Everyday Learning 4 / Math Art and Activities

We started off the school year with a typical math textbook. We figured we’d try it. After all, repetition can be a way to learn (i.e. memorize) arithmatic. As the year has progressed we’ve been doing less workbook and more hands on math activities. The difference in our daughter’s interest, passion, and comprehensive in math since we started doing more projects and less workbook has been striking. (Not much of a surprise there!)

Everyday Learning 4 / Math Art and Activities

Some recent math activities we’ve been enjoying include:

Everyday Learning 4 / Math Art and Activities
Making Fraction Flags…

Everyday Learning 4 / Math Art and Activities
Operating a Fraction Pie Shop (with this game and this cash register; although this newer wooden one with an actual calculator may be even better)…

Everyday Learning 4 / Math Art and Activities
Coloring quilt squares to practice fractions…

Everyday Learning 4 / Math Art and Activities
Creating Fraction Flowers…

Everyday Learning 4 / Math Art and Activities
Playing Math War to practice addition and subtraction…

I feel thankful for fantastic math resources like MathART Projects and Activitiesand Math Art: Hands-On Math Activities enabling me to NOT have to reinvent the wheel, i.e. create math curriculum from scratch. That means one fewer item on mama’s to-do list, thank you very much. So far each math activity has been a hit!

3 thoughts on “Everyday Learning 4 / Math Art and Activities”

  1. The girls were playing school yesterday, and your girl was the math teacher! She was teaching addition — saying 2+1=3 over and over…

  2. The peanut is growing up so quickly and that last picture totally and completely reminds me of you as a kid!!!

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