{"id":1199,"date":"2021-04-01T09:09:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothermath.com\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2021-03-30T09:23:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T16:23:26","slug":"math-for-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/01\/math-for-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Math For Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Math is fun! But it is pretty common place for us teachers to reduce math to a collection of skills to learn, practice, and memorize&#8230;which is not terribly fun. <a href=\"https:\/\/mathforlove.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Math For Love<\/em><\/a> is a wonderful website that provides teachers with the resources for making math the joyous endeavor it is supposed to be.<a href=\"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MathForLovelogo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1201 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MathForLovelogo-300x109.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MathForLovelogo-300x109.png 300w, https:\/\/theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/MathForLovelogo.png 663w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Games, rich tasks, and engaging lessons (all tagged by grade level) are freely available for students to truly experience what math is supposed to be: inquiry, exploration, experimentation, perseverance, delight, etc.<\/p>\n<p>My personal favorite task is the <a href=\"https:\/\/mathforlove.com\/lesson\/billiard-ball-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Billiard Ball Problem<\/a>&#8230;a classic problem.<\/p>\n<p>For grades 4 and up, they have a huge collection of <a href=\"https:\/\/mathforlove.com\/lesson\/fraction-talks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fraction Talk problems<\/a> that make an awesome way to start each day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mathforlove.com\/lesson\/fraction-talks\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1202 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fraction-talk-1024x815.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fraction-talk-1024x815.png 1024w, https:\/\/theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fraction-talk-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fraction-talk-768x611.png 768w, https:\/\/theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fraction-talk-1536x1222.png 1536w, https:\/\/theothermath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fraction-talk-2048x1630.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Math is fun! But it is pretty common place for us teachers to reduce math to a collection of skills to learn, practice, and memorize&#8230;which is not terribly fun. Math For Love is a wonderful website that provides teachers with the resources for making math the joyous endeavor it is supposed to be. Games, rich [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[20,72,50,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1203,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothermath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}