SamizdatMath

This is a detailed description of a "strategy" game anybody who can count up to 100 can play with their class and win each and every time. The rules will take about 45 seconds to describe, and within 3 minutes you will be able to keep an entire class occupied by the question, 'why does he/she/they keep on winning this game?" If you follow the instructions described in this activity, it should easily keep a class engaged, puzzled and frustrated for at least 45 minutes, usually longer. Your class

Here’s the idea: your students need practice converting improper fractions to mixed numbers (and yes, they are “mixed numbers” and not “mixed fractions”), but just doing one of those cruddy worksheets you downloaded off some cruddy worksheet website is just not going to cut it. What if converting improper fractions to mixed fractions could be a little engaging and, dare we say it, fun? Well, games are fun, and a little competition in the classroom never hurt anybody (although it should be emph

Straight out of Gowanus, Brooklyn, here are bright & beautiful illustrated subway cars that can be connected to make a train of number facts. NOW IN COLOR! I've taken these specialty created subway illustrations (available NOWHERE ELSE!) and re-touched them in beautiful color ready to be printed, laminated and cut. Keep them for a lifetime! Print out each set of b& w subway cards on a different colored card stock (to keep them sorted) and challenge children to a variety of different skip count