Trouble reading this email? View it online.Like this!Tweet this!Forward to a friend
 
A monthly newsletter packed with math facts and fun.
 

Penguin Math

January 20th is Penguin Awareness Day. Celebrate and educate with these cool lesson ideas designed to help your young mathematicians learn simple numerical operations.  

  • Free Penguin Counting Mat
  • Penguin Bean Counters
  • Penguin Measurement Lesson
  • Penguin Clock

Also, meet Pipkin, the superstar in Anne Milbourne's book, "How Big is a Million?"   Elicia reviews this engaging counting book and the above math lessons in her blog.  

Check it Out ยป
  Penguin Awareness Day is January 20th Penguin Math Lesson Ideas
 
Books, quizzes, worksheets, flashcards, games, and more!!

Stove-Top Popcorn and Other Favorite Recipes

Celebrate Popcorn Day on January 19th with this fantastically simple and delicious stove top recipe.  Caycee also shares with us 3 other favorite recipes from 2014!

 

Ernest Shackelton: A Lesson in Endurance

Shackleton was an Antarctic Explorer who sent out a notice in order to recruit 27 men to join him on a dangerous mission to become the first fleet to cross Antarctica.

After Shackleton's journey went terribly awry, his mission goal was no longer to be the first to cross Antarctica.  It was now to save the lives of his crew members and get them ashore.

Use this incredible story and the plethora of rich lessons to teach your students about unsinkable character, history, mathematics, nutrition, geography, and science.  

 
 

January Trivia Question

What famous English author and playwright, best known for his children's books and numerous poem collections, graduated with a B.S. in Mathematics in 1903?


(Scroll down to the end of the newsletter for the answer to this trivia question)

 

Game of the Month: Peabody Penguin

Peabody Penguin is a free, online multiplication game. The player will navigate through many arcade-style levels by running, jumping and collecting fish.  Levels are completed by answering a number of multiplication problems correctly.

So get ready to practice your multiplication facts and dodge those pesky sea lions!

 
 

Treasures and News From Around the Web

 
American Heart Month

Get Fit as a Family!

Make a new goal to exercise as a family more often in 2015.

Blogger Mom Kristin Howerton tells us her 10 favorite exercises to do with her kids at home! 

Celebrate American Heart Month by making yours even stronger with these great fitness tips and links found around the web.  Thank you, Life and Kids!

Finally, Jen shares with us her favorite fitness video to do with her kids.  

 

Classroom Incentives for Multiplication Facts

Are you interested in what other teachers do to help their students learn their math facts? 

Skip on over to Head Over Heels for Teaching and read about the phenomenal steps this veteran teacher takes to make memorizing multiplication facts fun and exciting. 

These super duper ideas include: special flashcards, stickers, tickets and weekly drawings, and even a multiplication graduation complete with diploma and special recognition bulletin board, and more!

  Multiplication Incentives
 
Books, quizzes, worksheets, flashcards, games, and more!!

Multiplication Songs for Memorization

Do your children learn best through songs and movement? Corey Green sings multiplication facts using familar tunes. Check out this fun, rhythmic way of learning times tables!  

 

Happy New Year from Multiplication.com!

Just for you:


All our best,


Your Multiplication.com Family

  Free worksheets and math lessons from Multiplication.comFREE Flashcards and other resources!
 
Make 2015 A Great Year!

7,333 People Can't be Wrong!

Like us on Facebook for innovative ideas, funny ancedotes, helpful educational tools, free resources and more from Multiplication.com.

 

January Trivia Question Answer

A.A. Milne, best known for his beloved book character Winnie The Pooh, originally studied Mathematics before realizing his propensity and passion for writing.  Alan Alexander Milne was born on January 18, 1882 and died January 31, 1956.