Math to the 7th Power

This  Factors and Multiples Puzzle from NRICH was a perfect way to start the school year with my sixth grade students. It is one of t...

Surveys are a great way for students to practice collecting data and then making sense of that data by create a graph to display the data an...

I created these pictures to give my students the opportunity to explore the areas of triangles, parallelograms and trapezoids in reference ...

I love to show this  video  of Laso Schaller's world record jump of 58.8 meters in Maggia, Switzerland. I use it when we start our unit...

I got this problem from openmiddle.com. All of my students worked on this problem very enthusiastically for most of the class pe...

I like to set up an exploration of 3-D shapes at the beginning of the unit on volume and surface area. Last spring I set up six stations usi...

This area model created some rich mathematical discussions in my sixth grade class