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Love of Learning: Fun Math for kids

Math is fun.

Until a few months ago I never thought of being able to write. But ...

My career started in middle school, when I enjoyed solving problems in geometry, sensing the short circuit of thought that brought me to the solution: eureka!

Then a long succession of dark ages, those in which I did not understand a damn thing, the numbers for me had become a language incomprehensible ... University, blessed in my readings and forays into Italian literature, frankly I forgot the math ...

Then ... with the blog I opened up a world made of people just to teach their children something they start to learn with them, plotting strategies to make math more palatable. It probably is in itself, but as a nice piece of roast should be cut into pieces to be swallowed and digested, so is the math ... A world that has made me appreciate the work that began last year of my colleagues with their pupils: a laboratory course that has made the arduous interesting discipline in the eyes of fun for kids and the teachers themselves!

And now ... Now I got to play with Tangram, looking for the secret, to track the number kolam and dreaming of gold ... but also to a draft e-book that lay 4 hands with Pi Magna Graecia, the Professor of guest post I wrote last week (click here , all post on the math) ...

Love of Learning, as you know, is a means of sharing experiences ... significant experience in the fire the spark of the joy of learning.

I will begin

1) activities Bricologica . Thirty mathematical objects from build with your hands (ed. Galapagos), a book that I have been provided by Pi Magna Graecia. We started from tile-puzzle:

are built of squares of light card, and then measure the midpoints of the sides. Once you are marked with lines of irregular but not too complicated joining two neighboring midpoints. That's created the tiles are then put together: you create endless design possibilities! Just rotate, move or swap the tiles and the design change at all!

The same author, mathematician Ghattas, has also written a more theoretical text, but still interesting and understandable, Salads di matematica .

2) I libri di Anna Cerasoli . Io ho cominciato a leggere I magnifici dieci , anche questo prestato dalla mia mentore: un nonno in pensione approfitta di tutte le occasioni per coltivare il genio matematico del nipotino... questo è uno di quei libri da leggere ad alta voce ai propri figli!

Sono brevi capitoletti divertenti, conditi con il racconto delle avventure scolastiche del nipote, che si leggono davvero in un batter d'occhio! Il libro fa parte di una trilogia, adatta dai 10 anni, di cui i successivi volumi sono La sorpresa dei numeri e Mr. Quadrato . Ma ci sono titoli adatti anche ai smaller, as I count and are the number 1 ...

3) Activities to find on the web ...

I recommend some sites to consult, but if you want a longer list can be found between the Links, the page 4kids/4family ...

- SuperteacherWorksheets , where you will find many exercises printable divided by topic and difficulty levels. I used those on the villages, they are very nice ...

- Math Materials is in German, but fortunately the numbers are a universal language, so if you do not understand immediately, and you just open the links materials appear!

- Math is Fun, with the illustrated dictionary of mathematics and different ideas and activities divided by sectors.

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