I really like Sudoku but there isnt much math involved. Someone told me about the puzzle called Ken Ken where you have to use math to solve it but it also has the rules of sudoku in it. I think that in my classroom I will have a few of these puzzles lying around if […]
We talk a lot about using manipulatives in the classroom and I stumbled across these prime number manipulatives that a teacher came up with. He used Scrabble tiles and wrote on the back of them. He admitted to runing about 5 Scrabble games in the process, but you can always use them in the game […]
I have come to really like a lot of posts by Kate Nowak and When I came across her Extrinsic Motivation post I thought it was awesome! She talks about how she is in a cake decorating class and how she was supposed to make a rainbow but made a pie chart on the cake […]
As I was just clicking on links I stumbled across this cool way to convert units of measurement on the blog approaching infinity. http://approachinfinity.blogspot.com/2009/12/converting-units-of-measurement-using.html When I was in Middle School I had trouble understanding how to convert from one unit to the other. I eventually just memorized how to do that without learning any trick […]