Math Madness

Hey again! I am going into the geometry world today...I know freaky! We have been learning so much these past couple classes and I am so excited to share what we have been up to. Geometry is not my strong place in math but I enjoyed this activity for various reasons. This activity helped me learn visually what is happening when we talk about shapes, vertices and edges. We used gum drops to build a cube, triangular pyramid, square pyramid, triangular prism, and pentagonal prism. This is a great activity to engage your learners who are struggling with geometry and also for the ones who are aren't, for them to just have fun. Our class rotated in stations and building polyhedra with gumdrops was one of the stations. For me since I am struggling with geometry it helps me to see the vertices and edges of the polyhedra visually before moving on to a more in depth activities where we just look at the shapes. This activity allowed me to count the vertices which are the gumdrops and edge...

Hello everyone! Today I want to share a great way to study for math I just discovered. This tool saved my life for my midterm. It’s very interactive and allows the creative mind to express itself. It also is such a great way to connect all the material you've learned. So here's the secret...a mind map! You might be wondering what this is? It is essentially a brainstorming web that students most often use for writing but, I found it so helpful for math thanks to my instructor. We created our mind maps to organize the different types of data and graphs that we learned throughout the semester. The mind map was so helpful to relate what type of graph to use for what type of data. It gave me a chance to make the connections, while writing it all down and helped me remember everything I needed to know. I think it is so important to incorporate various types of learning styles in your classroom for each individual. A mind map allows creative students to branch out and see how they t...

Hey guys! Today I want to talk about graphing data, I know it’s so fun, just wait till you read about it! This in-class activity was not only a great learning experience, but it was also tasty. Our instructor gave each person their own mini bag of m&m’s and we predicted what colors we thought were going to occur the least and most often. Then we all opened our bags and recorded our data using a pictograph. Next, we recorded our class data using a dot plot. Lastly, we constructed another pictograph and bar graph to finish showing our class data. This activity was really intriguing because we got to explore different types of graphs while eating m&m’s and who could complain about that? I learned that pictographs are fairly easy to make, can handle large sets of data, and are visually appealing. Pictographs can be hard to read, like when we used a pictograph to represent the class data. On our pictograph each circle represented ten m&m’s and you had to fill the circle a tiny...