Happy Pi Day!
Learn more about Archimedes’ method for calculating pi with this interactive activity from NCTM Illuminations. Explore the relationships between a …
Category Archives: Grade 5
Candy Pi Calculator
A sweet activity for Pi Day from the new Museum of Mathematics in New York City. Enjoy!
Logic Games
Do you have students who tell you “I’m going to be a lawyer – you don’t need math to study …
New FREE product for practice with equality, mental math, algebraic thinking
Researchers have found that students often view the equal sign as a “do something” signal. What can we do to …
Fun and Learning on Pi Day
With March upon us, here are some ideas for activities and investigations on Pi Day (3/14): 1. Read The Greedy …
Teaching Math to the Core
Grab some popcorn, sit back, and relax while watching four math teachers who challenge and inspire their students to engage in …
Hundreds and Hundreds of Beans
When children first move beyond tens and ones and venture into the hundreds place, it can be confusing to see …
Arabesque, Pirouette, Cha-cha-cha
As with a dance, problems become much more interesting when they are composed of several different kinds of steps. Do …
How many ways can you say 124?
Fourth graders learning about decimal numbers are often confused when asked, for example, to represent 3 and 16 tenths, for …
Struggle: Building Strength or Revealing Weakness?
Do you ever feel like you are helping your students too much and doing the thinking for them? Are you …
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