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By Deb Russell, About.com Guide to Mathematics since 2002

Ballroom Dance Meets Math

Monday August 4, 2008
I feel like I'm blogging a 'believe it or not' blog! I've always been a fan of integrating math with other subject areas across the curriculum, but struggled somewhat to link math with physical education, aside from the obvious scores and stats. However, apparently teachers are using a new way to teach math by translating patterns into choreography and then translating patterns into math. They're having success while making math meaningful and engaging their students, certainly the ingredients of a great math class. Check out Science Daily for more information on the Math Dance.

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August 10, 2008 at 11:40 am
(1) Guido says:

What’s wrong with teaching math by examples?
Math has always been integrated with other subjects and real-life events for many years. I just think that people today are looking for an easy way to learn complicated stuff. Math is not meant to be easy. Math is science and science is math and BOTH subjects require hard work to master.

August 10, 2008 at 11:50 am
(2) Frank Ho says:

I intergrate math with chess (www.mathandchess.com) and I hope by mixing math and chess, it adds more challenge and fun into math.

August 11, 2008 at 6:02 am
(3) Cassandra says:

Being a person that has always had trouble mastering math skills, I think integrating it with something else is a wonderful way of learning math. Not all of us are meant to be masters of math.

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