Real World Connections

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Bring Financial Literacy Courses to Schools!

FREE MATH RESOURCE ALERT! *This post is sponsored by Intuit. I love teaching math and as a new bonus Mom, I find that my children are...

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Check-In with Youth: Social and Emotional Learning

*This post is sponsored by The Allstate Foundation. All opinions are my own. What about our youth? Are we checking in with our pre-teens...

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Math Jonesing: Merry Consumerism

Merry Consumerism Shopping Smart is a Gift If the mayhem of Black Friday has taught us anything, it’s that people LOVE a bargain! Willing...

Blog Title = Math Jonesing: The Mall Math Marathon

Math Class or Shopping Spree? You Decide. On January 8th, every student in my 7th grade math class skipped school to go to the mall!...

More than a Worksheet: The Geometry in Real World Project

Looking for an eccentric way to weave geometry into the fabric of real life for you students? This project is sure to silence the...

More than a Worksheet: The Quadratic Formula Project

GET THIS PROJECT PLAN BY CLICKING HERE! Looking for a way to put the “rad” back in quadratic? Here’s a crazy-fun and creative way to help...

Fashion Fridays: Math Reflected Translations

Oh man! It looks like our math teacher has become a true scientist and mastered the ability to clone herself! Either that, or she's just...

Fashion Fridays: Math Circles

Did you notice the circles the first time you viewed this picture? Yes! No- just me? Well, by the end of this blog, I hope you will start...

More than a Worksheet: The Math Autobiography Project

Looking for a fun way to get to know your new students this year? You could always take attendance and ask them to write out what they...

Fashion Fridays: Math Tessellation

Uh oh, looks like our teacher has tessellated on the floor! Luckily, this isn’t a bad thing as the floor is tessellated too! Before you...

More than a Worksheet: The Transformation Dance Project

GET THIS PROJECT PLAN BY CLICKING HERE! Do you love to dance to the beat of your own drum? What about to the beat of the mathematical...

5 Ways to Boost Math Esteem: Incorporate Non-computational Real World Connections

Can you believe that to some math is considered to be a subject needed only to graduate??? To these people, math is never to be used...

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