Another Hands on Math Activity

Thinkfinity is a wonderful free website full of great ideas for wonderfully engaging lessons. The search results locate relevant links to lesson plans that get students engaged. In a previous post I mentioned how the class went outside to measure our shadows to find missing lengths. I decided to dig a little deeper to try and find another hands on learning activity that would help re-enforce proportion math. Thanks to Thinkfinity, I am going to take some time this weekend and develop a formal lesson plan for the activity contained in the following link:  http://illuminations.nctm.org/Lesson.aspx?id=2774. It is much easier to think outside the box when you have great technology right at your finger tips.