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Many homeschooling parents dream of a mathematical magic bullet — a game, app, or book that will help their children learn math and enjoy it.
As in life, so also in math, there is no magic solution.
Do you want your children to learn math and enjoy it? Teach them to be Math Makers.
When they create their own math, students build deep, personal connections to math concepts. They think about the relationships between numbers, shapes, and patterns. Math becomes personal.
Toys, hobbies, favorite stories — all can be fodder for math creation.
Let the child choose something to think about.
Make an “I Notice” list. How does that item relate to math? What patterns or shapes can you see?
Or how would the story characters use numbers in their daily lives? Would they cook, or go shopping? Might they build something? Would they decorate it with a design? What would they count or measure?
Make an “I Wonder” list. How many different ways might you turn the things you noticed into questions? What else might you ask?
Then turn one of your noticings or wonderings into a math story, poem, puzzle, drawing, or game. Create your own math. Share your creation with family and friends.
Join the Student Math Makers team. We’d love to add your math creation to our collection and share it with viewers all around the world!
Download a Math Makers Invitation and Submission Form below:
CREDITS: Feature photo (top) by MI PHAM via Unsplash.com.
Last week, I mentioned my new project, the Student Math Makers Gallery where children and teens can share their original math creations with the world.
So this week, I’m offering inspiration to get your children’s creative juices flowing.
April is National Poetry Month, and it’s also Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month.
What better way to celebrate than writing math poetry?
Here are some examples…
When children create their own math, they build a deep understanding of mathematical concepts and relationships.
And it’s fun!
So take a break from your normal math program to play with creative math. Students can:
We have a few entries already in the Student Math Makers Gallery.
Click Here To Visit the Gallery
We’d love to add your students’ math to our collection and share it with viewers all around the world!
To submit a math creation, download a Math Makers Invitation and Submission Form below:
CREDITS: “Creating Math Puzzles by Sian Zelbo, the author of Camp Logic, via NaturalMath.com.
Check out the latest carnival of playful math:
Each monthly Playful Math Education Blog Carnival brings you a great new collection of puzzles, math conversations, teaching tips, and all sorts of mathy fun. It’s like a free online magazine of mathematical adventures, helpful and inspiring no matter when you read them.
John put together this wonderful collection of mathematical games, art projects, books, math essays, puzzles, and more.
Click Here to Read the Carnival Blog
Continue reading Playful Math Carnival 145 via Math Hombre
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