview of important educational principles to keep in mind, the second part of the book gives detailed curriculum summaries and lesson topics for planning your lessons in grades one through five. I would highly recommend this Lower School Source Book for any teacher looking to deepen his or her understanding of math education in the lower grades. It has been a game changer in my teaching!
— Verita P. Teacher.
Softcover, 90 pages. 11 x 8"
2nd Edition Published by Jamie York Press.
Printed in the United States.
About the Author
Jamie York is a Steiner-Waldorf maths teacher and consultant, and creator of the Making Maths Meaningful programme. Born in Maine, he has taught maths at Shining Mountain Waldorf School in Boulder, Colorado for over twenty years. He consults for a variety of schools in the USA and internationally, and serves on the faculty at the Centre for Anthroposophy in Wilton, New Hampshire, training Waldorf high school maths teachers.
Making Maths Meaningful: A Source Book for Teaching Middle School Math (Gr 6-8)
ISBN 9781938210006
Regular price $49.00by Jamie York
This book is both a curriculum guide for middle school math and a source book for great ideas that enrich any teacher’s math lessons.
Included in this Source Book for Middle School Math:
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- A math curriculum guideline for grades 6-8.
- An essential resource for use with our grades 6-8 workbooks.
- Contains explanations of all concepts found in the workbooks.
- Ideas for all of the Waldorf math “main lessons” in grades 6-8.
- Includes an 11-page Introduction for the Teacher.
Who can use this book? Most of the author’s teaching experience is within the Waldorf school system. Yet this source book can be effectively used by any teacher or homeschooling parent who wishes to teach meaningful, age-appropriate math. The explanations in this book are also useful for parents (or tutors) who are helping their children in a math class that uses the curriculum laid out in this book.
Why this curriculum? When I started teaching at a Waldorf school, I was surprised to find that there were no textbooks. I was expected to create my own materials. This newfound freedom was both exciting and daunting. I proceeded to research what was happening at other Waldorf schools regarding math curriculum. I spent a great deal of time creating my own worksheets. My original question (“What should I teach?”) was soon transformed into, “What topics would best help in developing the thinking and imagination of my middle school students?”
This book is intended to share with others what I have discovered and developed during this journey.
While most of the material is not overly difficult, much of it is foreign, even for math majors. In writing this book, I have assumed that the reader may be weak in math. I hope that with some effort, even the most difficult topic is understandable.
A teacher’s guide for middle school math, including:
The challenge of teaching math today
Practical advice and thoughts on teaching math
How can we ensure that our students are prepared for high school and beyond?
6th Grade topics: Fractions • decimals • percents • mental math and math tricks
divisibility • casting out nines • exponents and roots • prime factorization
converting repeating decimals to fractions • and more.
7th Grade topics: The metric system • percents • rates • ratios • irrational numbers • the square root algorithm • basic geometry • and more.
8th Grade topics: Pythagorean Theorem, exponential growth, proportions, area and volume, dimensional analysis (unit conversions), basic algebra skills, and more.
Detailed explanations of main lessons and less well-known topics, including:
Business math • The golden ratio • Number bases
Exchange rates • The Fibonacci sequence • Binary and ASCII code
Mental math & math tricks • Gauss’s summation formula • Computer algorithms
Converting repeating decimals • Angle theorems & proofs • Archimedes’ ratio
Geometric drawing • The four ratios of π • Platonic solids
Euclidean constructions • The square root algorithm
…and much more!
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Teachers’ Reviews of: A Source Book for Teaching Middle School Math:
I’ve been teaching many grade levels K-8 over the last ten years in mainstream education (five in Waldorf education) and have had my hands on many math curricula that were adequate in teaching the basic concepts in the different mathematical strands. But I always found that the programs were lacking in creating lasting understanding, enthusiasm and confidence with numbers. I began working with Making Math Meaningful in my fifth grade classroom at Madrone Trail Public Waldorf school in Oregon, and my students and I became so interested in what they might find out about how numbers worked! This carried into the junior high years, where many student who don’t have a natural affinity for numbers often become discouraged and uninterested in math. Through daily practice with the Making Math Meaningful’s workbooks, my students developed an amazing fluency and knack for the nature of numbers. !00% of the my students have met their math benchmarks for our state in 6th and 7th grade. This is only one measure of the efficacy of a math program. Through using this curriculum, my students are more creative in their problem solving and critical thinking, have cultivated good work habits and have come to find that each of them are able to learn the magic of mathematics. Most importantly perhaps, all of my students, regardless of ability, have come face to face with math problems that have challenged them to work and rework until a solution is found, and it is this skill that has helped prepare a group of 8th graders who will begin high school with a strong knowledge of self. They have developed a set of characteristics that will help them push forward when they’re in doubt and start working through an issue that seems to have no solution in sight. Jamie York has managed to prepare a math curriculum that supports the development of the whole child. It can be used by main stream public educators as well as in the Waldorf middle school math classroom, and it has become the must-have element of our school’s very successful math program.
