The Power of Creating Form

At our house we're preparing for Chanukah by making some new decorations. We made candleholders out of Gioto Plastiroc (read a product review). Such a mathematically-rich activity, creating the six segments for our star-of-david shape, and making them fit together to form the star. Visualization skills, so important in mathematical problem solving and geometry, are developed through hundreds of everyday experiences like these.

For more sources of math-rich activities, there's a list of great math books for kids on BigLearning.com