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

Creative Projects for K-12

Lesson Plans

"3N+1" Problem	Drawing Triangles	Powerball 55
A puzzle with 1089	Easy Squares	Pretty Gift Box
Addition Board	Egg Dilemma	Pumpkins
Addition in kindergarten and first grade	Factoring	Puzzle with pebbles
An arithmetical prodigy from 1899	Fancy Envelopes	Pyramid into fourths
An old merchant and his four children	Five-pointed 3D Star	Pyramid of Cubes
Ancient Knot	Four Bugs	Pyramid of Marbles
Animations on the TI	Four Cubes	Quadrilaterals
Areas and Borders	From One Billion to Zero	Regular Polygons with Equal Areas
Area and Perimeter	From one to one trillion	Related problems
Average test grade	Game of Circles and Stars	Right triangle
Ball in a Box	Game of tens	Sequences of composite numbers: A contest
Bananas!	Giant Enchilada	Six Pyramids
Barrels, Casks and other Curvy Containters	Halloween Hat	Sixteen Square Inches
Big numbers AKA Grains of rice on a chess board	Heads or tails?	Solomon's Seal
Building a scale-model doghouse	Hexagonal Puzzle	Sorting game
Candles	How to measure an angle without a protractor	Spiral (grades K-4)
Candy Baskets	How to transform a rectangle to a different rectangle	Spiral (grades 5-8)
Capacity	Hyperbolas & Ellipses	Square and cubic units
Chambered Nautilus	Inscribed Triangle	Square in a Triangle
Checking if a number is a prime number	Interest	Straw Polyhedra
Chinese Calendar Box	Julekurv AKA Valentine Basket	Subtraction Algorithm
Chords in a circle	Kites	Subtraction with Counters
Circle, Square, and Triangle	Leaky Roof	Survival on a Hexagonal Island
Clocks and Time	Long-eared critters	Tatami
Coins	Magic Beans	Tea Boxes
Colorful Triangles	Magic Square	Temperature Conversions
Congruent Triangles	Making Animals by Cutting Polygon Puzzles	Tessellating a Circle
Counting board for young learners	Making Blocks From Four Cubes	“The Laughing Cow” Cheese Wedge Containers
Counting to One Hundred	Magic Folding Cube	The Practical Value of Proofs
Creasing Paper Along Curves	Making Boxes	Three fourths
Cubes	Making an Involute	Three-Piece Puzzle
Cube with One Edge Sliced Off	Maze	Tossing One Die
Cuisinaire Strips	Mini Slot Machine	Triangle to square: A hinged dissection
Cutting a rectangle	More dot-to-dot tasks	Turning a rectangle into a square by dissection
Cutting a triangle	More old word problems	Twelve easy pieces
Cutting a triangle into two pieces of equal area and equal perimeter	Multiplications "Done according to Adam Ries"	Twenty-four Cubes
Cutting an equilateral triangle	Number Game with Dice	Two Old Problems
Cutting Polyhedra	One-Third	Two Shepherd Brothers
Diagonal of a Square	Paradox of averages	Understanding Long Division
Dividing a square	Partitioning a Square	Unusual Containers
Dogs, Cats, and Mice	Pentagon Puzzles	What next?
Dot-to-Dot	Phone number algebra	What rectangle is this?
Doubling and halving	Piggybank	Yin Yang