who says math can’t be fun & games

Who says math can’t be fun & games

Nancy L. Footewww.nancyfootehigley.com

Tennessee Math Standards

• Flexibility• Fluency• Adaptability• Technology• Vocabulary

Exciting, engaging and memorable

• Games• Podcasts• Technology

Proportional reasoning

• 1 out of 4 doctors say …• Hybrid cars get 35 mpg in the city. Buy a

hybrid and save 50% on fuel.• It’s on sale for 40% off.• It will grow 600%.• 5 for $1.25

• Lilliputians are 6 inches tall.• Gulliver is 6 feet tall.

• How many Lilliputians are needed to be as tall as you?

Proportional Reasoning

• Then they measured my right thumb, and desired no more; for by a mathematical computation, that twice round the thumb is once round the wrist, and so on to the neck and the waist.

• Really? Let’s measure in cm.

Shirt making 101

• Astronomers discovered a planet beyond our solar system that is 1.6 times the size of Jupiter.

• Jupiter is 11.2 times the size of Earth.• How big is the new planet compared to

Earth?

Space: The Next Frontier

It’s kind of funny …

… and kind of sad

GamesTo teach math

Dice games

• Multiplication madness• Integer excitement• Fraction busters

Adding machine tape

• Race to the top• Remnants

Skillboard math

One extra tile• 1/3 of 21• 1/5 of 40• 1/8 of 72• ½ the number of sides on a hexagon• 1/6 of 2 dozen• 1/8 the number of ounces in a pound• 1/7 of 42• 1/5 the value of a quarter• 1/7 the number of days in a week

Number tiles

Challenge 1• The locker number is

odd.• The sum of the digits is

greater than 15.• The first digit is 1 more

than the third.• The second digit is 2

more than the first.

Challenge 2

• The locker number is odd.

• The second digit is 4 less than the third.

• The first digit is 7 more than the second.

Use the number tiles 0 – 9 to find the 3-digit locker number.

Story graph

• Incorporate writing into math

Puzzles

I couldn’t sleep last night. The digital clock kept me awake. I got to thinking – I wonder which number shows up for the greatest amount of time? How much time does it show up for?

I’m in Tennessee

T E N N E S S E E T E1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

I wonder what letter is number 20?Number 100?

Did you know?

• One-seventh of the world’s population is left-handed.

• Memphis is home for 650,000 people.• How many are left-handed?

Podcasting 101

• Mental math podcasts• Write• Review• Record• Publish

Mental Math

Domino math

I have who has?