Yummy Math

Yummy Math - We provide teachers and students with mathematics relevant to our world today …We’ve created Yummy Math to provide teachers with an easy way to bring real-life into their math classrooms. It is our belief that when math is explored in contexts that are familiar and of interest to students, students will be more engaged to do math, reason, think critically, question and communicate.  Our activities are written to correspond with the NCTM Process Standards and the CCSS Standards for Mathematical Practice.  We are in the process of adding CCSS correlation to each of our activities.  We’ve kept the site updated with multiple activities per week since March 2010 at no charge to teachers. If you have used our material, please consider making a donation to help us continue bringing meaningful mathematics to you and your students. Thank you.

Great Math Videos

Check out LearnersTV for some great Math videos.  (thanks Darren for sharing!)

13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence Read more: 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence

Read more: 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

The Birthday Problem

Grab kids' attention on first day of class. If class size >= 23 two kids probably have same birthday.  Click the link to find out how...http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4542341

Secret of the Fibonacci Sequence in Trees

Secret of the Fibonacci Sequence in Trees- check out this interesting article written by a 13 year-old.

Leading mathematician debunks ‘value-added’ 

By Valerie Strauss

This was written by John Ewing, president of Math for America, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving mathematics education in U.S. public high schools by recruiting, training and retaining great teachers. This article originally appeared in the May Notices of the American Mathematics Society. It gives a comprehensive look at the history, current use and problems with the value-added model of assessing teachers. It is long but well worth your time.

Math Monday - Make Magazine

A great resource for pictures and lesson ideas. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/tag/MathMonday