Building a Town or City: Connecting Math, Science, and Social Studies in Grades 1-2
Building a Town or City: Connecting Math, Science, and Social Studies in Grades 1-2
The community a young child lives in and the buildings that are a part of it can be an important part of students’ lives and is ripe for mathematical connections to geometry...
Temperature: Connecting Math, Science, and Social Studies in Grade 5
Temperature: Connecting Math, Science, and Social Studies in Grade 5
Students interpret line graphs about places with extreme temperatures, learn about Matthew Henson's role in an expedition to the North Pole, and make line graphs showing the average temperature in a place someone in their family or neighborhood has lived.
Quilts: Connecting Math, Art, and Communities in the Primary Grades
Quilts: Connecting Math, Art, and Communities in the Primary Grades
Students investigate features of shape as they learn about quilts and quilters and as they make their own paper quilts.
Excursions: Activities That Connect Students with Their Interests, Communities and the World
Excursions: Activities That Connect Students with Their Interests, Communities and the World
Excursions are deep and rigorous math activities that support all students in making meaningful connections between the mathematics they are learning, their interests, their communities, and the world. They support the development of a vibrant mathematics classroom in which all students feel that their identities are welcomed and engage actively and joyfully in learning.