Math Monday::Pentominoes, part 2.

When I last left off our pentominoes investigation, the kids had made the pentomino shapes out of square pieces of paper and laminated them. The sheets of pentominoes looked like this, and then we cut them out:

So now that they each had 12 pentomino shapes as their game pieces (review of what a pentomino [...]

Math Monday::Play Math!

I’ll have to wait until this week’s Creative Math Club to finish off the Pentomino Math part of Math Monday, so in the meantime I’ll share the things we’ve found that have made math really fun for us.
Our journey towards not hating math has come slowly, over the past 4 years. I’m hoping that [...]

Math Monday::Pentominoes!

{as an aside, let’s just all pretend that I actually write and post these on Monday, it would help keep the whole ‘math monday’ alliteration theme going…and help me keep my dignity…}
A few weeks ago, our Creative Math club met together and did even more things with the square inch pieces of paper that Sonja [...]

Math Monday:: “Simon Says…” Angles Math

In the spirit of Trampoline Math, our Math Club last week opened with some new Simon Says activities. Our exploration into square numbers and then the Pythagorean Theorem also led us into discussing angles and triangles.
The angles being: obtuse (bigger than 90 degrees), accute (smaller than 90 degrees), and right (90 [...]

Math Monday::Pythagorean Theorem

For our latest Creative Math Club, Sonja (who I’m happy to say is rested and recovered from her family’s bout with the flu!) prepared some activities having to do with the Pythagorean Theorem. We geared this one towards the older set of kids, those between the ages of 10-15. We had an amazing [...]

My Soul Is In The Sky–William Shakespeare

I’m working on my Math Monday post, in the meantime I thought I’d share that if you head on over to Shutter Sisters today, you’ll see my picture featured on their blog! I’ve been inspired by the Shutter Sister website and by the amazing women that form the Shutter Sisters group on Flickr, so [...]

Math Monday::Halloween Symmetry!

With Halloween being not to far away, at least for us here in the USA (which reminds me of a hysterical story involving our attempt to trick or treat with the kids when we lived in Budapest…but I’ll save that for later…), we’ve been crafting like crazy. Also, the leaves are almost all off [...]

Math Monday::It’s hip to be square!

Yep, we’re still being square over here for Creative Math Club. We had a few new kids, so we basically just went back over how to find a square number using square pieces of paper (cut lovingly by moi the night before…it was a good excuse to get the super cool paper cutter from [...]

Math Monday::Shape Safari

Last Math Monday I talked about finding square numbers and square roots with older kids (8 and up). While they were doing that with Sonja, I hung out with the younger kids and we did some shape explorations of our own!
First, we used Learning Resources Classpack Tangrams
to construct our own ‘mosaics’ (and yes, we [...]

Math Mondays::Be a Square!

Creative Math Club has started back up for those people in my area who also belong to the Out of the Box group on yahoo. The Math Club isn’t that old…we had it every week for 3 or 4 months in the springtime, and then stopped when summer appeared. I knew it was [...]