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Math Masterpieces
Many math concepts can be found in art: patterns, symmetry, shapes, spatial relations. Art can also be used to illustrate math concepts. In this activity, students develop their visual/spatial intell1
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Many math concepts can be found in art: patterns, symmetry, shapes, spatial relations. Art can also be used to illustrate math concepts. In this activity, students develop their visual/spatial intelligence as they create math art to represent the math concept.
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Compare and Contrast
Comparing and contrasting is one of the most fundamental thinking skills. When students compare and contrast in math, they carefully examine the relation of two math topics. In this activity, student1
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Comparing and contrasting is one of the most fundamental thinking skills. When students compare and contrast in math, they carefully examine the relation of two math topics. In this activity, students analyze two math topics as they compare and contrast them with regard to specific characteristics. Students use this exercise as the basis for a compare and contrast paper.
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Math Book Report
The library is loaded with math books. There are math text books, books on teaching math, math literature books and more. Have students explore the rich world of mathematical writing. In this activit1
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The library is loaded with math books. There are math text books, books on teaching math, math literature books and more. Have students explore the rich world of mathematical writing. In this activity, students read or review a math book, write a book report, then share their findings with teammates.
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Real-Life Applications
“Why do I need to learn this? Will I ever use it in real life?” In this activity, teams create a word web of ideas illustrating the real-life applications of the math content. Students then write abo1
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“Why do I need to learn this? Will I ever use it in real life?” In this activity, teams create a word web of ideas illustrating the real-life applications of the math content. Students then write about three real-life applications and share their writing with teammates.
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The Sum of Its Parts
Acrostic poems use every letter of the topic word as the beginning letter for a sentence or phrase about the topic. In this activity, students create acrostic poems on a math topic and share their po1
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Acrostic poems use every letter of the topic word as the beginning letter for a sentence or phrase about the topic. In this activity, students create acrostic poems on a math topic and share their poems with the class.
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The World Without Math
A good way to learn to appreciate something we have is to speculate about how life would be if we didn’t have it. What would the world be like without math? Without calculators? Without algebra? In t1
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A good way to learn to appreciate something we have is to speculate about how life would be if we didn’t have it. What would the world be like without math? Without calculators? Without algebra? In this activity, pairs work together to list how the world would be different, then students write their own papers and share them with teammates. This activity helps students see the relevance of various mathematical inventions and concepts, and gives them cognitive practice in cause and effect.
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Evaluate It!
Do you want to know what students find easy, difficult, memorable, boring, effective, ineffective, fun, drudgery? Here’s how to find out. In this activity, students make a personal connection with th1
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Do you want to know what students find easy, difficult, memorable, boring, effective, ineffective, fun, drudgery? Here’s how to find out. In this activity, students make a personal connection with the content as they write about what they like and dislike.
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The Rhythm of Math
Music, song and poetry are rhythmic. Rhythms can be thought of as repeated patterns. Much of math involves rhythmic patterns too. In this activity, students work to create a song or poem about a math1
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Music, song and poetry are rhythmic. Rhythms can be thought of as repeated patterns. Much of math involves rhythmic patterns too. In this activity, students work to create a song or poem about a math topic, then present it to another pair or to the class.
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Personalize Your Math
Mathematics has its own language. With the unfamiliar jargon it can be foreign to students. Make the language of math more personally relevant for your students. In this activity, students write pers1
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Mathematics has its own language. With the unfamiliar jargon it can be foreign to students. Make the language of math more personally relevant for your students. In this activity, students write personally relevant sentences with math vocabulary words. Students share their sentences with teammates.
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Math Jeopardy!
Jeopardy is a quiz show in which the answer is presented and contestants try to provide the correct question. Use this fun variation to play Jeopardy in teams. In this activity, teams create question1
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Jeopardy is a quiz show in which the answer is presented and contestants try to provide the correct question. Use this fun variation to play Jeopardy in teams. In this activity, teams create questions and answers about the topic. They send the answers to another team to provide the questions.