Awesome Math: Teaching Mathematics with Problem Based Learning

by Titu Andreescu, Kathy Cordeiro, Alina Andreescu

Help your students to think critically and creatively through team-based problem solving instead of focusing on testing and outcomes.   Professionals throughout the education system are recognizing that standardized testing is holding students back. Schools tend to view children as outcomes rather than as individuals who require guidance on thinking critically and creatively. Awesome Math focuses on team-based problem solving to teach discrete mathematics, a subject essential for success in the STEM careers of the future. Built on the increasingly popular growth mindset, this timely book emphasizes a problem-solving approach for developing the skills necessary to think critically, creatively, and collaboratively. In its current form, math education is a series of straightforward problems with easily-obtained answers. Problem solving, however, involves multiple creative approaches to solving meaningful and interesting problems. The authors, co-founders of the multi-layered educational organization AwesomeMath, have developed an innovative approach to teaching mathematics that will enable educators Awesome Teaching Mathematics with Problem Based Learning is a must-have resource for general education teachers and math specialists in grades 6 to 12, and resource specialists, special education teachers, elementary educators, and other primary education professionals.

288 pages, Paperback

Published November 22, 2019

About the author

Titu Andreescu is an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is also firmly involved in mathematics contests and Olympiads, being the Director of AMC (as appointed by the Mathematical Association of America), Director of MOP, Head Coach of the USA IMO Team and Chairman of the USAMO. He has also authored a large number of books on the topic of problem solving and Olympiad-style mathematics.

Reviews

[Tnb · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some typos. Explanations for some of the problems were skipping critical steps, not something an experienced math coach cannot remedy, but the general practical math teacher may not be able to. Most of the example problems are available under the same general topics, in other sources. In other words, I did not find the problems particularly innovative and inspirational, but I appreciated the first section of the book which looks on coaching and teaching more philosophically.