Estimation 180 helps students build number sense and practice using different units of measurement. Designed by math teacher Andrew Stadel, the website presents students with a different photo each day and asks them to estimate some quantity shown. Each day
I saw this Popsicle stick snowflake craft on Pinterest and immediately fell in love! My preschooler loves Popsicle stick crafts, and he has been itching to get ready for Christmas, so this was a perfect fit for a recent Saturday
As part of our summer plans, we wanted to have some actual academic time amidst all the running through the sprinkler and playing in the pool. I have had my eye on Ron Paul’s home school curriculum for a while,
I am always on the lookout for resources that make math more fun and exciting for kids. Several years ago, a colleague of mine loaned me a copy of Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland to read to
In order to keep them from crawling up the walls in their last week before summer vacation, I’ve given my seventh graders a tessellation project. There are about ten million youtube videos explaining how to do this, so I won’t
In 7th grade math, we’re working on area. Â We’ve gone through all of the basic formulas with careful attention to how they are related to one another — the triangle being half of a rectangle, the trapezoid being a combination
When teaching basic geometry concepts, such as perimeter and area, you will save yourself quite a bit of grief if you start by making clear the difference between units and square units. Our common abbreviations for these, such as cm
Monday I asked my students to determine whether this triangle was equilateral, isosceles, or scalene, and to prove their answer. The hint is in the post title: this is a Pythagorean Theorem activity. Here is the original triangle: If you said
Activity for the big kids today: Without using a ruler, determine whether this triangle is equilateral, isosceles, or scalene. Prove it.
In over our heads with radicals in 8th grade Algebra this week, so we took some time to review the Pythagorean Theorem. Â Geometry is so beautifully concrete. Â In addition to demonstrations you can do with drawings and such, here’s an