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Mathematics Fun, Fact, Fiction, Function, Fantasy Here is a collection of mathematical activities and curiosities...enjoy them! BRAND NEW 2008 Line of Fractal Imagery -- 594 Images -- Oh Wow! ---> Show me the fractals! Extensive Graphical Spherical Harmonic Study --- 640+ Images ---> Take me there! 2006 Line of Fractal Imagery -- 336 Images -- Gotta See Them ---> Let's go there! Guess Your Birthday! Here's a fun trick to show a friend, a group, or an entire class of people. Step 1) Have them take the month number from their birthday: January = 1, Feb = 2 etc. Have them give you the total. How It Works: Let M be the month number and D will be the day number. Thus, if you subtract off the 165, what will remain will be the month in hundreds plus the day! By the way, if you wish to know how many minutes and seconds you have been alive and lots more about when you were born, you might like to try this website ==> Birthday Calculator Divisibility Rules! *A big thank you to Torsten Sillke for these rules! Do You Love "Alphametics?" Did You Know?

Math Projects About Project-Based Learning Projects help students personalize their learning and are ideal for gaining key knowledge and understanding of content and answering the question: Where am I ever going to use this?" Among the greatest benefits of project-based learning (PBL) are gains in students' critical-thinking skills and development of their interpersonal and intrapersonal skills. PBL is also an ideal way to help learners gain speaking and presentation skills indentified in the Common Core Standards. However, as Bryan Goodwin (2010) found in reviewing the literature, a major shortcoming in many student projects is that educators tend to assign projects just for the sake of doing them. Students should publicly present their work, as they will be more motivated to produce a quality product when knowing a real audience will view it (Larmer & Mergendoller, 2015, 2010). Finally, projects should include the element of reflection. What do we mean by building 21st century skills? Key Questions

Math Resources Maths Blog - Free Maths Worksheets, Resources and Reviews About Ascend Math Intervention | Online Tutorials | Personalized Learning Plans | Assessment Ascend Math gives you the power of highly acclaimed math tutorials, personalized learning plans, and continuous assessment to get your students back up to grade level fast. Ascend Math is the research-based web delivered math intervention that: Identifies student skill gaps Prescribes targeted individualized instruction Motivates them through award winning video instruction and interactive explorations Students using Ascend as their primary math intervention strategy often achieve two or more grade levels in less than one school year. Grissom Middle School, IN Special Education Math Intervention More about this implementation Carbon County School District, WY Special Education, tier 2 intervention, after school enrichment, algebra readiness, and gifted and talented students Seven months with Ascend More about this implementation Next

Connecting to Math in Real Life By Wendy Petti Who needs math games when a world of meaningful real-life fun is beckoning? It's easy and rewarding to connect to the real world in math class. On the Information Highway," we can find online collections of real-world math activities, math activities with a specific real-life focus (including natural disasters), online data sources, portals for joining or launching collaborative math and science projects, and more. Collections of Real-World Math Activities The math activity sites listed here are repositories of lesson ideas that can be explored offline without the use of computers. Math Goodies Their multi-media curriculum includes 168 in-depth lessons organized into instructional units. Practical Uses of Math and Science (PUMAS) This site offers 71 examples of real-life applications of math for upper elementary grades and above, including drawing/interpreting topographical maps, money math, creating math magic problems, measuring the heat of sand and rock; and much more.

Math As A Second Language Fraction as a Number: 3.5 Indicator of progress An important step in mathematical development is that students come to see a fraction a/b as one number, even though it is written using two whole numbers, a and b. The concept of fraction begins as a way of describing part-whole relationships. If I am getting two fifths of the pizza, then my part is obtained by dividing the pizza into 5 equal parts, and taking 2 of them. Fractions can be used in these ways before students fully consider them as numbers in their own right. Illustration 1: Placing a fraction on a number line A student who does not know that 2/3 is one number will have trouble marking this point on a number line as a point between 0 and 1. Before they see a fraction as one number, students cannot place fractions on a number line and are unable to use the number line to model operations with fractions. Illustration 2: Number sense, especially with addition and subtraction of fractions Teaching strategies Activity 1: Comparing Fractions Diagnostic Test

Math Riddles: Try to answer these brain teasers and math riddles Riddle 1 How can you add eight 8's to get the number 1,000? (only use addition) The key to this math riddle is realizing that the one place must be zero. 888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1,000 Riddle 2 Two Fathers and Two Sons Riddle Two fathers and two sons sat down to eat eggs for breakfast. one of the 'fathers' is also a grandfather. In other words, the one father is both a son and a father. Riddle 3 Digit Frequency Part I. The most common digit is '1.' Part II. 0 is the least common digit even though 1,000 has three zero's ! Explanations for both riddles The digits 0 through 9 all follow the same pattern there is exactly 1 occurrence of each digit for every ten numbers. For instance the digit 2 appears once between 10 and 19, at 12. Again, let's look at 2 which appears in 20,21,22, 23, etc.. as well as 200,201, 202,203.. So to figure out how to answer the first riddle you had to see what distinguishes the number 1? Riddle 4 Three Guys at A Hotel Riddle Three guys rent a hotel room for the night. Riddle 5

math Are We Underestimating the Math Powers of Our Youngest Students? New research questions if US math scores would improve if students were exposed to more complicated math early in their school lives. Continue Reading Could Calculus Be A Better Way to Introduce Kids to Math Than Arithmetic? Some educators are beginning to question the assumption that math is best taught in a linear sequence, focusing on patterns and structures instead of computations with elementary students. Continue Reading Math and Inquiry: The Importance of Letting Students Stumble For subjects like math and foreign language, which are traditionally taught in a linear and highly structured context, using more open-ended inquiry-based models can be challenging. Continue Reading Inquiry Learning Ideas for Math and Science With iPads Giving children ample opportunities to develop sound investigative skills at an early age is essential to nurturing their ability to think critically and scientifically as they get older.

Ingham ISD Mathematics - home Geometric Shapes. Your One Stop Basic Geometry Resource Factoring a Quadratic Trinomial by Grouping Another method for factoring these kinds of quadratic trinomials is called factoring by grouping. Factoring by grouping can be a bit more tedious, and is often not worth the trouble if you can find the correct factors by some quick trial and error. However, it works quite well when the factors are not immediately obvious, such as when you have a very large number of candidate factors. Factoring by grouping is best demonstrated with a few examples. Example: The Procedure Given a general quadratic trinomial ax2 + bx + c 1. 2. hk = ac (h and k are factors of the product of the coefficient of x2 and the constant term) h + k = b (h and k add to give the coefficient of x) 3. ax2 + hx + kx + c 4. (ax2 + hx) + (kx + c) x(ax + h) + (kx + c) (note: because of the way you chose h and k, you will be able to factor a constant out of the second parentheses, leaving you with two identical expressions in parentheses as in the examples).