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…
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.
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.
Fill ‘er up with Clam Chowder! Sure gasoline seems expensive. Until you try to fill your car up with other liquids!
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!?
Thinking Like Equivalent Fractions Go across disciplines by asking students to write a story about fraction equivalence.
The Surprises Within a Triangle’s Angles Discovering what is interesting and unexpected about a triangle's angles. What twists have I unintentionally spoiled for my students over the years?
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!
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.
