Car Talk Puzzlers as Math Challenges

One of Car Talk's weekly features is theCar Talk Puzzler. The Puzzler is usually a math puzzler although some are language-based riddles too. As I was listening last week it hit me that the Car Talk Puzzlers could make great little classroom activities to get students thinking about math and language...

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Constructing Your Own Set of Tangrams

  Materials a rectangular piece of paper suitable for folding a pair of scissors a ruler (optional)ActivitiesA complete set of tangrams consists of seven pieces: a small square two small congruent triangles two large congruent triangles a medium-size triangle a parallelogram...

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Units and tens

I use cups to represent the numbers in my class an its so useful for my pupils, in these photos some of them are trying to represent numbers using cu...

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Learning Multiplication with Playing Cards

This is a fun game for teachers to incorporate into their teaching lessons and it is fun because of the partial element of surprise. Kids love surprises and the best part of this game is that the students will have even more fun learning because they won’t even realize they are in class. This will...

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Point System for Multiplication Tables

!-- Login | Rss--> You can teach the students a fun activity incorporating multiplication times-tables with this inquisitive game that includes the concept of a point system. Who doesn’t love a little competition? I think just about everyone, including children. So with that in mind...

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Area of a circle

Dear students , Watch this video and do the activity.   Aim To find the area of a circle of given radius by paper folding,cutting and pasting. Material Required Coloured Paper Pair of scissors Fevistick/glue Geometry Box Method Step 1 Cut a circle of given radius from the coloured paper. Step...

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