Okay, so I'm ready to roll tomorrow morning. I just realized that my youngest is having problems with perimeter and area. I found this out the usual way - correcting last weeks math sheets. So, I went to my school book shelf and was able to pull 5 math activity books for his grade level or close to it. A quick check in the appendixs revealed that only 3 of the books had area and perimeter activities. That narrows it down. But, and here's why I'm posting about this, the book with the best list of activites was my Family Math book. I just keep coming back to this one again and again! Here's what I'm doing for perimeter and area review/reminder: Family Math (by Stenmark, Thompson and Cossey) page 87 - Square Inches; page 89 - Expaned Rectangles; page 90 - Comparing Perimeters; page 96 - Perimeter Variations. I'll throw in a cooking experience with a little review via Math Chef (another great book I keep using over and over again) by D'Amico and Drummond page 122 -- Chapter 12 - What's the Area of a Brownie. I'll letcha know how it goes!
I did this and we now have it!! That's always the best feeling. And of course alterations are always made as we go along. In the end we used all the Family Math book ideas listed above with the exception of page 96 - Perimeter Variations. And we did use the idea from Math Chef only we used a pizza we made for lunch and measured the pan, transfered the measurements to paper and figured out the perimeter and area and then of course ate some yummy pizza!
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