Olympics Math
The Winter Olympiad continues in Vancouver, Canada. Sports is always a great tool to get kids interested in math, and to provide them with real world applications for mathematical thinking and processes.
Some excellent tools to use follow:
Winter Olympics Graphing
Erica Loop's blog provides a good outline to get kids to create bar graphs, histograms, and other visual representations of Olympic results.
Use the Vancouver Olympics' web-site for data.
For example, here's the Olympics medal count as of today:
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Monday, March 2, 2009
Woo-hoo!
Welcome to the MathOughts blog, which is designed to be a platform to share thoughts and information about math.
As a second career middle- and secondary- school math teacher, I'm constantly looking for new ways to make math relevant to my students, and to entertain and educate them -- as well as myself.
My hope is to gather information, and post it in the form of an open working bibliography of information, thoughts, questions and what-nots.
So join me on my journey of exploration, and pitch in, help, cajole, refine or just plain heckle...
Oh, one more thing: let's remember that learning and teaching math ought to be fun!
Welcome to the MathOughts blog, which is designed to be a platform to share thoughts and information about math.
As a second career middle- and secondary- school math teacher, I'm constantly looking for new ways to make math relevant to my students, and to entertain and educate them -- as well as myself.
My hope is to gather information, and post it in the form of an open working bibliography of information, thoughts, questions and what-nots.
So join me on my journey of exploration, and pitch in, help, cajole, refine or just plain heckle...
Oh, one more thing: let's remember that learning and teaching math ought to be fun!
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