— Alyssum Barber, Madrone Trail Waldorf Charter School, OR, USA
I am just completing my third Waldorf class teaching cycle and have used the Making Math Meaningful curriculum guides and workbooks for this cycle. My present eighth graders have mathematical thinking skills and basic arithmetic skills that surpass my former two classes. The grades six, seven, eight workbooks are challenging for me as a class teacher and definitely for my students, but it is a delight to experience the students’ enthusiasm when they “get it” with a new concept or remember a solution method from a previous year. I taught using more main stream math textbooks in my previous classes and, while my students went on to be solid high school and college math students, they did not show the level of creative and confident mathematical problem solving that my present class has. As an experienced Waldorf math teacher, Jamie York shows a deep understanding of when and how to introduce age-appropriate material and leads the teacher through the introduction of the pedagogical basis of each theme. He avoids the possible over-emphasis on teaching students math procedural skills and encourages teaching slowly and thoroughly so that students deeply absorb the material. And by helping a math or class teacher show how math is a fascinating, creative, yet quite achievable endeavor, Mr. York has helped me develop students who are on the path to becoming imaginative, analytical thinkers in high school.
— Nancy Pierce, Portland, OR, USA
I’m a 6th Grade Teacher and my students worked with your workbook this year, and I took many inspirations from your Middle School Curriculum Guide. I just wanted to let you know what a fabulous, positive experience it was. I think I found myself in that “difficult middle school spot” that teachers can get into. Parents wonder if what the class teacher offers is “enough” and how they will ever “learn” to use worksheets and such. My students have always been enthusiastic mathematicians. They loved working with the book, which we completed and are reviewing now during the past few weeks of school. I’m looking forward to using your workbooks for 7th grade as well.
— Claudia Thomas, Richmond, VA, USA
Softcover, 192 pages. 11 x 8.5".
Published by Jamie York Press.
Printed in the United States.
About the Author
Jamie York is a Steiner-Waldorf maths teacher and consultant, and creator of the Making Maths Meaningful programme. Born in Maine, he has taught maths at Shining Mountain Waldorf School in Boulder, Colorado for over twenty years. He consults for a variety of schools in the USA and internationally, and serves on the faculty at the Centre for Anthroposophy in Wilton, New Hampshire, training Waldorf high school maths teachers.
Making Maths Meaningful: Fun with Puzzles, Games, and More!
ISBN 9781938210020
Regular price $28.00by Jamie York, Mich Follari, and Randy Evans
An inspirational and easy-to-use resource book for teachers of Grades 4-12 who want to add interest and engagement to maths lessons.
Are you looking for a new math challenge for your students?
Do you need a resource of ideas that will give your students the opportunity to experience the thrill of mathematics?
And, what about providing a good puzzle or game that will give everyone the understanding of true problem-solving?
Randy Evans, Mick Follari and Jamie York have combined their knowledge and skills to create a puzzle and game book that is a perfect reference for the math classroom and for middle school and high school teachers everywhere.
The Purpose of This Book
This book is intended as a resource for math teachers in grades four through twelve, in part, to supplement the normal classroom material, such as Our Making Math Meaningful™ middle school and high school workbooks.
There may be times when things seem to get dull and the students begin to lose their spark. It is then that the teacher knows it is time to do something different. This book provides ideas for that “something different.”
What Makes This Book Unique?
There are many math puzzle books available today. However, it can be daunting for a teacher (especially a teacher in the lower grades for whom math is not a specialty) to pick up a math puzzle book that consists of a couple hundred puzzles, and find a good one that would work well for tomorrow’s math class.
This book is specifically geared toward the teacher who needs to find an excellent puzzle or game for tomorrow’s math class. We have tried to limit the number of puzzles and games to just a few excellent ones. We have categorized the puzzles according to grade level.
More about this book:
- It is intended that all puzzles listed under the middle school years ought to be solved without the use of algebra. Several of the high school puzzles use some algebra.
- Any puzzle may also be used for grades older than what it is listed for.
- Solutions to every puzzle appears at the end of the book.
- The intention in this book is to have just a few excellent games for the teacher to choose from.
