E-collaboration via Math Edutainment

by Iris Mack, MBA/PhD
Phat Math, Inc.
Florida International University

For the first time in US history, the next generation of Americans may be less educated than the previous one. That's just one warning from a panel of experts in a must-read report that calls for a root-and-branch overhaul of public schools.  There are warnings that Americans face a grave risk of losing their prosperity and high quality of life to better educated workers overseas. 

Phat Math, Inc. – a Miami-based edutainment firm founded by Dr. Iris Mack – is working hard to tackle some of the problems in our education system.   Phat Math, Inc. conducts research, develops content materials and provides various professional services in the field of mathematics edutainment – the marriage of the education and entertainment industries.  Dr. Mack and her colleagues at Phat Math, Inc. utilize edutainment as a FUN vehicle to promote mathematics proficiency and financial literacy skills.

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• Phat Math, Inc. has recently launched a new mathematics edutainment social network – www.phatmath.com .  Users will find the following features on www.phatmath.com :
• FREE 24/7 online MATH HOMEWORK HELP
• 40 Math chat rooms for grades K-12 and College courses
• The ability to post math problems in different math chat rooms
• The ability to view math problems and answers in different math chat rooms
• Opportunities to win prizes by inviting your friends, teachers & parents to signup
• Opportunities to win prizes by becoming the most popular MATH BUDDY
  
  
• Interesting blog topics for students, teachers, parents and administrators.
  • More about the edutainment work at Phat Math, Inc. may be found at
  • http://phatmath.com/Author.htm (Dr. Mack’s BIO)
  • www.authorbytes.com/mamasays
  • http://www.myspace.com/phatmath
  • http://www.facebook.com/pages/Miami-FL/Phat-Math/10781156718
  • http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/content/apr2006/bs20060425_394597.htm

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Tips for teaching Elementary Science

1. Everyone knows that teaching clouds is not difficult, just boring. However, you can make it interesting by showing your students how clouds are formed. What you will need is a jar, a match, tape, black paper, a flash light, and a small bag of ice. What you will do is fill the jar 1/3 of the way full with warm water. Then you will light the match, hold it in the jar for a couple of seconds, and then drop the match into the water. Next, quickly cover the jar with the small bag of ice. Now you just shine the flash light into the jar and watch the clouds form. Of course, the black paper will be taped on the jar so you all can see the formation. You can explain at anytime how clouds are formed during this experiment.
   
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Lightning Lesson Plans

Complete Lightening Lesson Plan

Includes short story, classroom activites, exercises and information about lightening.


Short Story: Peter, Mia and Emily are caught in a lightening storm right over their house! Experience the lightening with the teens!

Information included:

History of Lightening
Types of Lightening (with color pictures)
Sprites and Elves - unusual types of lightening
Lightening Mythology
Lightening in Popular Culture

Lightening Activities

• Lightening Myth Buster Exercise
• Lightening Crossword puzzle
• Make your own lightening advertisement

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