"In Junk drawer geometry, educator Bobby Mercer provides readers with 50 creative geometry project ideas for engaged learning. Each activity includes a materials list and detailed, step-by-step, instructions with illustrations."--

Includes over 200 projects, puzzles, games, and designs that enable young math wizards to have fun through doing and performing rather than studying and pondering

Includes an assortment of activities and illustrations to help explain the concept of division

Explores the different ways fractions of a whole can be expressed--as fractions, decimals, percentages, and ratios

Includes simple activities, games, and puzzles meant to help young children learn math

Loosely based on Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing," twelve-year-olds Trish and Ben should be automatic friends because they both play baseball on a Little League team in Comity, Massachusetts, and they both love solving math puzzles, but obstacles stand in their way

Join a group of students on a field trip to the zoo where they learn how to tally numbers and create graphs

Over 100 kid-friendly math problems on topics from jalapeños and submarines to roller coasters and flamingos, designed to make math a fun part of kids' everyday lives.