All Posts Tagged With: "math education"
Numbers that add up to summer math fun for elementary school children
Question: Where can you find fun math lessons during the summer so your elementary school kids don’t lose the number knowledge they picked up during the school year?
Answer: All around you, said educator Andy Isaacs.
There are math lessons in the games you play, the excursions you take, the trips you make to the grocery store, [...]
11Jun2009 | | 1 comment | Continued
Math 24: Having fun and building math skills at the same time
The game Math 24 attracts a lot of students every Wednesday during lunch to the auditorium at El Camino Creek Elementary School in Carlsbad. The promise of candy helps just a bit, but it’s the game, most definitely the game, that’s the big draw.
Math 24 for the uninitiated is a card game that challenges players [...]
24Mar2009 | | 1 comment | Continued
Let’s celebrate Pi Day! All together now 3.14159…
March 14 is National Pi Day. And 1:59 p.m. on 3.14 is pi minute. (3.14159 ad infinitum.) Looking for some smart ways to celebrate it? The Exploratorium is San Francisco, creator of the first Pi Day, has some great pi celebration ideas.
Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to the diameter. That [...]
13Mar2009 | | 0 comments | Continued
