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Winter, Gingerbread, Snowman & Penguin Math

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Resource:Winter, Gingerbread, Snowman & Penguin Math
Provider:Mathwire
Summary:Age Range: 5-13 (about grades K-8, with parental supervision) What do winter, gingerbread, snowmen, and penguins have in common? At this website, the answer is math. This site archives an assortment of fun and challenging winter-themed math activities with illustrations, animations, and downloadable worksheets that meet the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' standards.
Description:When you get to the site, you'll see "December 2011" at the top of the page. [Note - If you visit this site after December, 2011 you may need to enter the names of the activities listed below in the search engine to find them.] Scroll down the page slightly to explore:

*Winter Math Activities - Click on the links to activities that were created for Winter in 2005, 2006, and 2007. Use an interactive program to learn about triangles as you create your own Koch Snowflake, explore making winter glyphs, make pattern block snowflakes, and discover math-literature connections.


*Gingerbread Man Math - Learn about measurement, symmetry, probability, glyphs, and play a gingerbread man game that helps students practice coordinate graphing skills.


*Snowman Math - Enjoy snowman skip counting, estimation, symmetry, glyphs and graphing, and test your addition skills by playing "Last Snowman Standing!"


*Penguin Math - Learn about Pascal's Triangle, play "Capture the Penguin" or a "Penguin Bowling Game" and discover coordinate graphing, use your math skills to solve problems about penguins.


There's enough here to keep you busy all winter long.

Enjoy!
Contributed by:Diane Flynn Keith, ©Copyright 2012, All Rights Reserved. Diane Flynn Keith publishes the rave-reviewed ClickSchooling® daily ezine with 12,000+ subscribers. If you're ready to jump-start your homeschooling, save time and money, and have more fun learning with your children, get your FREE subscription to ClickSchooling® now at http://www.homefires.com/free.asp.
C A T E G O R I E S
Orientation:General
Subjects:Math, Educational Games
Teaching Methods:Online Interactive
I N T E N D E D   F O R:
Ages:5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13
Grades:K,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8
F O R   M O R E   I N F O R M A T I O N
Web Site:http://www.mathwire.com/index.html

 


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