- Math Magic Tricks. These great attention-grabbers help to develop a sense of wonder for numbers. They are especially effective in grades 5-7, but can also be used in the higher grades as an interesting algebra exercise to show why a given math magic trick works.
- Classroom Activities. This is a modest collection of activities that could possibly turn out to be the highlight of the year for a math class.
READ THE REVIEW IN WALDORF TODAY! by clicking HERE.
Barb, a parent, writes: If you want to make math interesting to students (they say 4th through high school, it is a great resource for anyone wanting to make math more interesting).
This book has (all segmented by grade) puzzles, games, math magic tricks, classroom activities (and of course solutions for the over 200 puzzles, games etc.
Why this book? The authors have collected very good puzzles for each grade, with the intent to provide students with the experience of a mathematical thrill, NOT just memorizing rote procedures.
Want to bring your math classes alive? sprinkle in some of these teasers… Having watched how author Jamie York creates stories and challenges for his students, it makes me wish I had teachers as interesting and engaging as this.
Bust the myths of “math is hard” and “Math is not interesting” with the puzzles in this book!!
Jamie York math is suited to Waldorf education but is known for being rigorous, and is used by homeschoolers and classroom teachers across curricula and pedagogy.
Softcover, 174 pages.
5.5 x 8.5"
3rd Edition Published by Jamie York Press.
Printed in the Unites States.
About the Author
Jamie York is a Steiner-Waldorf maths teacher and consultant, and creator of the Making Maths Meaningful programme. Born in Maine, he has taught maths at Shining Mountain Waldorf School in Boulder, Colorado for over twenty years. He consults for a variety of schools in the USA and internationally, and serves on the faculty at the Centre for Anthroposophy in Wilton, New Hampshire, training Waldorf high school maths teachers.
Making Maths Meaningful: 6th Grade Student Workbook
ISBN 9781938210037
Regular price $23.00by Jamie York
This student workbook contains a year’s worth of practice problems, exercises, and mathematical adventures for 6th grade.
View sample pages from this book in PDF Format.
Do you need an Answer Key or worked-out Solutions to Selected Problems?
Then you should purchase the Teacher’s Edition of the 6th Grade Workbook.
Is this for a teacher or parent? Then you should also purchase A Source Book for Teaching Middle School Math (by Jamie York). This is an essential resource for use with our workbooks.
Softcover, 59 pages. 8.5 x 11 inches.
Printed in the United States.
About the Author
Jamie York is a Steiner-Waldorf maths teacher and consultant, and creator of the Making Maths Meaningful programme. Born in Maine, he has taught maths at Shining Mountain Waldorf School in Boulder, Colorado for over twenty years. He consults for a variety of schools in the USA and internationally, and serves on the faculty at the Centre for Anthroposophy in Wilton, New Hampshire, training Waldorf high school maths teachers.
Making Maths Meaningful: 6th Grade Teacher's Edition
ISBN 9781938210044
Regular price $28.00by Jamie York
This Teacher’s Edition of the workbook contains a year’s worth of practice problems, exercises, and mathematical adventures for 6th grade, including:
THIS TEACHER’S EDITION CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING:
- The 6th Grade Student’s Workbook
- Answer Key
- Selected Worked-Out Solutions
- “To The Teacher” – a section offering advice for teaching 6th grade math
View sample pages from this book in PDF Format.
You should also purchase A Source Book for Teaching Middle School Math
(by Jamie York). This is an essential resource for teachers using our workbooks.
Softcover, 81 pages. 8.5 x 11 inches.
Printed in the United States.
About the Author
Jamie York is a Steiner-Waldorf maths teacher and consultant, and creator of the Making Maths Meaningful programme. Born in Maine, he has taught maths at Shining Mountain Waldorf School in Boulder, Colorado for over twenty years. He consults for a variety of schools in the USA and internationally, and serves on the faculty at the Centre for Anthroposophy in Wilton, New Hampshire, training Waldorf high school maths teachers.
Making Maths Meaningful: 7th Grade Student Workbook
ISBN 9781938210051
Regular price $31.00by Jamie York
This student workbook contains a year’s worth of practice problems, exercises, and mathematical adventures for 7th grade.
View sample pages from this book in PDF Format.
Do you need an Answer Key or worked-out Solutions to Selected Problems?
Then you should purchase the Teacher’s Edition of the 7th Grade Workbook.
Is this for a teacher or parent? Then you should also purchase A Source Book for Teaching Middle School Math (by Jamie York). This is an essential resource for use with our workbooks.
Softcover, 116 pages. 8.5" x 11".
Printed in the United States.
