Archive for the ‘Math in Real Life’ Category
March 15th, 2010
by Sue in Math in Real Life, Parent Tips
5 Tips to Make the Most of Everyday Math Learning Opportunities
The web is full of sites that are designed to help parents teach math to their children. The DreamBox website offers parent tips for each grade level, and we include math games and fun activities parents can do with their children every month in our parent newsletter. The more parents tune in to the math [...]
March 9th, 2010
by Guest in Math in Real Life, Parent Tips
1, 2, 3, and More! 7 Great Ideas for Teaching Early Math Skills
A guest article by The Savvy Source
How do children learn through shapes, patterns, and numbers?
All those hours of fun your child spends playing with shape sorters, puzzles, and blocks, putting pennies into his piggy bank, and helping you make cupcakes. Guess what? He is absorbing early math skills all the while playing these games: geometry, [...]
January 29th, 2010
by Valentin in Math fun, Math in Real Life
The Mathemagician on Why Math Matters (and Other Cool Ideas)
The “mathemagician” — professor Arthur Benjamin of Harvey Mudd College— was on Stephen Colbert recently. This guy is so great! Look at his face while he is talking about math. It is enough to be convinced that math is something fun; he brings inspiration while he is talking.
Not only is he absolutely amazing at mental [...]
December 30th, 2009
by Mickelle in Math in Real Life, Parent Tips
Home for the Holidays? Count Those Coins!
Every year my husband rolls his annual collection of coins and donates the money to charity. Last night he had our 4-year old daughter, Elle, helping him for the first time. He knows (because he’s learned from me!) that rolling coins offers many learning opportunities for children of all ages. With schools closed for winter [...]
July 15th, 2009
by Tracy in Math in Real Life
7 Dream Jobs That Require Math
Every child dreams big. Kids want to be sculptures, veterinarians, zoo keepers, pilots, baseball players, dancers -- kids are only limited by their imaginations! As parents and teachers, our job is to give kids the tools they need to realize these dreams. Math learning is one of those tools, as shown by our list of 7 cool jobs that require math.
July 5th, 2009
by Sue in Math in Real Life
Insects, Circle Packing, and the Math that Underlies the Art
As I’ve said here before, I’m fascinated by how artists put math to work. Part of this interest stems from my own experience as the daughter of an engineer who majored in art; and part from hearing my son say something to the effect of “why do I need to take math – I’m going to be an artist/animator/cartoonist/you get the idea.”
June 30th, 2009
by Tracy in Math fun, Math in Real Life, Parent Tips
Fun Summer Math Games: Avoid the Summer Slide
Math skills can be hard to retain during summer vacation. Kids may spend hours reading books at the beach and doing crafts at camp, but when do they practice math? Kids who practice summer math will have an easier time transitioning...
June 23rd, 2009
by Sue in Math fun, Math in Real Life, Parent Tips
Education Vacation: Exciting Summer Math and Science Camps
Research shows avoiding the “summer slide” can have a profound effect on your child's learning development. You may already know that DreamBox Learning is a wonderful source for engaging math activities for kindergarten, first grade and second grade students.
April 14th, 2009
by Sue in Math fun, Math in Real Life, Parent Tips
Helping Young Animation Lovers Appreciate Math; and Vice Versa
My own son has a gift for art and is especially interested in animation. (And while his math test scores are high he’s never been especially motivated to focus on math.) The animated movies that younger kids love can be a good jumping off point for helping them understand the unlimited possibilities of learning math.
April 1st, 2009
by Tracy in Math Learning, Math in Real Life
Let’s Do Climate Math
If you haven't heard, sponsors announced this year's theme for Math Awareness Month - it's Math and the Climate! Held every year in April, Mathematics Awareness Month was started to make others aware of how math affects our world.
March 21st, 2009
by Sue in Learning Research, Math in Real Life, Middle School and Beyond
Does Mandating Higher Academic Standards Work?
There’s no question that a strong foundation in algebra is one key to raising academic standards, increasing the competitiveness of our future workforce and opening doors to broader career choices for students.
March 2nd, 2009
by Mickelle in Math Learning, Math fun, Math in Real Life, Parent Tips, Teaching Math
How I was Saved from the Horrors of Candy Land
I never liked this game, not even as a kid. However, I recognize the positive benefits of playing games with my 3-year-old Elle, and I could never deprive her...
February 23rd, 2009
by Sue in Math in Real Life, Start-up Culture
Math in Today’s Everyday Life
Every day now driving home and listening to the news, I try, like everyone else I imagine, to wrap my head around the kinds of numbers they’re throwing around. The scale of the numbers is incomprehensible. How meaningful is the difference between a billion and a trillion...
February 20th, 2009
by Byron in Math in Real Life, Middle School and Beyond, Parent Tips
Cowboys, Actresses, and Mathematicians
I recently came across two articles that really caught my eye.The first was in the Wall Street Journal and was a ranking of the best jobs in the US. Mathematician was ranked #1, with Actuary and Statistician holding #2 and #3 respectively.
February 19th, 2009
by Neil in Life at DreamBox Learning, Math in Real Life
Birds and Math
While I put out bird seed in my backyard feeder like many of you, I also have helped keep hummingbirds alive through five Seattle winters, traveled to Antarctica and the Canadian tundra to take photographs of birds, and help care for shorebirds and seabirds at a local aquarium.
The Christmas Bird Count is one of the big yearly bird events in North America. Counting birds in their winter territories establishes expected norms which helps private and public conservation groups develop appropriate species conservation plans.
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