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15 Easy Project-Based Learning Activities to Boost Your Kid’s Math Skills
They might even learn to love math!
My kids didn’t love math.
But they loved doing projects. In the kitchen, outside in the woods, in the garden, and at our dining-table-turned-maker’s-space. What we were really doing was using project based learning.
Why? To make math come to life and address the challenges they were facing.
My kids were creative. They loved making stuff, discovering things, solving problems in real life… And using math along the way when they needed it to solve a problem.
Doubling a cookie recipe? On it.
Debating Olympic world records for speed? Calculating soccer averages and percentages? Check. They could do it for hours.
Building a trebuchet and calculating height, speed, and distance? It was hard to pull them away for dinner.
It wasn’t the math. It was the worksheets they didn’t like.
Math on paper can feel abstract to kids.
Adding columns of numbers, multiplying fractions? Boring. My kids sat dutifully and did their math problems… with zero interest.
