Description: This practical book leads the way in secondary mathematics instruction with unique enrichment units, technology updates, and a highly readable style. It provides step-by step techniques on preparing lessons and tests, motivating students, designing assignments, and organizing the classroom. Also included are “ hands-on” activities enrichment units, teaching strategies, and pre- and post-tests that are cross-referenced to methods presented earlier in the text. Explores the use of technology, with special emphasis on the application and uses of the Geometer's Sketchpad software program. Also updates the graphics calculator's application in the classroom and includes extensive references to the World Wide Web. Provides a more detailed discussion of problem-solving strategies, in a particularly strong chapter on problem solving, which reflects the mandate that problem solving, be one of the prime concerns for mathematics instruction today.

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