Carole's Corner

Carole Greenes and Tanner Wolfram have created puzzle books for you. We will post new ones bi-monthly. You may download and distribute for classroom use.

Here are two more SMASH game boards (Game 5 and Game 6) with directions for your class. We'd love to hear about your experiences with this Jeopardy-like game. (cgreenes@asu.edu)

And more books from Carole and Tanner...

Factor Max is a fun game for ages 9 and up where players create expressions and identify factors and multiples.

Students identify a function that relates to given x-y values with Function Frenzy, a great book from Carol for grades 8 and up.

Curious about SMOOTS? Find out what they are and try some problems.

Did you know that California has the tallest trees in the United States? May 16 is National Love a Tree Day. Use fun facts to solve problems and honor these environmental treasures.

Dear Colleagues,

I spent a great many years teaching at Boston University. Near BU is the Harvard Bridge that connects Boston on the south with Cambridge on the north. On the Cambridge side is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

What is different about the bridge is the length of stripes on the road. On federal and state roads, stripes are 10 feet long. On the Harvard Bridge, that changed in 1958. What happened?

Check out the SMOOTS problem in Carole's Puzzles, Problems and Tasks to find out!

After more than 5 years in development, MathLinks (2nd ed) is available to pilot and use NOW. One of its features is "Activity Routines" to engage students. This month we share "Why Doesn't It Belong", which is an adaptation of the classic Cookie Monster song. Here are some notes and a reproducible to introduce the routine.

You will find more information about MathLinks (2nd edition) here.