it all adds up! engaging math strategies, web tools, and apps

Engaging Ways to Teach Math

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It All Adds Up!

It isn’t that they cannot see the solution. It is that they cannot see the problem.

- GK Chesterton

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Emoji word problems!

Emoji word problems!

Create videos of word problems!

Educreations (Web/iOS)

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Field Research

Students build their own!

Study math of playground equipment!

Mentored by engineers/builders!

Measure shadows!

Test different distances & angles to improve their game!

Foldables

http://pinterest.com/carlahab/math-foldables

Data Visualization

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Piktochart

Canva

Easel.ly Edubuncee Tackk

Biteslide Visme

Glogster

Smore

Grafio

Thinglink

LucidChart

Piktochart.com

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Cooking

How to make a love potion by L. Whittaker, Flic.kr/p/3f8Udp

Experiments

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Sewing

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Send students on learning missions

SITUATION: We are surrounded by fractions. They decide how much or little we get in life so it’s important we can figure them out.

MISSION: Take pictures of 10 fractions and create 4 word problems with these pictures using TinyTap.

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3D Printing

Coding

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Games

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The Digits Fraction Blast iOS/Android

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• The Digits is the greatest unknown rock band in the galaxy. Learn fractions through live action video & games • Pavi, Gorgolax, & Ray Ray fight the evil Marvwell Doomfinger III who wants to use music to make the galaxy stupider. • Get achievements drawn by comic book artists

Great Math Sites & Apps!

Math Vs Zombies iOS K-5

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/math-games-math-vs-zombies/id470896560?mt=8

Math.chat iOS app

Mathseverywhere.org.uk iOS app

MathematicShed.com

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YummyMath.com

Heymath.com/web/funStuff/storymath.jsp

• Students learn math through online stories • Includes problem solving, visuals, text & audio

MathisFun.com

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