Saturday, September 15, 2012

Get Ready: September 25 is Math Storytelling Day

Maria Droujkova made it up in 2009, as a birthday present to herself. September 25th is my birthday too, and I loved the idea. So now I'd love to get lots of presents - math stories you all write. Here's my post on Math Storytelling Day 2 years ago. (I must have been too busy last year?)

If you'd like some inspiration, read The Man Who Counted, The Number Devil,  or Math Curse.

Poems are good, too.




3 comments:

  1. I've read The Number Devil (select passages) and Math Curse to my 6th graders. Best part is with the latter, the kids make their own math curse stories and we comb-bind the pages into a book! I'll write a post on this as a birthday gift to you, Sue! I love your imaginary number poem! And I have to get The Man Who Counted.

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  2. Now I see we are supposed to write the stories ourselves - I'll give it a shot, but meanwhile here's a delightful one I found. Perfect for my class to have fun with fractions after a time of protracted struggle.


    A Fair Sharing

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  3. Great story! Basically the same story is in one of the chapters of The Man Who Counted, too.

    Every new story I see is a gift given, and I thank you for it. (But if you manage to write one, you will have given yourself a gift, too, I think.)

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