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Putting the “A” in STEAM

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Are you looking for a summer workshop for your K-12 students? In July, I will be hosting an art/writing workshop for students K-12. We will be focusing on Putting the "A" in STEAM.  This 6-day enrichment workshop will focus around the arts and humanities. Students will create and begin to use a combined art journal and a journal of gratitude. Students will: make their own journal … [Read more...]

Happy National National Chocolate Day: October 28thChocolate Day!

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National Chocolate Day: October 28th My grandmother always said, "God was in a good mood the day He created chocolate!" I grew up thinking that chocolate was a basic food group! And, I admit, chocolate is one of my weaknesses. What does National Chocolate Day have to do with mathematics!   Well - where's the math? Below you will find some suggestions for connecting math and chocolate. Even … [Read more...]

My Favorite Things

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My Favorite Things As fall is finally approaching here in Tennessee I have begun seeing some ads for one of my all time favorite movies: The Sound of Music.  There are so many wonderful songs from the movie. But one of the songs that I loved as a child and still do is My Favorite Things.  I was talking about this with one of my grandsons recently and he asked me an interesting question, given … [Read more...]

Will you be celebrating August 15, 2017?

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Will you be celebrating August 15, 2017?  Why, you may ask?This question makes a great bell ringer or writing prompt for MS/HS math students –even for those who have not yet studied the Pythagorean Theorem. Of course, 8-15-17 is a Pythagorean Triple! This “holiday” does not happen every year. On this day, spend some time with your students discussing Pythagoras and his namesake theorem. Picture … [Read more...]

Happy Palindrome Week!

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  Mathematical Palindromes   A palindrome is a word or a number that can be read the same way in either direction. For example, MOM is still MOM if read backwards. “A man, a plan, a canal, Panama” is a famous palindrome about the building of the Panama Canal. Palindromes can also be numbers. 121 is still 121 if read from the other direction. Time & Date says: A … [Read more...]

NCTM, San Francisco

My colleagues and I really enjoyed your presentation at NCTM.  We have already convinced our principal to pre-order us copies of your new book, but we would also like 4 class sets of the pyramids. 

Many presentations talked about problem solving and the benefits of giving students higher level thinking problems, but yours was the only one that really told us how to teach it and scaffold it for students, rather than just modeling what problem-solving looks likes.  Thanks.

Julie Jacewicz
Beaverton, OR

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