I've found some amazing blog posts on crafty things teachers and parents are doing with their kids, and some it is holiday-themed. Here are some ideas I've collected (click links for their original posts) that look super fun for Halloween, Christmas, Pi Day, Valentine's Day, and really any day of the week! Soma Puzzle Cube Build your own Soma Puzzle! Soma puzzles originally have 7 pieces, but this project that I found from Project Lead the Way has students combining 5-6 pieces. Use software or don't, students can use isometric dot or graph paper to draw 3-D images of interlocking pieces that form a 3x3x3 cube. Great idea for learning spatial reasoning, and you take take it a step further and incorporate how standard deviation of the smaller cube dimensions plays a major roll in actually putting this puzzle together (this project by Ian Waggoner shows how to do that). This giant Soma cube looks really fun to build too. Here's an article by Amanda Mickus called "Using Soma Puzzles to Master Common Core State Standards." Desmos Picture Ornament This is a link to a really cool Tweet I found from Lauren Deal, an English teacher, who makes simple ornaments of her students' favorite books. I thought it might be super cool if we took a picture that a student created in Desmos (maybe a final project picture that incorporated all the functions we discussed this semester?) and turned it into an ornament or magnet. Pi Day Activity: Radians Sarah Carter has a really cool activity on coloring radian angles in a circle. I'd like to see a variety in my classroom: 1, 2, 3, pi, 1/2pi, radians, etc.! I wonder if pipe cleaners would work better? Nat Banting's "Shape Finders" Uh, wow. Definitely making these for when my kids are in Kindergarten. May make a bunch of these and give them out to the little kids at Halloween (and candy too of course; I'm not a monster!). Directions on how to make them with an at-home printer are in the Tweet. Halloween Spider Web Decoration Plugging my own website here, this would be a cool task for students to do, and then decorate different places around the school for Halloween. Students get practice with Pythagorean Theorem, estimation, and possibly circumference (or half of a circumference). Octahedral Valentine Ben Bolker posted a Tweet showing the octahedral valentine he created thanks to the Museum of Mathematics's template. I imagine having students write mathy love things on them, like, "Baby, our love is like dividing by zero. It cannot be defined" or perhaps a student decides to ask their significant other to prom by writing several equations on the heart boxes that, when graphed, spell out the word "prom?" The dorky possibilities are endless! I would love to add more when I find other crafty things to do with students. Let me know if there's a crafty math project you're passionate about!
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AuthorTracy Conte is a high school math teacher in Raleigh, NC. Archives
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