I’m up late prepping for my final teaching day tomorrow at Excelsior.  I’ve been covering the times tables for the past 9 weeks in a weekly 40 minute class, so we’ll end tomorrow with a cumulative quiz followed by games and prizes (I love competition and winning things). I was in the library today researching different living books on multiplication that I could read to the students.  I’d like to end the semester leaving them excited about math-not always an easy thing to do given the curricula that is out there.  You have to be creative when it comes to teaching, no doubt, if you really want to inspire the children.  I was flipping through my huge list of living math books.  I have a large binder that has tens of pages of math books listed that I refer to and try to incorporate in our home studies.  I use the books as simply a different way to present math topics.  Here’s an author I’d recommend you becoming familiar with if you don’t know him already.  I’ll be using his book Math for All Seasons tomorrow.

http://www.gregtang.com/