The (great!) Newton's Window Mathematics Treasure Hunt |
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 Problem: Students don't always like math. Problem: Studients don't know math - sure they might know how to multiply, how to factor a polynomial, how to make a scatterplot, but they don't know its history, its stories, its connections, its challenges, its uses, ...its intrigue. Problem: They don't know where to go to find out more. Parents often don't know either. And teachers don't always have the time. Solution: The (great!) Newton's Window It is no secret that we love math, here at Newton's Window. It is no secret that Suzanne is about as crazy about mathematics as a person can be. The picture of her hero - Sir Isaac, as he's called around here - is on four walls of her house. She sends math problems to friends as birthday gifts! On cold nights she takes us outside to look at the stars and tells us the story of Mary Fairfax Sommerville, the British woman who was not allowed to study mathematics as a girl, and later went on to explain great mathematics to the continent of Europe, and whose book led John Couch Adams to discover the planet Neptune. It is also no secret that very few students today know the great stories from math's history, that few students are able to make connections between all the units we teach them, that few are aware of the precious resources all around them, that could take them into the great "cathedral" of mathematics and help them discover corners of it that especially fit them. It is no secret that few students think of math as anything more than a subject in school with lots of numbers, procedures, and then when they get to algebra, lots of letters and procedures. She wanted to change that. And she remembered something her uncle did for his neices and nephews, when she was young. And she created the (great!) Newton's Window Mathematical Treasure Hunt. She had created a smaller version and included it in the Newton's Window Math Bags. It was wonderfully successful, but it had one problem: it wasn't big enough. It stopped too soon. So she created a bigger and better one. It will be here in November, 2006. And the best thing about it is what is true about all of our products, here at Newton's Window: No batteries required. Just a brain. |
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| Date of arrival to be announced soon. | Come back, or send us an email and we will notify you so you can get the pre-order price. |
| Comes in versions suitable for Elementary, Middle and High School students. | Parents will enjoy any of them! |
| Available in individual units, bulk orders, and classroom sets. | |
"Sometimes the best way to strengthen a student in the curriculum is to go outside of the curriculum." |
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| We want to help you do that. | |
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