Integrating primary sources into the social studies curriculum doesn’t take a quantum leap of imagination, but can you imagine how they could be paired with math? Numerous teachers who have gone through Teaching with Primary Sources programs delivered by TPS consortium members, have done just that. Intrigued? Check out their formulas for mathematical learning by reviewing the resources listed below. Thanks to Dr. Lucianne Brown, former Director of Governors State University TPS program, who helped source some of these primary source math teaching resources.
Lessons & Activities
- Arithmetic to Mathematics: A Look Back
- Battle of Nashville 1864 (map)
- Belonging in Our Democracy Citizen U lesson
- Civics & Math integrated lessons
- Eye Spy Math (geometry)
- Featured Source: Form & Function guided primary source analysis activities
- Finding the Area and Volume of Buildings Using Architectural Drawings
- Form & Function guided primary source analysis activities
- Huexotzinco Codex (using an Aztec manuscript to learn math & history)
- Learning Decimals and Fractions with a 19th-century Currency Table
- Learning from the Source: Abraham Lincoln & Me Activity Book
- Learning from the Source: Primary Source Trail of Western Migration
- Leonardo’s Workshop: The Invention, Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci
- Lincoln The Road To Math This Century
- Making Your Voice Matter Citizen U lesson
- Math in History
- A Monumental Math Quest: A Math and Architecture WebQuest
- Past and Present: Using Baseball Statistics to Teach Math (student worksheet)
- Voting
- Voting by Numbers Citizen U lesson
- Why do we use quilts?
Articles & Activities
- Mathematics and Primary Sources: The Evolving Postal System Teaching with the Library of Congress blog January 11, 2018
- Mathematics and Primary Sources: Historic Codes, Ciphers, and Computational Thinking, Part I Teaching with the Library of Congress blog March 20, 2018
- Mathematics and Primary Sources: Historic Codes, Ciphers, and Computational Thinking, Part II – the Women Codebreakers of WWII April 3, 2018
- Mathematics and Primary Sources: Measurement, History, and the English Language Teaching with the Library of Congress blog November 30, 2017
- Using Primary Source Projects to Teach Mathematics American Mathematical Society On Teaching and Learning Mathematics blog January 20, 2015
- Geography by the Numbers: Staff Member Solves Mystery of Mapping Equations Library of Congress Information Bulletin May 2003
- Primary Sources in the Science Classroom: Thomas Jefferson’s Proposed System of Weights and Measures Teaching with the Library of Congress blog January 7, 2016
- From Flight to Discovery Teaching with the Library of Congress blog May 30, 2013
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