Needing a little spot of peace in the crazy end of year rush? Typically, the Playful Math Education Blog Carnival is SO chock full of amazing blogs and information that I can’t get through a carnival in one go, there are just too many great rabbit trails. I’ve deliberately toned this one down to a bite size carnival to finish…
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tr.v. strewed, strewn (stro͞on) or strewed, strew·ing, strews To spread here and there; scatter or distribute: Strewing is an informal way to incorporate math learning into our homes. Strewing is a term used by home-schoolers, for the practice of putting interesting things in the way of your children, things they will pick up and investigate. It is an amazingly effective…
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Have you noticed fine yellow dust sprinkled on everything outside lately? Our deck and vehicle are covered with gold dust, especially after a windy Spring day. Recently, we noticed how showers of rain had settled pollen on the ground. All this pollen triggers sneezes in our home. Pollen is a powdery substance produced by plants during Spring, Summer, and Autumn….
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We all need to know what the weather will be like from one day to the next to plan ahead. If we’re planning an outdoor trip, we will need to know how to dress, and what to pack. Will we need an umbrella and gumboots or a hat and flip-flops? When planning a picnic, what is the first thing that…
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Weather maps use colours, numbers, symbols and lines to show us what the weather is, or is predicted to be, at a certain place. If we know what the symbols mean we can read the weather map. Some common symbols that we will need to know in order to understand the map are: H – when we see the letter…
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This carnival is all about the world around you and the math we encounter every day. It’s time to discover, explore and investigate our world. Come and have fun with us! Be prepared to find a rabbit trail or two, so don’t forget to bookmark this page, then you can come back and explore more. Playful Math Education Carnival is…
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This week for the 40 week math challenge we were contemplating rotational symmetry. I love to look around in our world and see where we can find real examples of math in nature. We first needed to define what is meant by ‘rotational symmetry’ before we could even begin to look for examples. Once we thought we had a grasp…
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Over the Easter break we enjoyed a trip to the Bendigo Planetarium, it is part of the Science and Technology Discovery Center. It was fun to sit in a beanbag – filled room and gaze at the ceiling, while our guide took us on a trip into the night sky. The children recognised some of the common star constellations that…
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A simple puzzle with more than 6000 solutions, challenging enough for an expert and simple enough for a child, tactile and visually impressive? What else but Tangrams! I love playing with tangram pieces, I hope that after exploring some of the possibilities they present, you will enjoy them too and add them to your math teaching. Here you will…
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“Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, Under the shade of a coolabah tree And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled You’ll come a Waltzing Matilda with me.” Banjo Paterson (Waltzing Matilda) Would you like to spend time by the Billabong? Listening to the frogs and admiring the beautiful plants? Well, this post is…
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