About the Author
Jamie York is a Steiner-Waldorf maths teacher and consultant, and creator of the Making Maths Meaningful programme. Born in Maine, he has taught maths at Shining Mountain Waldorf School in Boulder, Colorado for over twenty years. He consults for a variety of schools in the USA and internationally, and serves on the faculty at the Centre for Anthroposophy in Wilton, New Hampshire, training Waldorf high school maths teachers.
Making Maths Meaningful: 7th Grade Teacher's Edition
ISBN 9781938210068
Regular price $38.00by Jamie York
This Teacher’s Edition of the workbook contains a year’s worth of practice problems, exercises, and mathematical adventures for 7th grade, including:
The 7th Grade Student’s Workbook
Answer Key
Selected Worked-Out Solutions
“To The Teacher” – a section offering advice for teaching 7th grade math
View sample pages from this book in PDF Format.
You should also purchase A Source Book for Teaching Middle School Math
(by Jamie York). This is an essential resource for teachers using our workbooks.
Softcover, 142 pages. 8.5 x 11 inches.
Printed in the United States.
About the Author
Jamie York is a Steiner-Waldorf maths teacher and consultant, and creator of the Making Maths Meaningful programme. Born in Maine, he has taught maths at Shining Mountain Waldorf School in Boulder, Colorado for over twenty years. He consults for a variety of schools in the USA and internationally, and serves on the faculty at the Centre for Anthroposophy in Wilton, New Hampshire, training Waldorf high school maths teachers.
Making Maths Meaningful: 8th Grade Teacher's Edition
ISBN 9781938210082
Regular price $38.00by Jamie York
This Teacher’s Edition of the workbook contains a year’s worth of practice problems, exercises, and mathematical adventures for 8th grade, including:
The 8th Grade Student’s Workbook
Answer Key
Selected Worked-Out Solutions
“To The Teacher” – a section offering advice for teaching 8th grade math
View sample pages from this book in PDF Format.
You should also purchase A Source Book for Teaching Middle School Math
(by Jamie York). This is an essential resource for teachers using our workbooks.
Softcover, 103 pages.
8.5 x 11 inches.
Printed in the United States.
About the Author
Jamie York is a Steiner-Waldorf maths teacher and consultant, and creator of the Making Maths Meaningful programme. Born in Maine, he has taught maths at Shining Mountain Waldorf School in Boulder, Colorado for over twenty years. He consults for a variety of schools in the USA and internationally, and serves on the faculty at the Centre for Anthroposophy in Wilton, New Hampshire, training Waldorf high school maths teachers.
The Probability of Everything
ISBN 9780063256552
Regular price $24.99 Sale price $23.50by Sarah Everett
Publishers Weekly Best Book
Governor General’s Literary Award
School Library Journal Best Book
Texas Lone Star Reading List
Michigan Association of State Librarians List
About the Book
A heart-wrenching middle grade debut about Kemi, an aspiring scientist who loves statistics and facts, as she navigates grief and loss at a moment when life as she knows it changes forever.
Eleven-year-old Kemi Carter loves scientific facts, specifically probability. It's how she understands the world and her place in it. Kemi knows her odds of being born were 1 in 5.5 trillion, and that the odds of her having the best family ever were even lower. Yet somehow, Kemi lucked out.
But everything Kemi thought she knew changes when she sees an asteroid hover in the sky, casting a purple haze over her world. Amplus-68 has an 84.7% chance of colliding with earth in four days, and with that collision, Kemi's life as she knows it will end.
But over the course of the four days, even facts don't feel true to Kemi anymore. The new town she moved to that was supposed to be “better for her family" isn't very welcoming. And Amplus-68 is taking over her life, but others are still going to school and eating at their favorite diner like nothing has changed. Is Kemi the only one who feels like the world is ending?
With the days numbered, Kemi decides to put together a time capsule that will capture her family's truth: how creative her mother is, how inquisitive her little sister can be, and how much Kemi's whole world revolves around her father. But no time capsule can change the truth behind all of it, that Kemi must face the most inevitable and hardest part of life: saying goodbye.
Hardcover, 336 pages.
Harper Collins.
Critical Praise
“Kemi’s astute voice resonates with a deep love and loyalty for her family, rendering her insistence in honoring them and subsequent narrative reveals as heartrending, hopeful, and palpably felt." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“This realistically drawn, gut-wrenching novel will stick with readers long after they’ve finished reading. A powerful exploration of grief.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“Thought-provoking and utterly unique, this is an impactful book that deserves a place in all middle grade classrooms and libraries.” — School Library Journal (starred review)
“One of the best books I have read this year (maybe ever).” — Colby Sharp, Nerdy Book Club
"My heart hurt as I raced through the last chapters of this unique book that shines a light on family, friends, grief and love." — Lisa Yee, author of Maizy Chen's Last Chance
“An empathetic, unflinching portrayal of childhood bereavement, this gut-punch of a story brings familiar themes from Everett’s YA works to a younger readership." — Booklist
"Sarah Everett writes with captivating grace, even as she navigates difficult topics and probabilities. This book is a love letter to big-hearted, curious-minded kids everywhere. An instant classic.” — Christine Day, award winning author of I Can Make This Promise
Hardcover, 336 pages.
