NCTM has put together a collection of lesson ideas and activities with a Halloween theme.Take a look at an array of activities for all grade levels that offers some delicious ideas that will be sure to sweeten your Halloween lessons and delight your students.
Michigan Council of Teachers of Mathematics (MCTM) is continuing to work on a series of books titled Adventures with Mathematics, which provide students with short problems as well as hands-on activities for each grade level and are designed to minimize summer learning loss. The proceeds from the sales of the books will be used for the MCTM scholarship endowment fund to provide scholarships for future mathematics teachers. They are in need of some more activities and short problems to help make this series a success. The following books are still in need of good problems and activities
For a detailed list of which GLCE's and HSCE's still need problems and activities, visit F2010 Needs for Adventures with Mathematics books.pdf
If you are willing to help or have further questions, please contact either Char Beckmann at beckmannc21@aol.com or Jean Williams at jeanwms17@sbcglobal.net.
The Mathwire blog has posted a great teacher-developed activity (assessment), The Number Pull, to help teachers understand each of their student's degree of number sense. The assessment was developed as a followup to Mathwire's Number Line-Up activity. Use the two together to help your students develop rigorous and flexible number sense.
What do Michael J. Fox, basketball and Justin Bieber all have in common? They're all from Canada!In Where is Everybody?, students will not only familiarize themselves with Canada's culture, geography and trivia, but will also learn the Rough Rule of Ten, create box-and-whisker plots and become more comfortable with fractions, decimals and percents.
In this lesson, students will:
