Thank you, Dr. Bill & Dr. Vasha Rosenblum!

Dr. Vasha Rosenblum has been providing math games and activities to children in the elementary grades at family math nights
and education conferences since the early 1990’s.  Dr. Rosenblum often utilizes the help of her husband, Dr. Bill Rosenblum who
serves as a physics professor at Samford University.  When not attending family math nights or professional conferences,
Dr. Vasha Rosenblum serves as the coordinator of children’s educational programs at Aldridge Botanical Gardens.  And though
Dr. Bill Rosenblum’s specialty is quantum physics and optics, he is also a skilled builder and wood worker.

Order forms for Dr. Rosenblum’s games can be found at http://www.mathgamesk-5.com/
Information about the summer program can be found at http://www.aldridgegardens.com/

To access the student math book click on the web address below.

 https://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com/snpapp/login/login.jsp

MATH

Mathematics is the academic discipline, and its supporting body of knowledge, that involves the study of such concepts as quantity, structure, space and change. The mathematician Benjamin Peirce called it "the science that draws necessary conclusions".[2]

Other practitioners of mathematics maintain that mathematics is the science of pattern, and that mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere.[3][4] Mathematicians explore such concepts, aiming to formulate new conjectures and establish their truth by rigorous deduction from appropriately chosen axioms and definitions.[5]

Through the use of abstraction and logical reasoning, mathematics evolved from counting, calculation, measurement, and the systematic study of the shapes and motions of physical objects. Knowledge and use of basic mathematics have always been an inherent and integral part of individual and group life. Refinements of the basic ideas are visible in mathematical texts originating in the ancient Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Indian, Chinese, Greek and Islamic worlds. Rigorous arguments first appeared in Greek mathematics, most notably in Euclid's Elements. The development continued in fitful bursts until the Renaissance period of the 16th century, when mathematical innovations interacted with new scientific discoveries, leading to an acceleration in research that continues to the present day.[6]

Today, mathematics is used throughout the world as an essential tool in many fields, including natural science, engineering, medicine, and the social sciences such as economics and psychology. Applied mathematics, the branch of mathematics concerned with application of mathematical knowledge to other fields, inspires and makes use of new mathematical discoveries and sometimes leads to the development of entirely new disciplines. Mathematicians also engage in pure mathematics, or mathematics for its own sake, without having any application in mind, although practical applications for what began as pure mathematics are often discovered later.[7]

Click on web address below to view grade-level course of study:

http://alex.state.al.us/browseStand.php