Clarion Books.
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Made in the United States.
String, Straight Edge, and Shadow: the Story of Geometry
ISBN 9781938210099
Regular price $31.00by Julia E. Diggins; illustrated by Corydon Bell
This delightfully illustrated, classic 6th Grade reader recreates the atmosphere of ancient times when men, using three simple tools — the string, the straightedge, and the shadow, discovered the basic principles and constructions of elementary geometry more than two thousand years ago.
View sample pages from this book in PDF Format.
6″ x 9″, 155 pages, softcover.
This engrossing book reveals these first discoveries about elementary geometry related to the early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Greece. The fabric of the story is woven out of archeological and historical records and legends about the major men of mathematics. By reconstructing the events as they might have happened, the author enables an attentive reader to easily follow the pattern of reasoning that leads to an ingenious proof of the Pythagorean theorem, an appreciation of the significance of the Golden Mean in art and architecture, and the construction of the five regular solids.
Whether you are learning geometry for the first time, teaching it to your students, or parents helping your children through their first geometry course, this is a must read for everyone! You will be fascinated with the graphic illustrations and written description of how the knowledge and wisdom of so many cultures helped shape our civilization today.
Julia E. Diggins, the author of String, Straightedge, and Shadow, taught mathematics for many years in Washington, DC and completed her undergraduate work in mathematics at Trinity College in Washington. She then attended the Catholic University of America where she received an MA in psychology. While teaching mathematics in junior high school, she was awarded grants by the National Science Foundation to attend courses at Rutgers University, Boston College, and the University of Maryland where she worked with members of the Maryland University Mathematics Project on the preparation of a new curriculum. Subsequently, she began to devote herself entirely to teaching “modern” mathematics for elementary school teachers at the University of Maryland. Julia Diggins died in 1987.
A Customer’s Review: Text and Illustrations bring ancient geometry alive!
I’ve been reading several books on the history of mathematics lately. This one is the best! It makes concepts so clear by the marriage of text and illustrations. For example, I’ve read about Thales solving how high the Great Pyramid of Cheops was in two other books. This book used four diagrams and several pages of text to clearly explain how Thales answered his own question. Author Julia Diggins goes into depth on geometry but on a level children can understand.
Proceed slowly, letting your children try to solve a problem before reading about its solution. For example, pose the problem of drawing a perfect circle using a string. Once they have solved the problem or given up, read that part of the book. Then go to the beach or a park and use a volleyball pole and a rope to draw circles in the sand with your feet.
Then set them to figuring out how to divide a circle into six equal parts using the string. After they solve or give up, read that part of “String, Straightedge, & Shadow.” Let them follow the instructions and illustrations in chapter six to reproduce the results.
It Ain't So Awful, Falafel
ISBN 9781328740960
Regular price $12.50by Firoozeh Dumas
Zomorod (Cindy) Yousefzadeh is the new kid on the block...for the fourth time.
California’s Newport Beach is her family’s latest perch, and she’s determined to shuck her brainy loner persona and start afresh with a new Brady Bunch name—Cindy.
It’s the late 1970s, and fitting in becomes more difficult as Iran makes U.S. headlines with protests, revolution, and finally the taking of American hostages. Even puka shell necklaces, pool parties, and flying fish can't distract Cindy from the anti-Iran sentiments that creep way too close to home.
A poignant yet lighthearted middle grade debut from the author of the bestselling Funny in Farsi.
Softcover, 384 pages.
Clarion Books
Printed in the United States.
Critical Praise
"This book is a sheer delight—rambunctious and rich. . . . Firoozeh Dumas writes with the perfect light touch that makes us wonder once again: Who is running the big world and why not this person, please?" — Naomi Shihab Nye, novelist and poet
"[A]n honest, witty, and moving portrayal of what it means to be an Iranian immigrant in the late 1970s, during the Iran hostage crisis. — Scholastic Teacher Magazine
- California Library Association’s John and Patricia Beatty Award Winner
- Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award (Grades 6–8)
- New York Historical Society’s New Americans Book Prize Winner
- Middle East Book Award for Youth Literature, Honorable Mention
- Booklist 50 Best Middle Grade Novels of the 21st Century
- Kirkus Reviews Best Books
- Bank Street Children’s Best Books of the Year
- Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies (NCSS/CBC)
Feelings by Aliki
ISBN 9780688065188
Regular price $12.50This classic picture book from beloved author-illustrator Aliki is a great way to explore feelings with younger kids, whether at home or in the classroom. Happy, sad, shy, excited—how do you feel? No matter the emotion, Feelings explores it—and helps children understand and express their own feelings.
