The Math Patch

This activity is to go alongside the book “Spaghetti and Meatballs for All! A Mathematical Story” written by Marilyn Burns and Illustrated by Debbie Tilley.This book was AWESOME at introducing the idea of AREA and PERIMETER to elementary students however I wanted to be able to use it for my middle school students as well. In 6th grade students no longer use the “square”/counting method for area and perimeter, instead they are introduced to formulas and begin writing equations to solve these ty

This is a hands on lesson that allows students to discover how many degrees are in a triangle by using their knowledge of how many degrees are in a straight angle (line). Students cut the angles off of the triangles included in the “cutouts” page and discover that when put together they form a straight line so – their angles also will add up to 180 degree just as in a straight angle. (I printed the “cutouts” on astrobright paper so that when the student glued the angles on the straight lines on