Something I noticed while looking at my calendar: There’s always a day or a week or a month devoted to books or literacy or something language-artsy. Sure, on March 14 (3.14) we had Pi Day. That was a tough one to explain to a lot of people, but it was mathematics-related nonetheless.
It may be hard to believe, coming from a writer/ELA teacher such as myself, but I just get the sense that math is getting the short end of the stick on celebratory days during the calendar year.
Keeping this a short post, I wonder what math-themed days I may be missing. And how do you celebrate mathematics in your classroom?
Share your ideas now! Maybe we can even start a worldwide math celebration movement right here at the Upper Grades Exchange.
Next up: math literacy.
I also think math gets the short end of the stick – but this comes from a math and science major. I try and include at least 1 math puzzle related to upcoming holidays and celebrations.
We always celebrate 1/2 way day as they are a little old for the whole 100 days of school thing. So we do a lot with fractions on that day. We also do 1/2 of our assignments and stuff like that. It is kinda fun and another way to celebrate math.
We celebrate math themes with kindergarten rotation activities. Each kindergarten teacher plans and implements a math activity and all kindergarten students rotate to five classes. So at the end they have experienced 5 different math activities. Our next rotation is Addition Rotation Day on April 24th. We have planned 5 different rotation activities for the students to experience.