Best-selling author Aliki uses a child-friendly cartoon style to build empathy and awareness in young readers—and to help them find appropriate ways to handle their feelings. Short, funny comics show how children might feel in different situations—at a birthday party, when a beloved pet dies, on the first day of school, and more.
A timeless classic ideal for sharing.
Softcover, 32 pages.
Published by Greenwillow Books, a division of Harper Collins.
Printed in the United States.
Praise:
"Children often have difficulty articulating emotions. That fact is the underpinning for Aliki's catalog of feelings, be they happy, sad, or somewhere in between." —Booklist
"A delightful book." —New York Times Book Review
Everything Beautiful is Not Ruined
ISBN 9780143198215
Regular price $13.99by Danielle Younge-Ullman
Like Wild for teens! In the tradition of Sara Zarr and A. S. King, a girl must survive an extreme wilderness experience to prove to her mother that she has the strength to pursue her dreams.
When she was a little girl, Ingrid’s entire world was her mother: Margot-Sophia, the brilliant and sophisticated opera star. So when Margot-Sophia loses her singing voice, Ingrid loses everything. The two of them move to a small, normal house in a normal town, where Ingrid tries to convince her mother that there must still be something worth living for. It’s in this small, normal life that Ingrid discovers her own passion for the theater arts. But Margot-Sophia refuses to support her daughter’s dreams. They strike a deal: if Ingrid makes it through a summer of an extreme wilderness experience, then she can have her chance to pursue life as a performer. Over the course of this summer, Ingrid is stripped of every dignity and freedom. But she also comes to terms with her inner demons — and finally confronts the secret tragedy that defines her.
Recommended for readers 14 years and up.
Softcover, 368 pages.
Penguin Random House Canada.
Praise:
A CBC Books Best Canadian Young Adult and Children’s Books (2017)
One of Bank Street’s Best Children’s Books of The Year (2017)
PRAISE FOR Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined:
“[An] emotionally resonant, fabulously crafted novel . . . You don’t have to be 17 to empathize with Ingrid; her struggles are universal, even if her specific circumstances are not.” —Starred Review, Quill & Quire
“Younge-Ullman’s subtle approach to narrative pacing allows readers to accompany Ingrid on her journey to fully confront and accept her past as she discovers her own true voice.” –Kirkus Reviews
“[A] compelling tale of loss and self-discovery.” —School Library Journal
“Part outdoor adventure tale, part school story, part family drama, this is a story that will engage teens on multiple levels.” —VOYA
“[An] honest examination of the messy pain inherent in breaking away from a parent.” —The Globe and Mail
Making Maths Meaningful: 9th Grade Teacher's Edition
ISBN 9781938210167
Regular price $51.00A full year of Algebra
by Andrew Starzynski and Jamie York
This Teacher’s Edition of the workbook contains a year’s worth of practice problems, exercises, and mathematical adventures for 9th grade, including:
9th Grade Student Workbook
Answer Key (with worked-out solutions to selected problems)
Teacher’s Introduction
Unit-by-unit Commentary
View sample pages from this book in PDF Format.
You should also purchase A Source Book for Teaching Middle School Math
(by Jamie York). This is an essential resource for teachers using our workbooks.
Softcover, 194 pages.
7 x 9 inches.
Printed in the United States.
The units covered in this workbook are:
- Pre-Algebra
- Algebra Basics
- Exponents and Polynomials
- Factoring
- Word Problems
- Midyear Review (incl. eighth grade material)
- Fractions & Square Roots
- The Quadratic Formula
- Logarithms, Part I
- Possibility & Probability, Part I
- Cartesian Geometry, Part I
About the Author
Jamie York is a Steiner-Waldorf maths teacher and consultant, and creator of the Making Maths Meaningful programme. Born in Maine, he has taught maths at Shining Mountain Waldorf School in Boulder, Colorado for over twenty years. He consults for a variety of schools in the USA and internationally, and serves on the faculty at the Centre for Anthroposophy in Wilton, New Hampshire, training Waldorf high school maths teachers.
