MathWonders ClockWise System Book

The ClockWise® System Workbook
  • Have fun mastering fractions, decimals, percents and degrees with this visual model.
  • Teach number sense and conversions.
  • Use the Clockulator to visualize calculations in your head.
  • Improve math skills and overcome math anxiety.
  • Learn mental math techniques to solve math problems.
  • Visualize true proportions.
  • Useful for all ages to develop better number sense.
  • For gifted as well as challenged math students.
  • Ideal for elementary math students - 3rd to 8th grade, and homeschoolers.
The ClockWise® System Workbook: This exciting new workbook explains the ClockWise System for mental math with fractions, decimals, percent and degrees, laying them out in equivalent places on a 12-hour analog clock. The book takes the reader through easy-to-grasp steps, using colors to help the reader associate patterns, and crystal-clear graphics to illustrate each idea. It builds on each preceding idea so that the reader feels the discovery unfold before her eyes. The whimsical snapshots of kids and adults throughout the book invite the reader to join this wonderful community pouring out of the pages.

MathWonders ClockWise System Book

The ClockWise System also features lots of reproducible pages for classroom use, to practice comparing fractions to other fractions, or fractions to decimals, or to percents, as well as practice estimating angles at a glance.

Most math classes teach fractions on pizza, or sometimes on quadrilaterals, while decimals are usually taught as rods of ten, and square grids of 100. The idea that a person could eat a decimal portion of a pizza seems unthinkable. Thus many people think fractions and decimals are entirely separate concepts. The ClockWise System's consistent approach from one chapter to the next makes the connection between these measurements and portions seem natural and instinctive, just like our understanding of the analog clock, which happens to be shaped very much like a pizza.

This book is just as enjoyable for adults or kids to read and to adapt the mental math habits it teaches. The system has been taught to second graders though adults, in many languages, thanks to its universally recognized clock basis.

While it is a workbook, its beautiful, durable laminated cover will protect it for many years, and both front and back covers fold out to reveal a blank clock for visualizing the equivalences on its face, and an astoundingly beautiful "Clockulator®" diagram that pulls the entire book together into one lasting image. To top it all off, the book comes with an 11 X 17 poster of this same Clockulator.

The Clockulator