Blogs

These blogs are great sources for original and thoughtful math activities.

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Fawn Nguyen's blog
  • Includes many subtopics, such as her blog on Math Talks in Elementary, Middle and High School

The Math Lab @ Room 27
  • A new blog with some great tasks and activities for K-5.

101questions
  • Can you perplex us?  This interactive site contains more than 101 questions to perplex, intrigue, and generate mathematical situations for K-12

Questioning My Metacognition
  • A great source for a variety of problems, including 3-Act problems for Elementary.

Open Middle 
  • Challenging math problems worth solving. K-12

Exit 10A
  • A great source of innovative thoughtful problems and teaching ideas for elementary teachers.

Steve Wyborney's Blog (I'm on a learning mission) 
  • Steve's blog contains a wealth of resources for the K-8 classroom. Most are in the form of presentations or other interactive resources. Topics range from number to geometry, and include visual thinking, estimation, and connections between domains.

Build Math Minds / The Recovering Traditionalist
  • Christina Tondevold blogs about teaching math with a focus on Elementary Math. Her website includes many engaging ideas and activities. 
Dan Meyer's blog: dy/dan
  • Dan's blog is a wide-ranging melange of philosophy and practice, primarily aimed at Middle and High School teachers, but includes some Elementary problems as well.
Geoff Krall's blog: emergentmath
  • This blog is dedicated to brainstorming interesting and dynamic math problems and projects with a Project/Problem Based Learning (PBL) models of instruction theme.  Middle and High School.

Would You Rather? 
  • Problems that as students to choose their own path and justify it.  Mostly for Middle and High School.

Don Stewards blog
  • Tasks for teaching math to 11 to 16 year olds, Middle and High School.

Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You'd Had
  • Tracy Zager writes about problem solving and imaginative thinking and teaching math with understanding.

Steve Miller's Math Riddles
  • A wonderful repository of riddles for kids of all ages, together with information on using riddles in the  classroom.

Mathematizing4All
  • Rachel Lambert's collection of math + disability resources
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Estimation 180
  • Andrew Stadel's blog with estimation problems for middle school - great for building number sense. 

Robert Kaplinsky's Site
Mr. Orr is a Geek.com
  • A variety of problems for Middle School including 3-Act Problems.

Graphing Stories
  • Another blog from Dan Meyer for Middle and High school graphing quickies.

Henri Piccioto's Math Education Blog
  • Henri is a long time innovative High School math teacher who blogs about a variety of topics, especially Geometry and classroom innovation.


Essays about Secondary Standards
  • Essays about Middle and High School standards and the math content behind them.

Teaching to the Beat of a Different Drummer
  • Brian Bushart's blog about Math and Curriculum, including his Numberless word problems for all grades with a focus on elementary.

The Student Centered Mathematics Classroom
  • Dynamic online games and tools for K-12. 

The Learning Kaleidoscope
  • Andrew Gael's blog exploring the intersection of Special Education, Math Education, and Disability Rights.