NEW Educational Apps!
Check out these three new iOS apps from the creator of the Math SPOT: Place Value Cards The research behind …
Monthly Archives: March 2013
Teaching Ratio and Proportion in the Middle Grades
How often have you seen your students develop mastery of the cross-multiplication algorithm for solving proportions, yet be lost when …
Problem of the Week 3/18/2013
Troy’s new puppy Rocco needed to run around outside, but Troy’s backyard did not have a fence. To keep Rocco …
Happy Pi Day!
Learn more about Archimedes’ method for calculating pi with this interactive activity from NCTM Illuminations. Explore the relationships between a …
Problem of the Week 3/11/2013
An equilateral triangle has the same perimeter as a rectangle whose length is nine less than five times its width. …
Graphing Linear Equations – Full Body Style
Get your students up out of their seats with this activity from the Teaching Channel that helps them to really …
Candy Pi Calculator
A sweet activity for Pi Day from the new Museum of Mathematics in New York City. Enjoy!
What Kids Don’t Know about Measurement Concepts
Click here for a handout from Carol Findell’s session at the 2012 annual conference of the National Council of Teachers …
Logic Games
Do you have students who tell you “I’m going to be a lawyer – you don’t need math to study …
Problem of the Week 3/4/2013
At a certain time, Janice notices that her digital watch reads a minutes after two o’clock. Fifteen minutes later, it …
The Math SPOT 