Our “math break” continues to bring lively and rich lessons!  One of the projects from Hardhatting in a Geo-World concerned bridge construction.  We had to make six different bridges and test their strength.

After completing the activity and filling in the chart provided, I had the kiddos show their findings with homemade graphs.

The book talked a [...]

October/November = lots of falling leaves and lots of candy.  What better to do with both of those things?  Math, of course!  )
Whether you have extra M&M’s, Skittles, Smarties, Runts, or just a big bunch of assorted candy bars, take a few minutes to turn those sweets into more than cavities.  Even little bitty [...]

Talk about a fun week of math learning!  Here are a couple of the activities my children did during our week of m&m math fun.  Overall, we covered estimation, sorting, counting, adding, word problems, pictographs, bar graphs, comparison graphs, pie graphs, graphs made in a spreadsheet program, fractions, fair shares (division), mean/median/mode, decimals and percentages.  I’d [...]