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Extremely Fun Math Books
When we use the phrase "math books," we think of sentences like "Take out your math books" or "I expect to see you all working in your math books." The phrase conjures up textbooks or workbooks for most of us. That's no… -
St. Patrick's Day Goodies for the Classroom
Carson Dellosa's St. Patrick's Day bulletin board set includes all the familiar images. Jan Brett's St. Patrick's Day goodies: Saint Patrick's Rainbow Coloring Page Hedgie Leprechaun Coloring Page Saint Patrick'… -
The Snow Queen Lesson Plans
The Snow Queen is a lesser-known tale by Hans Christian Andersen. It's a collection of stories, really. The first is about a mirror made by an evil sprite, which shows everything reflected in it at its worst. This mirror… -
Problem Solving: Real Life Math and Unreal Life Math
In Graham Tattersall's enjoyable book, Geekspeak: How Life + Mathematics = Happiness, he explains how to calculate all sorts of things you've probably never wondered about, like the weight of your head, or how many slav… -
Immigration Lesson Plans
Immigration is a topic I like to bring into lesson plans around Thanksgiving. After all, that Pilgrim Thanksgiving was a celebration by immigrants who had survived their first year in their new home. Our stories of that … -
Project Euler
I just have one word for you today: Euler! Actually, it should be two words: Project Euler. Click on that and you'll find a fine selection of math problems that lead the learner through computer programming as well as cl… -
Time Lesson Plans
We looked at lessons on reading analog clocks recently, but there's more to studying time than that. With the change from Daylight Savings Time, this is a perfect time to study time! One interesting way to approach it is… -
Google Earth Lesson Plans for Math
Spent enough time going "Ooooh" at Google Earth?Now use it for math. In the links for yesterday's post you can find tours which take you around a town --choice of Las Vegas and Madrid -- presenting math facts about the l… -
Lesson Plans for The Tortoise and the Hare
"The Tortoise and the Hare" is one of Aesop's fables, also done by Jean de La Fontaine.You can read it, and admire one of Rackham's illustrations for it, here. A shorter and easier version is online here. Here's a bri… -
Singing in the Classroom
Chanthaboune asked for more music lessons. I'm happy to oblige!Do you sing in your classroom? You know you should. Unless you teach high school chemistry (in which case you should still be singing Tom Lehrer's "The Eleme…
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