I find that collaboration between homeroom teachers and the school librarian can happen naturally in subjects like language arts and social studies, but other subjects like math can be a bit tricky to fit together. However, every once in a… Read More ›
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Math and 3D Printing in the Library
Many school librarians show their creativity by finding ways to collaborate with math classes. It isn’t always a natural collaboration based on the math content. A recent math activity we posted on Twitter and Instagram received a lot of reactions… Read More ›
Picture Books and Primary Sources: Lines, Bars and Circles: How William Playfair Invented Graphs by Helaine Becker and Marie-Eve Tremblay
There are certainly historically based picture books about inventions that I’ve read before, but none may have surprised me more than Helaine Becker’s Lines, Bars and Circles. I had never attributed the creation of the line, bar, and circle graphs… Read More ›
Create Your Own Graph: A Math Collaboration in 5 Steps
Recently, a second-grade teacher and I had the opportunity to work together on a project in math. Her class was finishing a unit on graphing and I recommended the book The Great Graph Contest by Loreen Leedy. The book sparked… Read More ›
Math Research in the Library
Last year, when my daughter was in 11th grade, she was working on a research paper for a local math fair. Her topic was Pascal’s Triangle. One night, I walked into her room and looked over her shoulder as she… Read More ›