Happenings at Yummymath
Mother’s Day is right around the corner and this means big business for the greeting card and floral industries. Let your students practice averages, percents, and large numbers while they analyze the statistics on Mother’s Day spending. You could even…
We’ve got hundreds of great activities that demonstrate how math happens all around us. Let your student choose an activity that interests him/her and enjoy the discoveries.
We’ve just added a new page entitled “Our user’s favorite activities” for another way of choosing an appropriate activity for your classroom. The link to that page is located under the dark gray menu. Enjoy!
November 25, 2016 I’m a retired classroom mathematics teacher but I have the luxury of teaching part-time in a local high school, Newton South, MA. When I enter the building there is often a student entering just before me. I…
I asked #MTBoS & Twitter in general for suggestions for resources with challenging problems (not lessons or activities, just problems), preferably searchable by CCSS or math concept/skill. Many people asked me to share. Here is some of what I heard…
Here are our slides from our ATMIM Spring Conference Presentation. We had a great time doing math and talking real world and rich task implementation with the group. We will keep our users posted as to where we are presenting…
We had a great time presenting at the NCTM conference in Nashville this morning. Here is a pdf of our powerpoint presentation. Fun! RichTasksPresentation-Nashville,TN.pdf
We’ve recently improved our drop down menus to show more exact CCSS topics. Hope this helps in your searches. Check it out and let us know what you think. Thanks, Brian and Leslie
We’ve reworked the accuracy of our drop-down menu choices so that when you pull down 4th grade (for instance) you get a good search of whichever 4th grade domain that you were interested in. Try it out!
I am an avid blog reader. I find all sorts of new ideas and am refreshed about ideas that I realized in the past. It always seems great to get a new or different angle on math ed topics. Here…
We are excited to share some recent blog posts about Yummymath. Enjoy what people are saying and how they are using our website and materials. Yummymath has Yummy Ideas! A one to one classroom teacher describes the impact of using yummymath…
On Thursday evening Leslie and Brian spoke at Boston College as part of the ATMIM (Association of Teachers of Mathematics in Massachusetts) Winter Conference. Our presentation was on making mathematics meaningful to students. We shared, did and discussed math activities…