Making Awful Graphs Sometimes we can learn a lot by doing something the wrong way. Here are six ways your students can purposefully design awful, misleading graphs.
Olympic Medal Math Project In the paper, I read about Norway's dominance of the Winter Olympics, despite being a tiny country. I love this juxtaposition of unexpected data! Let's turn it into a math project. Here are some questions I thought of…
Math Game: The Game of 100 The Game of 100 is a simple game requiring no supplies, yet it opens up a rich world of exploring strategy and a little mental math.
Math Project: Disneyland Parking Structure Let's develop a math project to challenge students who have demonstrated a mastery of multiplication and are ready to explore its applications. We'll count the parking spaces in the Disneyland parking structure!
Make A *Better* Calendar! The calendar is a source of fantastic factoring problems with many social studies add-ons. Why 12 months? Why 30 (or 31 or 28) days? Why are weeks 7 days long? Why don't they fit into the months (or the year!)? Why did we do this to ourselves!?
Healthy Donuts!? Framing a Math Project with a Big Idea Instead of jumping straight to calculations, what if we framed this math concept with a big idea?
Encourage Curiosity With Calculators It's easy to fall in love with chasing the newest technology to use in the classroom. But sometimes, the perfect tool is a plain old calculator. We'll be using this tool to develop curiosity about math.
When A Math Puzzle Isn’t Very Puzzling It looks like a fun puzzle. But it's actually just a low-level worksheet in disguise!
Could we fit 1,000 kids on the playground? 10,000? If your students can find the area of a square then, armed with Google Earth, they can also figure out how many students you could pack into your school's playground.
