Build math skills with creativity!

A creative approach to math can engage students in problem-solving as well as build number sense and other foundational concepts.

"Limiting the use of creativity in the classroom reduces mathematics to a set of skills to master and rules to memorize. Doing so causes many children's natural curiosity and enthusiasm for mathematics to disappear as they get older, creating a tremendous problem for mathematics educators who are trying to instill these very qualities."
Hartwig Meissner, Creativity in Mathematics Education

The Using Creative Technologies in Elementary Math guide provides articles, samples, and lessons to help you find new ideas and approaches that will work for your elementary students. Math is about numbers, but it can also be drawn, manipulated, interpreted, measured, and constructed.

In the Using Creative Technologies in Elementary Math guide you will explore:

A creative approach to building number sense and problem-solving
Connecting math to art
Creating visual representations of mathematic concepts

The guide includes lesson plans where:

students practice counting through the creation of a holiday counting book.
students compose images from shapes, describe their composition, and create their own version of the book, The Shape of Things.
students explore length, width, perimeter, and surface area, convert measurements, and work with 2-D representations of 3-D objects.
students create original artwork and manipulate images to demonstrate understanding of line symmetry.
students improve multiplication skills by skip counting and creating multiplication word problems.

The strategies and lessons in this guide will help you engage students in mathematical thinking through creative technology tools.

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