The Math Explorer

• You dont have to be a math wiz to lead these activities. Youth groups and families have tested each activity to ensure that it includes all the information youll need to be successful.
• Youll easily have students playing, thinking, building, and experimenting with mathematics and how it works.
• Youll find advice on how to use each activity as well as simple, straightforward explanations of the mathematics involved. Additional information provides historical background and science connections to give you the option of extending the activities. The Math Explorer was developed by the folks at the Exploratorium San Franciscos acclaimed hands-on museum of science, art, and human perception. The activities in this book apply the hands-on teaching methods that work so well in science to teaching and learning about mathematics. This collection of games, puzzles, experiments, and projects provides appealing opportunities for practicing a variety of mathematics skills from problem solving and graphing to fractions and ratios and you can do all of them on a shoestring budget! The Math Explorer contains 24 playful activities tested and proven successful just like those found at the Exploratorium. At the heart of each activity is a mathematical skill or process. Students learn by experimenting by asking questions and finding their own answers.