Green Options » fun and games http://greenoptions.com/tag/fun-and-games Posts tagged 'fun and games' Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:59:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Munch Your Math: A DIY Pizza Game http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/01/06/munch-your-math-a-diy-pizza-game/ http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/01/06/munch-your-math-a-diy-pizza-game/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:59:43 +0000 Julie Finn http://ecochildsplay.com/2009/01/06/munch-your-math-a-diy-pizza-game/ Sydney plays the pizza gameI have this weird thing about math, which isn’t helped by my tendency to do complicated-to-me quilt block calculations at 10 pm (A 4.5″ quilt block has a quarter-inch seam allowance on all sides. How many blocks will I need to cut to have a finished 40″x60″ quilt? I want to put a heart-shaped applique on every other quilt block on this quilt, NOT including the border blocks. How many applique hearts do I need to cut out? Yawn…).

Of course, I earned my math aversion by doing decades worth of really, really boring, irrelevant, and repetitive math worksheets in school, so that now I have difficulty doing relevant, interesting, not really that complicated math as an adult. It’s my goal, then, to keep math super-fun for my little girls. There are only so many games of Uncle Wiggly or 1-25 BINGO that an adult can play, however, so I’ve taken to DIY-ing my kids some math activities out of recycled materials. I made them an arithmetic matching game, and now I’m going to make them a fractions pizza game. Here’s how:

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