Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. The concept of a Math Trail was first developed by Australian educator Dudley Blane as a way to have students become active learners by finding the math that exists in their communities. This site aims to bring the excitement of real world math into the classroom. Students explore their communities according to a locally developed plan and create one or more math problems that relate to what they find.
Students explore downtown Boulder and write up the results from their investigations.
Investigations include Time Line and Shape Search. For the Time Line investigation, students walk along the BMT on the lookout for the years that buildings were erected, usually found on the building's cornerstone. Students are directed to find out about some of the special events that were taking place at or around the time that the buildings were being erected and to answer questions. The site also features a Technology Tutorial that presents simple ways to utilize technology in preparing entries, including a template for the creation of web page submissions. Also found is an online self-teaching guide on digital communication.