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.
Math & Civics integrated lessons
- Data Analysis to Drive Civic Action
- Electoral College: Are All Votes Equal?
- Gerrymandering: Voting by Numbers
- Graphing Bullying Data to Create Change
- Stop Bullying with Data Percentages
Lessons & Activities
- Arithmetic to Mathematics: A Look Back
- Battle of Nashville 1864 (map)
- 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
- Leonardo’s Workshop: The Invention, Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci
- Lincoln The Road To Math This Century
- Making Myriopticons
- Math in History
- A Monumental Math Quest: A Math and Architecture WebQuest
- Past and Present: Using Baseball Statistics to Teach Math (student worksheet)
- Primary Source Trail of Western Migration
- Voting
- Why do we use quilts?
Teaching with the Library of Congress blog
- Mathematics and Primary Sources
- The Evolving Postal System Teaching with the Library of Congress blog January 11, 2018
- Historic Codes, Ciphers, and Computational Thinking, Part I March 20, 2018
- Historic Codes, Ciphers, and Computational Thinking, Part II – the Women Codebreakers of WWII April 3, 2018
- In Search of the Perfect Calendar May 7, 2019
- The Many Faces of Baseball October 11, 2018
- Measurement, History, and the English Language November 30, 2017
- Computer Science and Programming with Punched Cards (Part 1) December 2, 2015
- Computer Science and Programming with Punched Cards (Part 2) December 10, 2015
- From Flight to Discovery May 30, 2013
- Thomas Jefferson’s Measurement Problem January 14, 2016
- Thomas Jefferson’s Proposed System of Weights and Measures January 7, 2016
- The Time they Tried to Legislate Pi March 3, 2020
Articles
- Celebrating Pi Folklife Today July 22, 2014
- The Corpus Agrimensorum, Roman Land Law, and Mathematical Approaches to Archeology In Custodia Legis March 26, 2012
- Einstein’s Folklore Folklife Today December 18, 2013
- Geography by the Numbers: Staff Member Solves Mystery of Mapping Equations Library of Congress Information Bulletin May 2003
- George Washington and the Weaving of American History Library of Congress Blog March 10, 2015
- Newly Acquired Arabic Manuscript on Early Astronomy and Mathematics Library of Congress Blog January 13, 2016
- Using Primary Source Projects to Teach Mathematics American Mathematical Society On Teaching and Learning Mathematics blog January 20, 2015
Primary sources
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