Making Maths Meaningful: 9th Grade Student Workbook
ISBN 9781938210105
Regular price $31.00A full year of Algebra
by Andrew Starzynski and Jamie York
This student workbook contains a year’s worth of practice problems, exercises, and mathematical adventures for 9th grade.
View sample pages from this book in PDF Format.
This student workbook only has the problem sets – no Answer Key.
Also, you may wish to consider one of these resources for 9th Grade:
-
The Answer Key – some teachers may wish to give this to the students.
(which includes worked-out Solutions to Selected Problems) - The Teacher’s Edition – which includes a Teacher’s Commentary and the Answer Key
-
A Source Book for Teaching High School Math – which goes far beyond the workbook,
and is a source of inspiration for almost every lesson imaginable. - Fun with Puzzles, Games, and More! – which has great puzzles and games for grades 4-12.
Softcover, 95 pages.
6 x 9".
Printed in the United States.
The units covered in this workbook are:
- Pre-Algebra
- Algebra Basics
- Exponents and Polynomials
- Factoring
- Word Problems
- Midyear Review (incl. eighth grade material)
- Fractions & Square Roots
- The Quadratic Formula
- Logarithms, Part I
- Possibility & Probability, Part I
- Cartesian Geometry, Part I
About the Author
Jamie York is a Steiner-Waldorf maths teacher and consultant, and creator of the Making Maths Meaningful programme. Born in Maine, he has taught maths at Shining Mountain Waldorf School in Boulder, Colorado for over twenty years. He consults for a variety of schools in the USA and internationally, and serves on the faculty at the Centre for Anthroposophy in Wilton, New Hampshire, training Waldorf high school maths teachers.
Making Maths Meaningful: 10th Grade Teacher's Edition
ISBN 9781938210174
Regular price $55.00Geometry and some Algebra II
by Andrew Starzynski and Jamie York
This Teacher’s Edition of the workbook contains a year’s worth of practice problems, exercises, and mathematical adventures for 10th grade, including:
10th Grade Student Workbook
Answer Key (with worked-out solutions to selected problems)
Teacher’s Introduction
Unit-by-unit Commentary
View sample pages from this book in PDF Format.
You should also purchase A Source Book for Teaching High School Math
(by Jamie York). This is an essential resource for teachers using our workbooks.
Softcover, 228 pages.
7 x 9 inches.
Printed in the United States.
About the Author
Jamie York is a Steiner-Waldorf maths teacher and consultant, and creator of the Making Maths Meaningful programme. Born in Maine, he has taught maths at Shining Mountain Waldorf School in Boulder, Colorado for over twenty years. He consults for a variety of schools in the USA and internationally, and serves on the faculty at the Centre for Anthroposophy in Wilton, New Hampshire, training Waldorf high school maths teachers.
Making Maths Meaningful: 10th Grade Student Edition
ISBN 9781938210129
Regular price $31.00Geometry and some Algebra II
by Andrew Starzynski and Jamie York
20% Quantity Discounts for purchasing 10+ workbooks.
This student workbook contains a year’s worth of practice problems, exercises, and mathematical adventures for 10th grade.
View sample pages from this book in PDF Format.
This student workbook only has the problem sets – no Answer Key.
Also, you may wish to consider one of these resources for 10th Grade:
-
The Answer Key – some teachers may wish to give this to the students.
(which includes worked-out Solutions to Selected Problems) - The Teacher’s Edition – which includes a Teacher’s Commentary and the Answer Key
-
A Source Book for Teaching High School Math – which goes far beyond the workbook,
and is a source of inspiration for almost every lesson imaginable. - Fun with Puzzles, Games, and More! – which has great puzzles and games for grades 4-12.
Softcover, 119 pages.
6 x 9 inches.
Printed in the United States.
About the Author
Jamie York is a Steiner-Waldorf maths teacher and consultant, and creator of the Making Maths Meaningful programme. Born in Maine, he has taught maths at Shining Mountain Waldorf School in Boulder, Colorado for over twenty years. He consults for a variety of schools in the USA and internationally, and serves on the faculty at the Centre for Anthroposophy in Wilton, New Hampshire, training Waldorf high school maths teachers.
Making Maths Meaningful: 11th & 12th Grade Student Edition Workbook
ISBN 9781938210143
Regular price $32.00Algebra II, Precalculus, Calculus, Statistics
by Andrew Starzynski and Jamie York
This student workbook contains a year’s worth of practice problems, exercises, and mathematical adventures for 11th and 12th grade.
View sample pages from this book in PDF Format.
This student workbook only has the problem sets – no Answer Key.
