Posted by Joe Kruzich on
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The resource that I chose to look at first was TeachingBooks.net.  I searched for Math and narrowed my search to grade levels 7-12.  I looked through many of the books listed and finally decided to dig in to "Countdown: Six kids vie for glory at the world's toughest Math Competition."  My first thought was that it would be very difficult for me to have kids read a book in a math class because they do so much of that already in other courses, but the more I thought about it I realized that most of the time my kids really don't understand how things connect outside of the classroom.  This has always been a struggle for me.  I have many students come back after they graduate and tell me how they used certain things that they learned in my class, and they never really appreciated it until then.  That’s great, but I want them to appreciate it before they leave the high school.  I can tell them about it and show them some examples, but until they read or discover it for themselves, it will never be a reality in their minds.  I feel like these resources can help show the students the important impact that our subjects can have on the world on both small and large scales.  I love the lesson plans that come with each book on this resource and it all should be very useful.