Breaking Away from the Math Book : Creative Project for Grades K-8

Creative Projects for K-12

Lesson Plans

"3N+1" Problem	Easy Squares	Powerball 55
A puzzle with 1089	Egg Dilemma	Pretty Gift Box
Addition Board	Fancy Envelopes	Pumpkins
Addition in kindergarten and first grade	Five-pointed 3D Star	Puzzle with pebbles
An old merchant and his four children	Four Bugs	Pyramid into fourths
Ancient Knot	Four Cubes	Pyramid of Cubes
Animations on the TI	From One Billion to Zero	Pyramid of Marbles
Areas and Borders	Game of Circles and Stars	Quadrilaterals
Area and Perimeter	Game of tens	Regular Polygons with Equal Areas
Average test grade	Giant Enchilada	Related problems
Ball in a Box	Halloween Hat	Right triangle
Bananas!	Heads or tails?	Six Pyramids
Barrels, Casks and other Curvy Containters	Hexagonal Puzzle	Sixteen Square Inches
Big numbers AKA Grains of rice on a chess board	How to measure an angle without a protractor	Solomon's Seal
Building a scale-model doghouse	How to transform a rectangle to a different rectangle	Sorting game
Candles	Hyperbolas & Ellipses	Spiral (grades K-4)
Candy Baskets	Inscribed Triangle	Spiral (grades 5-8)
Capacity	Interest	Square in a Triangle
Chambered Nautilus	Julekurv AKA Valentine Basket	Straw Polyhedra
Checking if a number is a prime number	Kites	Subtraction Algorithm
Chinese Calendar Box	Leaky Roof	Subtraction with Counters
Chords in a circle	Long-eared critters	Survival on a Hexagonal Island
Circle, Square, and Triangle	Magic Beans	Tatami
Clocks and Time	Magic Square	Tea Boxes
Coins	Making Animals by Cutting Polygon Puzzles	Tessellating a Circle
Colorful Triangles	Making Blocks From Four Cubes	The Practical Value of Proofs
Congruent Triangles	Magic Folding Cube	Three-Piece Puzzle
Counting board for young learners	Making Boxes	Tossing One Die
Counting to One Hundred	Making an Involute	Triangle to square: A hinged dissection
Creasing Paper Along Curves	Maze	Turning a rectangle into a square by dissection
Cube with One Edge Sliced Off	Mini Slot Machine	Twelve easy pieces
Cuisinaire Strips	More dot-to-dot tasks	Twenty-four Cubes
Cutting a rectangle	Multiplications "Done according to Adam Ries"	Two Shepherd Brothers
Cutting a triangle	Number Game with Dice	Understanding Long Division
Cutting Polyhedra	One-Third	Unusual Containers
Diagonal of a Square	Paradox of averages	What next?
Dividing a square	Partitioning a Square	What rectangle is this?
Dogs, Cats, and Mice	Pentagon Puzzles	Yin Yang
Dot-to-Dot	Phone number algebra
Drawing Triangles	Piggybank