Sunday, March 16, 2014

Translating Triangles With Quilts: Janet's Quilts

Translation Please...

This is a cool quilt inspired by the quilter's son's geometry class.

Here's the original post: Material Maven's Blogspot

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Winter Olympics

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:

Monday, March 2, 2009

Welcome

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!