Math is Everywhere: making your own “textbook”

Scott and I are making a book!

We flipped through the newspaper to find all the places math was being used and discovered it was… everywhere!

We decided to write a book. Our first step was to cut, cut, cut like crazy. Scott cut out some of the math we are used to seeing while I cut out more abstract concepts. Here is Phase One of our book:

Phase Two will be to glue concepts from our textbook to match the real world math. In other words, the theoretical to the practical.

Phase Three will be to write stories to talk about how the math is being used.

Stay tuned!

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Awesome new Museum Tour Website

http://www.mi-classroom.com

Multiple Intelligences transform the way we learn, but more significantly it enhances the way we teach. The goal of “Museum Tour” is to provide educators with a variety of graphic organizers, lesson plans, artifacts and materials for implementing Multiple Intelligences in the Everyday Classroom.

“Museum Tour” provides a range of links, documents and resources and provides the opportunity for teachers, educators and students to contribute their own ideas, transforming the classroom into dynamic and integrated learning environment.

“Programs embodying these approaches should excite teachers, engage students, and effect precisely those connections between intuitive and formal knowledge…”
(Gardner, 2004, The Unschooled Mind)

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– Naturalist (Nature Smart)
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Integrated Reading
Games
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Literary Circle Worksheets:
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– Radical Researcher
– Discussion Director
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– Critical Connector
Activites
And more!