Miss U

To celebrate the new year, present this unique challenge to your gifted math students. The directions are explained on the worksheet. Students will need to use math processes to arrive at the value of the new year number, beginning with their age number and moving through ten steps. Students will begin to see the magic of numbers, patterns, and the power that we have in arriving at the answers we need, sometimes through some trial and error, as they complete this New Years Math Challenge.

I like to start the school year introducing my students to what being gifted can be all about... the good and the not so good qualities that often come with giftedness. Odd Boy Out, a picture book by Don Brown about the life of Albert Einstein, provides a great look at a character most of us already know. Before this book, I never knew much about Albert's childhood. But after reading it, I felt that my students could really benefit from hearing about the struggles that even someone as brillia