This is Mega Mathematics!
About this resource
- Appropriate grades
- K–12
- Subjects
- mathematics (general, algebra, applied mathematics, arithmetic, calculus, discrete mathematics, geometry, number theory, patterns, probability, trigonometry), thinking skills (higher order thinking)
- Provider
- Los Alamos National Laboratories
Legal
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Mathematics is a live science with new discoveries being made every day. Mathematicians experiment and play with creative and imaginative ideas. Many of these ideas are accessible to young children. Others (infinity is a good example) are ideas that have already piqued many children's curiosity, but their profound mathematical importance is not widely known or understood. The MegaMath project is intended to bring unusual and important mathematical ideas to elementary school classrooms so that young people and their teachers can think about them together.
This website is full of information, activities, ways to participate, challenges, and questions. The activities and information on the site are intriguing. The creators of the site suggest that teachers approach the topics with students in a spirit of mutual discovery. They suggest browsing through the materials, looking at the pictures, reading the stories and beginning to get a feel for what is appealing. The site authors suggest that viewers ask questions like, "What do we observe?" and "What can we predict?" Together teachers and students will be doing what mathematicians do by simply exploring the unknown and seeing what can be found out.
