Math Project: Box Office Totals As a teenager, I loved monitoring the weekend's box office results. This kind of data is exciting, oozing with built in conflict. It sets up questions that require math to answer.
A Math Question That Moves Around on Bloom’s I was aiming for engagement rather than higher-level thinking.
Mathematical Curiosities Sometimes you encounter that math student who is simply interested in numbers. Here are some famous (and not so famous) sets of numbers that have curious properties.
Fizz Buzz – A Divisibility Game Here's a quick to learn but difficult to master math game. Start with some basic divisibility rules, but then feel free to extend it to any math topic.
Big Gifts, Small Prices What if you want to buy a big gift that's cheap for its size? By calculating the volume of the object, we can find how much each cubic inch costs. Measured by price per volume, Thomas is 250 times more expensive than a big outdoor slide!
To Show Or Not To Show Work In Math We must be careful not to admonish our intuitive learners for being intuitive. As teachers of the gifted, we must set up learning environments that are best for our students. And if they're doing it all in their heads (and getting it right!), then the environment needs to change.
Differentiate Math with Inductive Learning With inductive learning, we still define terms, explain rules, and practice, but the order is different. We’re harnessing gifted students’ natural abilities to enhance our lessons.
Strategy Game: Sprouts With Sprouts, students draw a small set of dots and then connect those dots with lines. The first person who can’t make a connection loses.
Goldbach’s Conjecture Our look at math conjectures continues with Goldbach's Conjecture, which states that all even integers greater than 2 can be written as the sum of two primes. Is this true for all cases? Another authentic, unsolved question.
