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I have decided this year to do more living math. On Fridays, we will be journaling, reading a living math book, and playing games. I have come up with a list of 30 math journal prompts to share with others. I am really excited about this. I am trying to make our math curriculum similar to the way Bravewriter is for language arts.
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Awesome! i think we may give math journals a try this year as well.We've done it before but did not stay consistent with it. I'd like to try to do better this year.
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Lisa!
Thanks for sharing -- I'd never even thought of doing that (where have I been????) ... the site that you link to in your blog post -- did you mean to go to the kindergarten page? I just couldnt' find anything about math stuff.
Also, when you say "living math books", can you give some examples?
THANKS!
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Mary,
I am sorry about that. I linked the math page and it just came up to the Kindergarden page. If you click the "teachers" link on the left and then scroll down it will say math journals on the left.
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I love the Living Math website! Thanks for sharing this, I'd never heard of math journaling before. Can't wait to try it. 
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Lovely ideas! We love our maths journals - one extra thing we have done, a bit at a time, is write a mathography - a maths autobiography.
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How cool Leonie. I forgot you use maths journals.
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Perfect timing, Lisa! We just got back dd's PASS scores (first time I had her tested in years) and she did terrific in math! One of the things I liked about PASS is they offer ideas to 'improve' the scores and for math they recommended...Math Journals!!!
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Mary, there is an awesome and extensive list of living math books at www.livingmath.net.
My kids are still pretty young but we love the Greg Tang books and Stuart Murphy's MathSmart series.
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JuliaT wrote:
Mary, there is an awesome and extensive list of living math books at www.livingmath.net.
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Thanks Julia! This living math journal stuff is really getting me excited for us to get started!
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GREAT ideas! Thanks so much! I'm actually not DREADING math with my daughter for the first time EVER!!! Wowsa! And that's something let me tell ya! 
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Check out Mathwire it has great info on math writing this month.
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Yes, I saw that - don't you just love Mathwire? I check it out at the start if every month, for cool ideas. 
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I'm hoping for a much better math year this year, and planning to take advantage of anything different and fun I can do with our daughter! Thanks for all of the wonderful ideas and links!
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You gals have inspired me! I just added a lo-o-ong post on journaling to my math blog:
Writing to learn math
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Nice job, Denise!
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Just wanted to say Thank you to all of you! This has inspired me and will be a GREAT new technique for my Math Challenged oldest Ds!
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You could easily turn that list of 30 into Montessori-ish Math command cards for them to pick through which one they would like to do...and self direct themselves and record in their journal.
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Marcia, great idea, 30 command cards montessori style. I love the math journal idea - thanks for sharing LLMom!
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Ck this out Evan Moor Math Task Activity cards
This is a little something that I am going to have my children work on together.
I love math notebooks! We have used the suggestions at the livingmath site in the past and my math minded son shares his enthusiasm with the others and they end up following him just to discover what the allure is....that is kinda weird, if you ask me. Whenever kids do work by themselves it makes me want to get out the thermometer to see what is up  Last year, my children mapped out our house and gave the measurements in cm and inches and plotted it all on graph paper. Give a boy a measuring tape and you never know how far they will go to make play their work...especially if it makes them look very "official"..
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