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Creative Projects for K-8

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Index of Lessons Choose From List "3N+1" Problem Addition Board Addition in kindergarten and first grade Ancient Knot Animations on the TI Areas and Borders Area & Perimeter Average test grade Ball in a Box Banana Barrels, Casks and Other Curvy Containers Big numbers AKA Grains of rice on a chess board Candles Candy Baskets Capacity Chambered Nautilus Checking if a number is a prime number Chinese Calendar Box Circle, Square, and Triangle Clocks and Time Coins Colorful Triangles Congruent Triangles Counting board for young learners Counting to 100 Creasing Paper Along Curves Cube with One Edge Sliced Off Cuisinaire Strips Cutting a rectangle Cutting Polyhedra Diagonal of a Square Dividing a square Dogs, Cats, and Mice Dot-to-Dot Drawing Triangles Easy Squares Egg Dilemma (Part 1) Fancy Envelopes Five-pointed 3D Star Four Bugs Four Cubes From One Billion to Zero Game of Circles and Stars Giant Enchilada Halloween Hat Heads or tails? Hexagonal Puzzle How to measure an angle without a protractor How to transform a rectangle to a different rectangle Hyperbolas & Ellipses Inscribed Triangle Interest Julekurv AKA Valentine Basket Kites Leaky Roof Long-eared critters Magic Beans Magic Folding Cube Magic Square Making Animals by Cutting Polygon Puzzles Making Blocks From Four Cubes Making Boxes Making an Involute Maze Mini Slot Machine More dot-to-dot tasks Multiplications "Done according to Adam Ries" Number Game with Dice One Third Partitoning A Square Pentagon Puzzles Phone number algebra Piggybank Powerball 55 Pretty Gift Box Pumpkins Puzzle with pebbles Pyramid of Cubes Pyramid of Marbles Quadrilaterals Regular Polygons with Equal Areas Six Pyramids Sixteen Square Inches Solomon's Seal Spiral (grades K-4) Spirial (grades 5-8) Square in a Triangle Straw Polyhedra Subtraction Algorithm Subtraction Counters Survivor on a Hexagonal Island Tatami Tea Boxes Tessellating a Circle The Practical Value of Proofs Three-Piece Circle Puzzle Tossing One Die Triangle to square: A hinged dissection Turning a rectangle into a square by dissection Twenty-four Cubes Two Shepherd Brothers Understanding Long Division Unusual Containers What next? Yin Yang Return to Math Authors' Notes or Choose From List A Look at Math Equity and Quality in Mathematics Education Proofs The Language of Algebra Main index of Author's Notes

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