Breaking Away from the Math Book : Creative Project for Grades K-8

Creative Projects for K-12

Lesson Plans

"3N+1" Problem	Drawing a simple figure from verbal instructions	Phone number algebra
A problem from the Russian Math Olympiad	Doubling and halving	Piggybank
A proof of the Pythagorean theorem using similar triangles	Drawing Triangles	Playing with shapes
A puzzle with 1089	Easy Squares	Powerball 55
Addition Board	Egg Dilemma	Pretty Gift Box
Addition in kindergarten and first grade	Exponentiation	Pumpkins
An arithmetical prodigy from 1899	Factoring	Puzzle with pebbles
An old merchant and his four children	Fancy Envelopes	Pyramid into fourths
Ancient Knot	Finding a fraction between two fractions	Pyramid of Cubes
Animations on the TI	Five-pointed 3D Star	Pyramid of Marbles
Areas and Borders	Flipping Coins	Quadrilaterals
Area and Perimeter	Four Bugs	Regular Polygons with Equal Areas
Average test grade	Four Cards	Related problems
Ball in a Box	Four Cubes	Right triangle
Bananas!	From One Billion to Zero	Sequences of composite numbers: A contest
Barrels, Casks and other Curvy Containters	From one to one trillion	Shapes of numbers/Shapes of numbers using triangles
Big numbers AKA Grains of rice on a chess board	Game of Circles and Stars	Six Pyramids
Block houses	Game of tens	Sixteen Square Inches
Building a scale-model doghouse	Giant Enchilada	Solomon's Seal
Candles	Halloween Hat	Sorting game
Candy Baskets	Heads or tails?	Spiral (grades K-4)
Capacity	Hexagonal Puzzle	Spiral (grades 5-8)
Chambered Nautilus	How many pentominoes?	Square and cubic units
Checking if a number is a prime number	How to measure an angle without a protractor	Square in a Triangle
Chinese Calendar Box	How to transform a rectangle to a different rectangle	Straw Polyhedra
Chords in a circle	Hyperbolas & Ellipses	Subtraction Algorithm
Circle, Square, and Triangle	Inscribed Triangle	Subtraction with Counters
Clocks and Time	Interest	Sums of two squares
Coins	Julekurv AKA Valentine Basket	Survival on a Hexagonal Island
Coloring lines in a hexagon	Kites	Tatami
Colorful Triangles	Leaky Roof	Tea Boxes
Congruent Triangles	Long-eare d critters	Temperature Conversions
Counting board for young learners	Magic Beans	Tessellating a Circle
Counting	Magic Square	The ladder and box problem
Counting to One Hundred	Making Animals by Cutting Polygon Puzzles	“The Laughing Cow” Cheese Wedge Containers
Creasing Paper Along Curves	Making Blocks From Four Cubes	The Practical Value of Proofs
Cubes	Magic Folding Cube	Three fourths
Cube with One Edge Sliced Off	Making Boxes	Three-Piece Puzzle
Cuisinaire Strips	Making an Involute	Tossing One Die
Cutting a rectangle	Maze	Triangle to square: A hinged dissection
Cutting a triangle	Mini Slot Machine	Turning a rectangle into a square by dissection
Cutting a triangle into two pieces of equal area and equal perimeter	Moons	Twelve easy pieces
Cutting an equilateral triangle	More dot-to-dot tasks	Twenty-four Cubes
Cutting Polyhedra	More old word problems	Two Old Problems
Deriving the formula for the area of a triangle	Multiplications "Done according to Adam Ries"	Two Shepherd Brothers
Diagonal of a Square	Nathan tosses a coin 20 times	Understanding Long Division
Dividing a square	Number Game with Dice	Unusual Containers
Division with remainder on the TI-108: Two examples	One-Third	What next?
Dogs, Cats, and Mice	Paradox of averages	What rectangle is this?
Dot-to-Dot	Partitioning a Square	Yin Yang
Drawing a rectangle	Pentagon Puzzles