Articles about 'Math'
March 14th, 2012
Happy Pi Day! Pi is the mathematical constant π which represents the ratio of any circle to its diameter. This number is approximately 3.14. Today is 3/14 and that’s why it’s held today. You can celebrate pi day by eating some pie!
Bon appetit!
Mama Lisa
July 23rd, 2011
Gulliver’s Travels is a novel written by Jonathan Swift in 1726. It’s about the extraordinary travels of Gulliver. He travels to exotic lands, including one country where everyone is little and he’s huge in proportion to them. This land is called Lilliput and everyone there is about 6 inches tall!
Then Gulliver travels to Brobdingnag,...
March 2nd, 2011
Emanuela Marsura is a preschool teacher in Italy. She wrote to me about how her students cook in her school: "We do cooking every Friday. We have prepared: gnocchi with potatoes, taralli napoletani, cakes and many biscuits! The Children love Friday!"
Cooking is a great opportunity for kids to learn… they measure the ingredients...
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November 12th, 2010
8 x 7 = ?
Parents, teachers and students are always looking for new ways to help kids learn their Math Facts, especially the multiplication table.
Here’s a recording Marisa did with some tricks she uses to help her with the trickier multiplication facts she has to know. They’re those numbers in the middle that don’t stick...
November 7th, 2010
In the US, we have a test called the SAT that you take as part of the process for getting into college.
American parents out there might not realize that the test has changed. There are now three parts to the standard SAT: Reading, Math and Writing (with an Essay section). You can score up...
April 17th, 2010
Can multiple recitations of the many digits of a mathematical constant be fun and entertaining? Yes!
Librivox volunteers recorded Pi to the 50th digit for Pi Day one year. Here’s the number:
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
Some of these recordings are very creative. The musical ones show how music can be made out of anything! You can hear Pi...
March 14th, 2010
Happy Pi Day! Some people have the ability to remember pi to the nth digit.
Thanks to Stephanie Batzer for reminding me of this great day!
Now, go eat some pie!
Mama Lisa
March 16th, 2009
Here’s a yummy recipe given to me by Corrine Lewack. Corrine pointed out that it’s a good “math” teaching recipe to make with kids, since it involves counting out candy kisses and then doubling the amount of pretzels per kiss to make “sandwiches”.
What you will need: 25 Hershey Kisses (Plain) ...
June 17th, 2008
Miss Gellatly’s first graders show how a class can work together to create a meaningful end-of-year project. Here’s their poem that they wrote as a group. You can hear them reciting it in the mp3 below…
MP3 of First Grade Rocks!
1st Grade Rocks!
We add and subtract.
We learned all the facts.
Our field trips were cool.
Then...
June 1st, 2007
Click on the button on the bottom bar below to watch the wonderful children at the Daddy Ross Preschool in Argentina act out the actions to the song Ten in the Bed.
The music in the background of the video is from a CD called Super Simple Songs.
Here are the lyrics to...
March 17th, 2007
Check out Jeremy, from my previous pi post, lip-sync-singing pi to the xth digit! (Did you get what I was trying to say there? It’ll all become clear when you watch the clip…)
I thought that was too funny to pass up! –Lisa
Get the Pi Song
Check out the site Super Simple Songs to...
March 16th, 2007
I’m not ashamed to admit it, here’s what I can remember:
3.14… to infinity!
Well the other day, when I wrote about Pi Day, Devon over at Head, Shoulders, Knees and all that, commented about a video we could watch of one of his colleagues reciting all the numbers listed below in pi. (He made...
March 12th, 2007
Pi (π) Day is celebrated on March 14th in the US. It’s mainly celebrated by students, teachers and professors, lovers of math, and mathematicians.
In case you forgot… What is Pi Again?
Pi (π) is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. To break it down into a simple formula:
π...
March 5th, 2007
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about the 100 Day Celebration and how the children in my daughter’s class each made a project with 100 items. My daughter just got hers back. She used 100 Legos to write 100. Here’s a photo of her Lego project below…
A teacher from...
February 12th, 2007
Last week I joined my daughter’s kindergarten class for their 100th Day of School Celebration.
The teacher uses the 100 Day Celebration as an opportunity to teach the class about the concept of 100. Before the big day, the children learn to count to 100 by ones, fives and tens.
The week before the...
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