stripe Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 I am curious about Russian math books, specifically for the elementary levels, in English. (Soviet is fine too!) Are the UCSMP translations the only available materials in English? (What about other Eastern European countries? Besides the Hungarian-inspired MEP?) I'd love to know more. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snickerdoodle Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 There is also Russian Math 6 by Perpedicular press. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmoira Posted January 3, 2010 Share Posted January 3, 2010 There is also Russian Math 6 by Perpedicular press. This is a thing of beauty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 An advertisement showed up in my e-mail and it may be of use to Russian math topic. http://www.worldscibooks.com/mathematics/7329.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Others have posted the ones with which I'm familiar. So this is a: :lurk5: Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Bay Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Dd is nearly done the one from Perpendicular Press, and it's a great book. Another book that we don't have (yet) is called Mathematical Circles. It's on Amazon and is also sold by the Americal Mathematical Society. The person at AMS who answered some questions I had about a few books said that Mathematical Circles is for clever math students (I may be paraphrasingn here. They had it on a page of books for high school students. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted January 14, 2010 Author Share Posted January 14, 2010 (edited) I found a Power Point presentation where James Milgram (who works with Liping Ma) recommended that more translations of other elementary texts be made besides the UCSMP translations. (I haven't seen those, for that matter.) Thank you all for your contributions to this thread. BTW I bought a copy of Mathematical Circles: Russian Experience (Mathematical World, Vol. 7). It is a nice book of problems. I started working my way through it and then lost my notes -- ugh. It is definitely in the vein of challenging but fun problems. Not a replacement for a curriculum, but fun for a broader concept of math. Edited January 14, 2010 by stripe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Has anyone seen the UCSMP translations of Russian Math 1, 2, or 3? I've been very tempted to order these many times, but have never pulled the trigger. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted January 14, 2010 Author Share Posted January 14, 2010 By the way, for anyone who reads Russian, I just found these: ИНТЕРНЕТ БИБЛИОТЕКА (apparently) an online library of old Russian math texts, via this interesting page on math education by Steffen Lempp at the Univ of Wisconsin-Madison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Storm Bay Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 BTW I bought a copy of Mathematical Circles: Russian Experience (Mathematical World, Vol. 7). It is a nice book of problems. I started working my way through it and then lost my notes -- ugh. It is definitely in the vein of challenging but fun problems. Not a replacement for a curriculum, but fun for a broader concept of math. Thanks for this :). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hathersage Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 Does anyone know what ages the grades levels are for Russia? Is Grade 1 there for example 6-7? I thought I read somewhere that Russian Grade 1 was equivalent to 2nd Grade US, but I can't seem for find it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted January 15, 2010 Author Share Posted January 15, 2010 I think you are correct; on the UCSMP page it says: Textbook Translations Mathematics textbooks used in grades 7-9 in Japan and grade 1-3 (our grades 2-4) in Russia. Russian Grade 1 Mathematics (1980): simple and multi-step problems and word problems with numbers up to 100; measurement and intuitive geometry; equations and inequalities with x. Russian Grade 2 Mathematics (1980): addition and subtraction; multiplication and division; introduction to fractions; time; numbers to 1,000; multi-step word problems; intuitive geometry; equations and inequalities with x. Russian Grade 3 Mathematics (1978): measurement; addition and subtraction of multidigit numbers; speed, time, and distance; area; fractions; multiplication and division by 2- and 3-digit numbers; word problems with variables. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snickerdoodle Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 Has anyone seen the UCSMP translations of Russian Math 1, 2, or 3? Yes. If you search username Ray you will find a google doc linked with some examples. Here is a problem from the 2 book: Make up a word problem based on the following equation: x = 4 x 6 - 24 :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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