More Living Math and Science
Posted by Cindy on January 2, 2009
I meant to put this post up before Christmas break – oops!
I hope you aren’t getting bored with all the fun math we’ve been doing from Hardhatting in a Geo-World. I just can’t help sharing what has been a GREAT math & science unit! If you are getting bored, you’ll be glad to know this is the last post! 
The other posts can be found here and here.
We did one last lesson on bridges. This demonstrated the importance of strong anchors for a suspension bridge to be strong. (Yes, that’s our art table. We needed to place thumbtacks somewhere and the art table did the job. Yes, those are baby feet standing on the art table. He wants to be part of every activity we do!)
We also did a couple of thought-provoking activities concerning geometric shapes. Do you know if you’re a square, tall rectangle or short rectangle? We do! Just measure your height and arm span to find out. Equal measurements mean you are a square. Longer height than arm span makes you a tall rectangle, while shorter height than arm span makes you a short rectangle.
And this activity involved predicting shapes when circles were attached and cut in various ways.
As of January 5th, we’re back on our regular math schedule – three days per week of textbook, two days of living math/problem solving/logic. I’ll continue to share living math ideas, but they won’t come quite as frequently. Until then, happy math lessons!
concerned bridge construction. We had to make six different bridges and test their strength.
