Course: Holiday Math
Description
From Turkeys to Christmas Trees to New Year’s Eve Fireworks, there are countless math activities to explore.
Covered Topics
Knowledge
From Turkeys to Christmas Trees to New Year’s Eve Fireworks, there are countless math activities to explore.
Covered Topics
- What are the best standard-based math activities with a holiday theme?
- What are the best ways to teach “holidays that matter the most” to your students? Culturally relevant teaching discussed here as well.
- What are ways to do cross-curricular activities with holiday math projects?
- What home connections are possible with holiday math activities?
Knowledge
- Teachers are familiar with creating engaging lessons around a theme and holidays that matter the most to students or given communities.
- Teachers can compare and contrast activities for standard-based efficacy
- Teachers will tailor math holiday activities to the needs of their students
- Teachers will create cross-curricular math activities based on holiday math projects
- Teachers will identify home connections and lesson opportunities for math holiday projects.
- Real life and current events are opportunities for standard based lessons