While doing exercise, I was asked if I was done. “I am done with 18 min, I have 12 more min left”, as the plan was to exercise for 30 min that day. My 3rd grader was glad to hear that equation. She said that I taught her a new way to add to 30. The next couple of days she kept asking me about any other ways to make 5 other than 2+3 and 1+4. I told her there are infinite ways to make it, if you use negative numbers, but with positive numbers too we could use subtraction to get to the same. I was asked if there were many ways to get to a number through multiplications. Using non-integers, yes. Its these little, curious, innocuous questions that can be used as pathways to introduce amazing math concepts.
When kids love what they learn, they make puzzles of it.
Gauss counting up to 100. Looking for patterns.
Our Mathematics sir in high school always had one tricky but
cool problem in our tests. We always wanted to be smart and get that one right.
Made it fun looking forward to the exam.
1.
Matin Gardner’s recreational mathematics.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/a-quarter-century-of-recreational-m-2010-05-26/
2.
CoolMath instead of Xtramath or more math
3.
Empowering parents to teach
http://www.empoweringparentstoteach.com/math/divisibility-rules-activity/
4.
Pre Algebra – Readiness test
5.
https://www.nctm.org/publications/mathematics-teacher/
6.
When kids love what they learn, they make
puzzles of it.
https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/balance-equation-grand-challenge-algebra-1
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