Creative Projects for K-8

Index of Lessons I Choose From List "3N+1" Problem A problem from the Russian Math Olympiad A proof of the Pythagorean theorem using similar triangles A puzzle with 1089 Addition Board Addition in kindergarten and first grade An arithmetical prodigy from 1899 An old merchant and his four children Ancient Knot Animations on the TI Areas and Borders Area & Perimeter Average test grade Ball in a Box Banana Barrels, Casks and Other Curvy Containers Big numbers AKA Grains of rice on a chess board Block houses Building a scale-model doghouse Candles Candy Baskets Capacity Chambered Nautilus Checking if a number is a prime number Chinese Calendar Box Chords in a circle Circle, Square, and Triangle Clocks and Time Coins Coloring lines in a hexagon Colorful Triangles Congruent Triangles Counting Counting board for young learners Counting to 100 Creasing Paper Along Curves Cubes Cube with One Edge Sliced Off Cuisinaire Strips Cutting a rectangle Cutting a triangle Cutting a triangle into two pieces of equal area and equal perimeter Cutting an equilateral triangle Cutting Polyhedra Deriving the formula for the area of a triangle Diagonal of a Square Dividing a square Division with remainder on the TI-108: Two examples Dogs, Cats, and Mice Dot-to-Dot Doubling and halving Drawing a rectangle Drawing a simple figure from verbal instructions Drawing Triangles Easy Squares Egg Dilemma (Part 1) Exponentiation Factoring Fancy Envelopes Finding a fraction between two fractions Five-pointed 3D Star Flipping coins Four Bugs Four Cards Four Cubes From One Billion to Zero From one to one trillion Game of Circles and Stars Game of tens Giant Enchilada Halloween Hat Heads or tails? Hexagonal Puzzle How many pentominoes? How to measure an angle without a protractor How to transform a rectangle to a different rectangle Hyperbolas & Ellipses Inscribed Triangle Interest Julekurv AKA Valentine Basket Kites Leaky Roof Long-eared critters Magic Beans Magic Folding Cube Magic Square Making Animals by Cutting Polygon Puzzles Making Blocks From Four Cubes Making Boxes Making an Involute Maze Mini Slot Machine Moons More dot-to-dot tasks More old word problems Multiplications "Done according to Adam Ries" Nathan tosses a coin 20 times Number Game with Dice One Third Paradox of averages Partitoning A Square Pentagon Puzzles Phone number algebra Piggybank Playing with shapes Powerball 55 Pretty Gift Box Pumpkins Puzzle with pebbles Pyramid into fourths Pyramid of Cubes Pyramid of Marbles Quadrilaterals Regular Polygons with Equal Areas Related problems Right triangle Sequences of composite numbers: A contest Shapes of numbers Shapes of numbers using triangles Six Pyramids Sixteen Square Inches Solomon's Seal Sorting game Spiral (grades K-4) Spirial (grades 5-8) Square and cubic units Square in a Triangle Straw Polyhedra Subtraction Algorithm Subtraction Counters Sums of two squares Survivor on a Hexagonal Island Tatami Tea Boxes Temperature Conversions Tessellating a Circle The ladder and box problem “The Laughing Cow” Cheese Wedge Containers The Practical Value of Proofs Three fourths Three-Piece Circle Puzzle Tossing One Die Triangle to square: A hinged dissection Turning a rectangle into a square by dissection Twelve easy pieces Twenty-four Cubes Two Old Problems Two Shepherd Brothers Understanding Long Division Unusual Containers What next? What rectangle is this? Yin Yang Return to Mathematical Sciences Home Authors' Notes Choose From List A Look at Math Contradictions in the Common Core State Standards: Problems and a Possible Solution Coordinating abstract, physical, and computational aspects of algebra... Equity and Quality in Mathematics Education Mathematics Education Institute March 16-19, 2002 Negative numbers in school mathematics - MathFest 2011 Partnership Mathematics Context Courses for Prospective... Partnership Mathematics Context Courses for Prospective... [en Español] PME-29, July 10-15, 2005, Melbourne, Australia Proofs The Language of Algebra University students' opinions about the mathematics they studied in grades K-12 Main index of Author's Notes

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