Mindset Mathematics: Visualizing and Investigating Big Ideas, Grade 6

A playful way to see math concepts in the real world. Wish we had started here years ago.

I couldn’t love Jo Boaler/you cube more! The visual math approach and creative side of math have helped my kids to live math. This book helps bring more fun with math to our family. My kids often tell me: I don’t like the boring math they teach in school - let’s do the fun math that I really can understand and we find in life around us. This approach really helps them understand the why behind how math works.

I purchased this book for a masters class for geometry. Math is not my strongest subject but this book was really good. I actually enjoyed the introduction and the chapter I was assigned. I highly recommend it for Geometry teachers grades 8th or 9th.

Some of the pages were cut wrong but the pages are readable. Love this author.

I teach 7th grade pre algebra and this book helped build background knowledge that students are sorely lacking. Boaler is brilliant!

This book has some very clever activities. We are testing some of the ideas for Algebra now. Ms. Boaler says that almost all students will respond to the activities and that is what we are hoping.

Totally worth the time and price. If you are a Jo Boaler fan, this book is a great supplement to the training.

Was hoping it would be more helpful.

Great ideas and forward pedogody as always from the authors

Excellent teaching resource gets pupils thinking outside the box. Highly recommended

Awesome rich tasks!

I enjoy Jo's theory and reasoning provided for lessons. Book is split up into different "big ideas", similar to Marian Small, however carries a different tone. Activities and lesson sequences are all decent (haven't used them all). All are multi-strand and hit on the different learning styles experienced in a classroom. Only thing that has been brought up between myself and some other teachers is thsr the different grades are very similar. It wouldn't be beneficial for me to purchase the 4 or the 5 as many of the tasks are the same.

I have mixed feelings about this book. The instructions are detailed and creative and I appreciate the author’s methods. My only gripe is this is not a complete workbook for grade 6. It only focuses on the Rates and Proportions section and some Polygons. The book leaves out rest of the course. You need to buy her other books which teaches 2-3 sections each time. The books should be titled as book 1, book 2 etc. instead of grade 1, grade 2 etc.