How to Make and Use Math Manipulatives for Learning Measurement and Fractions
Posted in Math on October 24, 2016
This is the third installment of Education Tools! How to Make and Use Math Manipulatives for Learning Measurement and Fractions Easy, Inexpensive Ideas for Making Math Manipulatives to Teach Children to Understand Measurements and Fractions When teaching a child measurement, nothing can beat good old-fashioned rulers and yard sticks. Try to collect a few different Read More »
How to Make and Use Math Manipulatives for Basic Operations
Posted in Math on October 18, 2016
This is the first post in a series of posts about using math manipulatives. Easy, Inexpensive Ideas for Teaching Adding, Subtracting, Multiplication and Division To introduce a child to counting and single-digit addition and subtraction with manipulatives, begin with a large quantity of small items you probably have lying around the house. Pennies, beans, beads, Read More »
How to Make and Use Math Manipulatives for Learning Geometry
Posted in Math on October 18, 2016
This is my second post on math manipulatives. The previous post covered basic operations. In this article, I'm going to cover geometry. Easy, Inexpensive Ideas for Making Math Manipulatives to Teach Shapes and Geometric Concepts Tangrams These ancient Chinese puzzles help children to both visualize and analyze the spatial relationship of geometric shapes. They also Read More »
Electricity for Boys
Posted in Applied Math, College Prep, Home Economics, Middle School, Public Domain, Technology, Upper Elementary on May 12, 2012
Electricity, like every science, presents two phases to the student, one belonging to a theoretical knowledge, and the other which pertains to the practical application of that knowledge. The boy is directly interested in the practical use which he can make of this wonderful phenomenon in nature. With sections on such riveting topics as how Read More »
Mathematicians of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Posted in Applied Math, High School, Middle School, Public Domain, Upper Elementary on April 26, 2012
Available here are accounts of the lives and works of seventeenth and eighteenth century mathematicians (and some other scientists), adapted from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by W. W. Rouse Ball (4th Edition, 1908). This is not an ebook- but rather a website that has short biographies of mathematicians from the 17th and 18th centuries. They Read More »
