AIMS Puzzle Corner: Free Math Puzzles This week’s Puzzle Corner activity is a magic trick with a mathematical, as well as a slight-of-hand, component. I first came across this trick in one of Martin Gardner’s many books on recreational mathematics. I liked it so much that I have been stumping students, friends, and family members with it ever since. In order to make this trick work, you will need to practice it by yourself until the moves (illustrated at bottom) become automatic, before trying it out on someone else. Its success, like the success of many magic tricks, depends on diverting the audience’s in this case, your students’ attention. Make It Metric Summary:Activities help students learn the sequence of metric prefixes and to make conversions within the metric system. Main Curriculum Tie: Mathematics - 6th GradeStandard 4 Objective 2Identify and describe measurable attributes of objects and units of measurement, and solve problems involving measurement. Materials:Invitation to Learn
Learning Mathematics Through Games Series: 1. Why Games? We all know that children enjoy playing games. Experience tells us that games can be very productive learning activities. But ... What should teachers say when asked to educationally justify the use of games in mathematics lessons?Are some games better than others?What educational benefits are there to be gained from games? OWL Coming Soon: A new look for our same great content! We're working hard this summer on a redesign of the Purdue OWL. Worry not!
Visual Fractions - A Fraction Tutorial ChiliMath - Free Math Help How Not to Teach Context Clues To most intermediate, middle, high school, and college teachers, teaching context clues means helping students consciously identify and apply strategies to figure out the meaning of unknown words through hints in the surrounding text. These hints include pictures, syntax, text format, grammatical constructions, mood or tone, mechanics, and surrounding words that provide synonym, antonym, logic, or example clues Many of these teachers would also label the structural analysis of the unknown word itself as a context clue. Using morphemes (meaningful word parts, such as Greek and Latinates), syllabication strategies, grammatical inflections, and parts of speech also can help students figure of the meaning of unknown words. Some teachers would also include using hints outside of the text, such as prior knowledge or story schema in their definition and application of context clue strategies. On one side of the battle are the “Phonic-ators.”
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New Type of Gamma Ray Bursts That Can Destroy Stars Discovered Scientists have discovered a cosmic explosion of gamma rays that lasted several hours instead of common minutes-long gamma ray bursts. Gamma ray bursts are the most luminous explosions in the universe Gamma rays are the highest form of light. They have the highest energy level, they can have over a billion times the energy of visible light.