Bridges Blog Archive for Gifted

Every year the NRICH site from the University of Cambridge publishes an online holiday calendar containing a daily math challenge for December 1-24. A few activities require a partner and dice, but most are problem solving questions that could be used by a single child up to a large group.

Modify this number riddle activity to fit any grade level...

During the month of November, fourth graders observe a "Tumbling Triangle." This Calendar Grid activity depicts a single triangle in a different location on a quadrant grid each day as it moves through a series of transformations: slides, turns, and flips. Through the pattern, students develop language and concepts of motion geometry.

Want to have a little fun with magic squares? Try the following:

Enjoy the following story from Shelly Scheafer's first grade classroom in Bend, Oregon, then sit in on a little Q & A session with this incredible Bridges teacher...

In our teaching we encounter students who feel like the "odd kid." Realistically, each of us feels that way at one time or another. In Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein, we learn about an individual who spent most of his life feeling different.

The Fibonacci pattern of numbers, first written about by mathematician Leonardo of Pisa around 1202, is rather simple. In this pattern's sequence, a number is equal to the sum of the two numbers that precede it: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13...

What's so amazing about Fibonacci numbers? The fascinating places in which the patterns are found, especially throughout nature.