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2010

  • April 2010: Investigating Growing Patterns; Earth Day Math Activities; Using Who Has? Decks to Practice Basic Facts
  • February 2010: Valentine Math Activities and Problem Solving
  • January 2010: Snowman Math Activities; Winter Math Activities; U.S. Census 2010 Math Activities

2009

  • December 2009: Gingerbread Math Activities; Winter Math Activities
  • October 2009: Pumpkin Math Activities; More Fall Math Activities
  • Back to School 2009: New Classes...New Beginnings; Teacher Planning Resources for a new school year; Active Participation Strategies; Back-to-School Math Activities
  • July 2009: Teacher Reflection and Resources for Classroom Organization, Math Centers, Morning Math Routines, Differentiated Instruction, Use of Whiteboards & Math Templates, Use of Manipulatives, Seasonal Math Activities, Writing in Math Class and Math-Literature Connections
  • June 2009: Game Day: Providing Differentiated Instruction & Practice; Set Up a Math Game Center; Games of the Month: Contig, Pig, Skunk, Clean Up the Money
  • May 2009: Themed Mathematics: Ladybugs; Math Contests and In-School Competitions; Collect Data from Games; Incorporate Themed or Seasonal Activities into Morning Routines
  • March 2009: Writing Responses to Open-ended Questions; Dr. Seuss Day Math Activities; St. Patrick's Day Math Activities; Data Collection Activity: Cereal Toy Investigation; Online Cheerios Investigation Simulator; Organizing Data; Have Students Write Original Problems
  • February 2009: Valentine's Day Math Activities: Valentine Quilts, Valentine Symmetric Faces, Mathwire Valentine's Day Math Activities Collection; Black History Month: Freedom Quilts; Grab the Candy Game: Valentine's Day Version; Using Games to Promote Basic Facts Fluency; Place Math Games in Math Center for Extended Practice
  • January 2009: 100th Day of School Celebrations; Snowman Math Activity Collection; Last Snowman Standing Game; Writing in Math Class

2008

  • December 2008: Seasonal Math Games: Planning Distributed Practice of Math Facts and Skills; Mathwire Winter Math Activity Collections; Gingerbread Men; Gingerbread House Coordinate Graphing Activity; M&M Probability Game; Helping Students Develop Basic Facts Fluency; Using Climb the Ladder to Develop Number Sense
  • November 2008: Logic Number Puzzles: Developing Strong Number Sense; Fall 2008 Math Activities; Contig Game; Use Flexible Grouping in Math Class; Ask Students to Create Original Problems
  • October 2008: Seasonal Math Activities: Incorporating Strong Mathematical Concepts and Skills; Fall 2008 Math Activities; Fat Bat Game; Using Math Templates
  • Back to School 2008: Active Participation Strategies: Using Whiteboards and Math Templates to Assess Student Understanding; Back to School Activities; Teacher Planning Resources
  • July 2008: Teacher Planning Resources
  • June 2008: Escher & tessellations; Quilt Square Challenge
  • May 2008: Basic Facts Boot Camp; Who Has? Games; Game Day; Class Play-offs & Tournaments; Math Manipulatives Series: Dominoes
  • April 2008: Mathematical Poetry; Earth Day Activities; Math Manipulatives Series: Tangrams
  • March 2008: Dr. Seuss Day Math Activities; St. Patrick's Day Math Activities; Math Manipulatives Series: Tangrams
  • February 2008: Valentine Math Activities
  • January 2008: Mathematical Quilts

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New on Mathwire Archives:

2009

  • August 2009: Contig Jr. Game; M&M Probability Game Pieces; Online Resources for Writing in Math Class; Three Strikes and You're Out! Game
  • March 2009: Seussical Hats; Valentine's Day Treat Challenge Recording Sheet

2008

  • April 2008: Math Manipulatives Series: Dominoes; Domino Flash Cards 2
  • January 2008: Searching the Mathwire.com Site; Problems for Grades 5-8; Halfway through the School Year Math Activities Suggestions; Valentine's Day 2008 Math Activities

2007

  • November 2007: Gingerbread Man Theme Page, search Mathwire by Math Standards, Project Euler link for gifted math students, Roll a Turkey Game link.
  • October 2007: Math Routines Resources, Symmetric Faces Photo Gallery, Search Mathwire Activities by Math Standards, Math Songs and Chants
  • September 2007: Seasonal Counting & Addition Mats, Math Music, Online Calendar Math Resources, Online Math Dictionaries
  • August 2007: Back-to-School Activities
  • July 2007: Alphabetical Listing of Mathwire.com Topics
  • April 2007: Earth Day Math Activities
  • February 2007: 100th Day of School Activities, Open-ended Assessments for Grades 1-2
  • January 2007: 100th Day of School Activities, Coordinate Geometry Activities, Valentine's Day Math Activities

2006

  • December 2006: Data Analysis Activities, Tally Ho! game, Elf Glyph, Winter 2006 Math Activities, Kindergarten Word Problems
  • October 2006: Halloween word problems; Open-ended Assessments for Grade 2; Doubles Who Has? decks
  • September 2006: Open-ended Assessments for Grades 2-3
  • July 2006: Math-Literature Connections: Money, How Much Is Your Name Worth?
  • June 2006: Morning Routines Photo Gallery, Money Activities & Strategies, Decimal Place Value Template, Who Has? Multiplication Decks C and D.
  • May 2006: Growing Patterns, Magic Pot and Function Machine templates, Open-ended Assessments for Grades 3-4, Great Cookie Race, Data Analysis: One-die Toss, Data Analysis: Two Dice Toss, M & M Probability Game, Logic Grid Template.
  • April 2006: Literature Connections to Introduce Patterns & Algebra, Open-ended Assessments for Data Analysis, Probability and Combinations (Discrete Math) for Grades 3-4, Integer Games: Number Line Madness and Integer Showdown, Lattice Multiplication Templates, Bar Graph template, spinner templates.
  • March 2006: Mathematical Webquests Links.
  • February 2006: February Math Activities, Freedom Quilt Resources, Olympics, Valentine's Day, Active Participation using Math Templates.
  • January 2006: Pattern Block Open-ended Assessments, Addition and Subtraction Games, Multiplication and Division Games, Kindergarten Problem Solving, Open-ended Assessments for Grades 3-4, Shape Capture Game, Coin Flipping Activities, Ten Frame and Domino Mats/Templates , Ladybug Mat.

    2005

  • December 2005: Frosty's Estimation Station, pictures of student holiday projects, Game of Pig.