Math

From Eric Curts:

A poem can take on many different forms: sonnet, limerick, haiku, free verse, acrostic, and more. One fun form of poetry that mixes writing and math is the "Pi Poem".

A "Pi Poem" is composed of words where the length of each word is equal to each digit of pi in order. So for example, the beginning of the poem would be made of a 3-letter word, 1-letter word, 4-letter word, 1-letter word, and 5-letter word, for the beginning of pi which starts as 3.1415. Punctuation doesn't count.

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Join Eric Curts as he walks you through how to do an investigation where the students discover the meaning of Pi by using Google Sheets.

Great ideas for using online digital notebooks in Math 6-8, Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2 from Mathbits.com Click HERE to access examples.

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From Eric Curts:

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For many students, math is the worst subject in the world. When you ask them what they think about math they’ll tell you it sucks. They sit in their seat, they take notes, and they complete 1-30 even if they already understand. Friend, math doesn’t have to suck! You can create a learning experience for students that will make them want to come to class.

On this site you can find questions and activities to make math not suck for students. Explore the site, I hope you find something to make the math experience better in your classroom and school. If you have an amazing activity that you use in your classroom, click the submit button at the top.

Let’s make math not suck for our students!

A free and open computational thinking playground for grades K-12. Modify expressions, functions, and algorithms to discover the beauty of math. PolyUp Math

Polyup, is a new, free math education app that is sweeping across US and internationally. With the goal of instilling creative problem solving and computational thinking skills to K-12 students, Polyup allows students to play with numbers and functions in a free form environment.

Mathigon - The textbook of the future.

The innovative new content format makes mathematics more interactive than ever before. At every step students have to actively participate, explore, and discover new ideas.

Unlike videos and other textbooks, students don’t just consume information: they engage through problem solving, reasoning and creativity.

Mathigon is completely free - so get started now! In collaboration we have created a series of quizzes on Quizalize for you to play and assign for your class linking through to Mathigon:

Play the quiz using classcode zdj9922

Search for "Mathigon" on the resource page and set it for each student to play individually.

Quizalize - https://www.quizalize.com/

Mathigon - https://mathigon.org/

Math Manipulatives

Our online manipulatives include an interactive clock, two color counters, 3D dice, probability spinners, graph builders, fraction bars, base ten blocks, and more! We also recommend some of our art activities that can be used as teaching manipulatives, such as Cube or Build that allow kids to make designs using blocks to learn concepts like area, perimeter, or volume or Mirror to teach symmetry to early learners.

These virtual math manipulatives support teachers to model abstract mathematical concepts for deeper student comprehension. Similar to manipulatives that have been used for decades by teachers in classrooms, these online math manipulatives for elementary and middle school classrooms offer numerous advantages while retaining the benefits of the classic manipulatives