The Nuts & Bolts of Building a Math Fair- Some Assembly Required!
" My students LOVED the Math Fair! I have never seen all of them engaged for that long without there being a behavior or off-task issue. Can we do it again?" – Teacher " You should come back to our school again because your games helped me to understand more of the way to do multiplication and probably helped other people do more things too. " – Student I recently hosted a math fair for a K-8 school, 300+ kids. I figured this was the perfect place to test the feasibility of marketing math fairs to other schools, as it had several teachers I used to work with when I first did math fairs as a classroom teacher, so they knew (kind of) what to expect. I was also fortunate to have several of my retired friends (the rest of that staff) help on the day of the fair. It was like old home week! The plan was to have 7th and 8th graders run the 30 activities that I provided, and my friends and I would float, helping where it was needed. I figured it wo...