An easy way to help children learn math? Get them in the kitchen mixing up variable pizza pi, says Ann McCallum, a Maryland mom, math teacher and author of "Eat Your Math Homework: Recipes for Hungry ...
Every child knows how to make their pie last: Eat half, then eat half of what’s left, then eat half of that…and so on. The part that’s left over will get smaller and smaller until eventually you can’t ...
Cooks use math to make beautiful food all the time: Slicing eight perfect pieces of pie or doubling a recipe requires basic knowledge of fractions, for example. But how many cooks think about using ...
The philosophies behind healthy eating and math instruction share interesting similarities that provide useful insight into the direction educational policymakers should take. Healthy eating means ...
CORVALLIS -- There's more than one way to study circumference, learn about fractions and make a graph. On Saturday morning at Garfield Elementary School, 32 local first- and second-graders used pizza ...
Pi, according to the Harvard Math Club. On Friday, March 14, the group sponsored its third annual day of celebrations in honor of the omnipresent mathematical ratio, often approximated as 3.14. The ...
For math nerds, Monday was a day when they could have their Pi and eat it, too. "It's Pi Day because the date is 3/14 -- the first three digits of Pi," said Howard Greenspan, who oversaw a Pi Day ...
The pressure for elementary schools to show progress under No Child Left Behind has come at a cost – less time is being devoted to social studies, science, art and music. But time for reading and math ...