Living math is learning math from experience. This could be reading "living books" that contain math, reading math readers, doing hands on projects with math, doing interactive math or even keeping a math notebook. Living math helps make math fun and interesting so it "sticks" better. Living math helps the child work it out for themselves instead of just memorizing a bunch of facts.
Books for the Younger Student
Books for the Intermediate Student
Living Math Project Suggestions
- Keep an interactive notebook of your math studies.
- Read books that use math.
- Use candy manipulatives. M&Ms, Skittles, or any brightly, multicolored candies would work well. Allow the child to eat some of them as part of the award for getting things right. You can use these to graph how many you have, use them to add, subtract, multiply and divide, and use them to "buy" a certain amount with the "money" they have.
- Use pizza, pie, apples, and multi-sectioned candy bars to teach fractions.
- Set up a play store that your child can practice "buying" things with money.
- Use games and pattern blocks to teach mathematical concepts.
Living Math Links
- Living Math
- Website that has a lot of living math information.
- Living Math Book List
- Several books that work well with doing living math.
- Transitioning to Living Math
- A friend's site that talks about their transition to doing living math.
- Charlotte Mason Math
- Another site by a friend doing living math.
- OLRC: Math in Childen's Literature
- This page has a really long list of living books that have math in them.
Math Manipulatives
Helps for Doing Living Math
Great Book of Math Foldables
Math Games
- Dr. Mikes Math Games
- Printable math games for your students.
- Learn with Math Games
- Free printable math games.
- Math Board Games
- A few printable math board games.
Math Manipulatives on eBay
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iijuan12
Aug 4, 2011 @ 7:33 pm | delete
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iijuan12
Aug 3, 2011 @ 11:55 pm | delete
- Great ideas!
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Donnette
Jul 20, 2011 @ 5:37 am | delete
- Thank you so much!
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SnoopyGirl1
Oct 27, 2010 @ 7:22 pm | delete
- What a great lens. I will definitely be using this as a resource for supplementing my math textbooks with something to make the learning more engaging. Thanks for the lensroll to Math Manipulatives you Can Count on! I am reciprocating. :-)
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Garret
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