"When are we EVER going to use THIS?!" ~ amanda beth online

"When are we EVER going to use THIS?!" This statement... this one little statement has caused fear and panic to run through MANY a math teacher's veins! It's not like you won't use math in the real world... but sometimes as soon as that question is uttered we have a mind-melting-moment and cannot come up with just the right words to say.

So to help give you some real world, possibly out of the box thinking type ideas, my Book Blogging Buddies and I have come up with an idea that we think will be
A-MAY-ZING!!

Presenting..... math IS real life! A monthly REAL WORLD math blog link-up hosted by 4mulaFun, Fourth Grade Studio, Teaching to Inspire in 5th, AND MissMathDork,

So here is how this will work.... on the FIRST Wednesday of every month (starting next Wednesday, August 7th!) all four of us will create a blog post about how we have RECENTLY used math in our real life - not just counting or time.... but topics that your kiddos will be able to relate to at various level of upper elementary and middle school. Then at the bottom of all four of our blogs we will have a link-up that will sync between all four blogs. This means you link up to one of us and it will be visible on all 4 blogs!

So... what are you waiting for?! You have 6 days to decide what math topic has happened recently in your life and to create a blog post about it! If you have a product you want to link that APPLIES to the post, go for it, but freebies are more than appreciated too!

We are so very excited to see what everyone comes up with!!
Let the MATH NERD-INESS BEGIN!!!