Educations Matters: Diverse Children's Book Reviews
Math games, apps, and ideas for kids including math facts addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
My middle school principal is encouraging students to stay sharp in math by doing a great free summer math program through TenMarks that I wanted to share with my readers too! This is what our principal says: Summer Math Ten Marks is once again offering their free summer program. With the Ten Marks summer program students take…
Happy Pi Day! Get it? March 14th is 3.14! It’s especially appropriate this year, 2015, as the first few numbers of pi are 3.1415! To celebrate, I dug up Pi Day cartoons! I hope you enjoy Pi Day today!! The number π is a mathematical constant, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter,…
Please welcome my guest blogger, Michele Williams, Ph.D., who has a math tutoring company. Today she will be sharing tried-and-true ideas for making math fun for kids! —————— I can’t think of anything more rewarding than tutoring, especially in math. That’s why I spent nights and weekends helping family and friends with math during my…
Tau is approximately equal to 6.28, so that makes today, 6/28, Tau day! Happy Tau Day. One easy way to think of Tau Day is just to eat twice as much pie today as you did on Pi Day (March 14). But … uhmm, what exactly is Tau?! What is Tau? In 2001, Bob Palais published…
The summer is nearly here — we have two more weeks of school left! — and I need to get our summer math in order! Summer Math Word Problems for Elementary School For my rising 3rd grade son, it’s an easy decision: Daily Word Problems, Grade 4. All three of my kids have been…
Happy Pi Day! To celebrate, we are going to explore the idea of Pi and storytelling. Can the infinite sequence of the number Pi tell a story? Am I nuts to even think this? pi pī noun: the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet ( Π, π ), transliterated as ‘p.’ symbol: the numerical value of pi. pi =3.14159265359……
At the end of second grade my son started learning his multiplication facts along with a few division facts. He had been using a free math site his 2nd grade teacher recommended called Xtra Math and after finishing addition and subtraction facts, moved on to multiplication. Though the site was effective in teaching him math…