In this creative thinking activity students must determine how many combinations can be made when putting three beads into bags. To complete the activity students must create their own recording system to make sure they are not repeating solutions and they have found all possible solutions. Included in this resource are teacher’s notes with suggestions for introducing the activity, discussion questions, support suggestions, and a printable version.

This lesson is to teach the problem-solving strategy using the CUBES acronym. The students will use digital photos to create real-life story problems of their own and practice using the CUBES strategy to solve the problems they create as well as those of their peers.

This article helps educators answer questions about geometric thinking and the activities that develop it. It outlines the 3 levels of thinking about shape and space and the 5 phases of activities known as the van Hiele model. The tangram puzzle provides a vehicle for describing these phases and the types of thinking students achieve in each one. The article concludes with a suggestion about followup activity.

This brief article on Archimedes describes some of his practical inventions, his love of pure mathematics, and his quirkiness. Many links to related topics are included as well as a link to a printable page.

This lesson plan created by Tanner Dance at the University of Utah includes a video and plan for teaching dance, math, and money. The plan includes a springboard book, a warm up, and various dance/math integration activities.

This problem gives children an opportunity to explore patterns in a practical context and to generalize the results with a rule. Students investigate how many blocks would be needed to build an up-and-down staircase with any number of steps up. An interactivity in the hints shows the blocks transformed into a square pattern. The Teachers' Notes page offers suggestions for implementation, key discussion questions, ideas for extension and support.