Materials: Small Index Size Recipe Cards Medium sized Pot Large Stirring Spoon Imagination Create a Scary Recipe for a Halloween Witches’ Brew: Using various fraction amounts of ingredients, all students must add the total amount of liquid for the brew. Ingredients: • 4 1/2 cups Mud Water • 2 1/2 tbls Ghecko Slime • 1 [...]
Even kids use decimals almost everyday without even realizing it. They speak of dollars and cents in everyday conversation, and are using one of the applications of decimals. Yet for some reason, this remains one area of math that elementary students find intimidating. It doesn’t have to be that way. Here are several creative methods [...]
Teaching math is teaching math, right? Not by a long shot! The way we approach teaching children is far different from how we teach adults, and both are completely different from how we teach adolescents. Although certain elements are the same, there are at least six differences in how it is better to teach in [...]