Pinterest, with tons of searchable activities and lesson plans, is the perfect place to gather ideas for your classroom. Monica Burns recommends the following Pinterest pages for math teachers:
■ Math Games—This collaborative math games board features hundreds of pins for a variety of math games and activities.
■ Geometry Activities—Mr. Elementary Math has pinned lots of geometry classroom activities, including hands-on activities.
■ Math Food—This board from the Center of Math is full of ideas for showing how math connects to our favorite foods. There’s even a periodic table of desserts.
■ Colorful Math Lessons—Crayola has collected over a hundred pins to different math activities, many of which use crayons to teach lessons on a wide range of topics.
■ Addition Activities—United Teaching features tons of activities and ideas for math centers, from using manipulatives to new ways to use pocket charts and playing cards.
■ Math Outdoors—This page from The Learning Lady is a great spot to gather inspiration for new math activities to bring into your classroom—and outdoors.
■ Chromebooks in the Math Classroom—This board includes ideas for using Chromebooks during math instruction and links to blog posts and infographics.
