<p><b>Help your students to think critically and creatively through team-based problem solving instead of focusing on testing and outcomes.</b><b> </b></p><p>Professionals throughout the education system are recognizing that standardized testing is holding students back. Schools tend to view children as <i>outcomes</i> rather than as <i>individuals</i> who require guidance on thinking critically and creatively. <i>Awesome Math </i>focuses on team-based problem solving to teach discrete mathematics, a subject essential for success in the STEM careers of the future. Built on the increasingly popular growth mindset, this timely book emphasizes a problem-solving approach for developing the skills necessary to think critically, creatively, and collaboratively.</p><p>In its current form, math education is a series of exercises: straightforward problems with easily-obtained answers. Problem solving, however, involves multiple creative approaches to solving meaningful and interesting problems.