Also, you may wish to consider one of these resources for 11th and 12th Grade:
-
-
The Answer Key – some teachers may wish to give this to the students.
(which includes worked-out Solutions to Selected Problems) - The Teacher’s Edition – which includes a Teacher’s Commentary and the Answer Key
-
A Source Book for Teaching High School Math – which goes far beyond the workbook,
and is a source of inspiration for almost every lesson imaginable. - Fun with Puzzles, Games, and More! – which has great puzzles and games for grades 4-12.
-
The Answer Key – some teachers may wish to give this to the students.
Softcover, 134 pages.
6 x 9 inches.
Printed in the United States.
About the Author
Jamie York is a Steiner-Waldorf maths teacher and consultant, and creator of the Making Maths Meaningful programme. Born in Maine, he has taught maths at Shining Mountain Waldorf School in Boulder, Colorado for over twenty years. He consults for a variety of schools in the USA and internationally, and serves on the faculty at the Centre for Anthroposophy in Wilton, New Hampshire, training Waldorf high school maths teachers.
Making Maths Meaningful: A Sourcebook for Teaching High School Math
ISBN 9781938210198
Regular price $69.00By Jamie York
Did you ever wish you had a resource book with all the most awe-inspiring math you could bring into the classroom…all the stuff that standard high school math textbooks never have time for?
Our Source Book for Teaching High School Math is Jamieʼs best work yet! It took Jamie York thirty years to develop his Waldorf high school math curriculum. As well as standard math topics, this book is packed with material to inspire you and your students beyond the current mainstream norm.
Our tried and tested Waldorf high school math curriculum prepares students not just for college, but also for life!
This Source Book for High School Math includes:
- A math curriculum guideline for grades 9-12.
- An essential resource for use with our grades 9-12 workbooks.
- A generous mix of standard topics and little-known fascinating math gems.
- Ideas for all of the Waldorf math “main lessons” in grades 9-12.
- Includes an 11-page Introduction for the Teacher.
- Includes an 5-page Grade-by-Grade Overview.
View sample pages from this book in PDF Format.
Softcover, 235 pages.
8.5 x 11 inches.
Printed in the United States.
About the Author
Jamie York is a Steiner-Waldorf maths teacher and consultant, and creator of the Making Maths Meaningful programme. Born in Maine, he has taught maths at Shining Mountain Waldorf School in Boulder, Colorado for over twenty years. He consults for a variety of schools in the USA and internationally, and serves on the faculty at the Centre for Anthroposophy in Wilton, New Hampshire, training Waldorf high school maths teachers.
Making Maths Meaningful: 11th & 12th Grade Teacher's Edition
ISBN 9781938210181
Regular price $56.00Algebra II, Precalculus, Calculus, Statistics
by Andrew Starzynski and Jamie York
This student workbook contains a year’s worth of practice problems, exercises, and mathematical adventures for 11th and 12th grade.
View sample pages from this book in PDF Format.
This student workbook only has the problem sets – no Answer Key.
Also, you may wish to consider one of these resources for 11th and 12th Grade:
-
-
The Answer Key – some teachers may wish to give this to the students.
(which includes worked-out Solutions to Selected Problems) - The Teacher’s Edition – which includes a Teacher’s Commentary and the Answer Key
-
A Source Book for Teaching High School Math – which goes far beyond the workbook,
and is a source of inspiration for almost every lesson imaginable. - Fun with Puzzles, Games, and More! – which has great puzzles and games for grades 4-12.
-
The Answer Key – some teachers may wish to give this to the students.
Softcover, 134 pages.
6 x 9 inches.
Printed in the United States.
About the Author
Jamie York is a Steiner-Waldorf maths teacher and consultant, and creator of the Making Maths Meaningful programme. Born in Maine, he has taught maths at Shining Mountain Waldorf School in Boulder, Colorado for over twenty years. He consults for a variety of schools in the USA and internationally, and serves on the faculty at the Centre for Anthroposophy in Wilton, New Hampshire, training Waldorf high school maths teachers.
Loré Pemberton 2025 calendar (pre-order)
LP 2025 calendar
Regular price $75.00The Year of Milk and Honey is a collection of paintings that were inspired by moments of joy, contentment, and celebration.
10 x 13 inches hanging wall calendar, printed in the USA on 100# watercolour texture cover with smooth heavy matte interior pages.
Drilling is omitted so images are unmarked.
Titles included are: Winter Song, Quill and Parchment, First of the Lambs, Nettle Tea, Bluebird, Welcoming in Summer, Midsummer's Eve, Seabird, September's Flush, Early Risers, The Shepherd's Hut, Christmas at Orchard House
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